Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen

Lecture by Prof. Xiong Yuegen (Jacobs University Bremen, Beijing University): Individual Power and the Politics of Welfare in China: Bringing Persons Back in Institutional Analysis

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ Raum 0.606 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14,Göttingen

During the past decade, there has been a growing interest in social policy – making and welfare studies in post – socialist China. Compared to many advanced democracies, the role of Chinese leaders in the social policy – making and welfare politics is extraordinarily influential. This issue has not been adequately studied yet. Employing a […]

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Simon C. Partner (Duke University): Transformative Spaces of 19th Century East Asia: A Japanese Merchant’s Experience of Treaty Port Yokohama

Verfügungsgebäude, VG Raum 3.102 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7,Göttingen,Deutschland

Following the experiences of one merchant, a farmer from Kōshū province (present-day Yamanashi prefecture) who left his village to open a trading venture in Yokohama in 1859, the presentation will examine the merchant communities of Yokohama during roughly the first decade of its existence, 1859-1873.

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Jin Guangyao (Fudan University): China in 1968: From The Red Guard Movement to the Sent Down Youth Movement

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ Raum 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14,Göttingen,Deutschland

2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution. In order to launch the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong mobilized the Red Guard (young students) to rebel against the class enemy, therefore the Red Guard played a vanguard role in the Cultural Revolution. In 1968, however, Mao ended the Red Guard movement and sent young students […]