Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen

OAS Lecture (co-hosted by AKI): Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC Irvine): “China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War”

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ Raum 0.609 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14,Göttingen,Deutschland

This illustrated lecture, entitled “China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War,” revisits the anti-Christian uprising and international invasion that convulsed the Qing Empire during the final year of the nineteenth century, paying particular attention to the varied ways these events were understood in different places at the […]

Francois Gipouloux (CNRS). “Maritime trade expansion in late Ming China”

Theologicum Raum 0.134 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2,Göttingen,Deutschland

Maritime trade during the late Ming was characterised by the intermingling of tributary trade, private trade and piracy. The establishment of the ban on maritime trade (海禁 haijin) gave way to a scarcity of goods entering China and to a great profitability of smuggling activities. While the ban on maritime trade never succeded in eliminating […]