This talk will examine some key issues that concern scholars who attempt to figure out the historical roots of our contemporary problems. One the one hand, some scholars have been debating the intellectual and religious cause of the ecological crisis and the extinction of animal species across the global village. For instance, Lynn White Jr. […]

The summer school, which is mainly financed generously by Volkswagenstiftung and supported by AKI, Fachverband Chinesisch and ZeUS Göttingen, is directed at interested young scientists from the fields of Chinese Linguistics and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in the German-speaking world; it aims to introduce empirical research methods and theories from relevant disciplines (empirical […]

Prof. BI Minghui, “Traditional and Modern Music in China: The Chinese Auditory Structure and its Transformation in Modern Times” With live singing on, the lecture aims to share and discuss the following topics through important and interesting repertories: 1. Is language the basis of transformation for Chinese music? 2. Literati music in modern contexts 3. […]