News Archive 2018

CCT is delighted to welcome Prof. Stephan Ortmann (City University of Hong Kong) for a second visit to CCT on July 9 for a workshop in which we use film, images and other texts to explore the erosion of Hong Kong's freedoms in the past several years.

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Elisa Tamburo will give the tenth lecture in the Novissima Sinica series on the question of what 'home' means for people who fled to Taiwan from China after the civil war in the late 1940s and who have, since the 1990s, been uprooted again with the demolition of their homes.

More information here.

From July 2-4, Chinese film-maker and activist FAN Popo is visiting CCT to show his films and engage in discussion about the films and the issues they address: among others feminism, LGBTQ rights, and political, social and familial attitudes to gender, sexuality and sexual identity.

This series is organised in collaboration with the Center for Gender and Diversity Research.

The first film, The VaChina Monologues, which looks at performances in China of the well-known play, The Vagina Monologues, will be shown on Monday July 2. It will be followed by a discussion for which Fan Popo will be joined by Ingrid Hotz-Davies (Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Gender and Diversity Research, University of Tübingen).

Tuesday, July 3, we will be showing two related films - Mama Rainbow and Papa Rainbow, which look at the relationships between parents and their LGBTQ children. Dr. Gero Bauer (Centre for Gender and Diversity Research, University of Tübingen) and Dr. Xiang Zairong (University of Potsdam) join the discussion.

In the third and final event on July 4, there will be a panel discussion on questions of gender and sexuality within the wider regional context, looking not only at China, but also at South Korea and Taiwan. Joining Fan Popo on the panel will be Dr. Ji-yoon AN (University of Tübingen), Prof. TSENG Yu-chin (University of Tübingen) and Dr. Xiang Zairong (University of Potsdam).

Die zweite Veranstaltung unserer neuen Reihe "Brennpunkt Asien" findet am 25.06.2018 um 18 Uhr c.t. in der Alten Aula der Universität Tübingen statt.

Die jüngsten Entwicklungen auf der koreanischen Halbinsel und die Gipfeltreffen von Kim Jong-un mit den Staatschefs von Südkorea, China und den USA zogen versöhnliche Entwicklung mit sich und daher möchten wir Sie zu unserer Podiumsdiskussion einladen.

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A Trade War between the USA and China: Consequences for Europe and the World

In the first panel discussion in CCT’s new Brennpunkt Asien event series, experts from the fields of politics, economics and business assess the likely outcomes of ongoing US-China trade negotiations, asking, whether – if negotiations fail – the current dispute might escalate into a full-blown trade war and what the consequences might be for the East Asian region, Europe and the rest of the world.

The event will be held on June 5, 18:15 at CCT, Hintere Grabenstr. 26

Mehr Informationen zu unserer neuen Reihe finden Sie hier.

On June 4, Prof. Mark Thompson (City University of Hong Kong) will lead a workshop on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's ostensible turn away from the US towards a closer relationship with the PRC and what impact this might have on the region.

The workshop begins at 18:15 and will be held in English.

More information here

In CCT's second ThinkIN China broadcast, Prof. Liu Ying Lowrey looks at the ways in which internet giant Alibaba has promoted e-commerce as a model for China's rural development. She explores the ways in which grassroots entrepreneurship has been fostered and asks whether this model can be replicated in other rural settings.

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CCT-Director Prof. Dr. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer was recently interviewd by the online Chinese newspaper "Chinanews" about the current state of cultural exchange between China and Germany.

You can read the full interview here.

China's rapid economic growth has been associated with a host of problems, ranging from labour exploitation to corruption and environmental destruction. A number of Chinese companies, however, have begun to take corporate social responsibility and ethical management seriously, some of them drawing on traditional Chinese philosophy and culture to formulate new approaches to doing business.

In this workshop, Stephan Rothlin and Matthias Niedenführ will outline the ideas and beliefs that drive these entrepreneurs and the ways in which several companies have concretely applied them in the work place and on the market.

Der Workshop findet am 09. Mai um 18 Uhr c.t. im CCT statt.

CCT has been awarded a three-year grant by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in an initiative to promote China competence in German universities. CCT’s project, ChinaForum Tübingen (CFT), is based on the premise that China competence is fostered not only through teaching Chinese language skills, but also through the identification, linking and updating of existing China expertise within and beyond the University of Tübingen. The project therefore supports the teaching and learning of Chinese language and China knowledge, while also building intra- and trans-institutional networks to routinise communication and share expertise which will facilitate the implementation of China competence measures and benefit all network participants. In this way, ChinaForum Tübingen aims to foster a new awareness of China as an academic and business partner.

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ThinkIN China is a discussion platform established in 2010 that organises/hosts/holds
events on topics concerning contemporary China, bringing local experts and a foreign
audience together in the heart of academic life in Beijing. In our new ThinkIN
China@CCT event series, we bring these insights from the best ThinkIN China
experts to our Tübingen audience through video and webcast presentations, offering
commentary and a discussion forum.

In the first broadcast, Kaiser Kuo, currently host of the highly influential Sinica Podcast
and former spokesperson for Baidu China, looks at the 1,000 people who
shape China's image in the Anglophone world and, who therefore have a significant
impact on how the West views China. He points out that this group of individuals have
profound ideological, historical and political beliefs which can lead them sometimes
unconsciously to distort the real image of China.
Matthias Niedenführ, co-founder of ThinkIN China and vice-director of CCT comments
on Kaiser‘s presentation.

To launch the summer semester, renowned musician, MAO Yi, is giving a concert at CCT on Tuesday, April 17 at 18:15. He will be playing the guqin, a classical Chinese instrument.

More information here.

CCT and the university library are hosting an exhibition about the life and work of Walter Liebenthal(1886-1982), a Jewish Indologist and Sinologist who fled to China from Germany during the Nazi years. A pioneer of the study of Chinese Buddhism, he taught and researched at the University of TÜbingen during the last two decades of his life.

The exhibition will be at the University library's Bonatzbau and the opening will be held on April 5, 16:00-17:15 at the library's historischer Lesesaal.

This semester, in addition to our ongoing lecture series, seminars and workshops, we launch two new formats: Brennpunkt Asien (Focus Asia) and ThinkIN China@CCT. Brennpunkt Asien consists of panel discussions in which both academics and other professional experts address 'hot topics' concerning China and its neighbours. In ThinkIN China@CCT, we broadcast talks from the ThinkIN China events held monthly at the Bridge Cafe in Beijing, which brings the voices of Chinese experts to the foreign community. We are also holding a number of cultural events, including a guqin concert and a series of films on gender and sexuality made by Chinese director Fan Popo.

The full schedule is listed in the poster below.

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CCT Director Prof. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer will deliver the first talk in ThinkIn China's 2018 monthly series. In a wide-ranging lecture covering past, present and future, he explores China's historical identity and its potential as a role model for modernisation. The lecture will be given at the Bridge Cafe in Wudaokou, Beijing.

ThinkIN China was co-founded by CCT Vice-Director Matthias Niedenführ and is supported by CCT, the Karl Schlecht Foundation and the Torino World Affairs Institute.

China's role in Africa and Global South connections will be explored in a two-day winter school featuring speakers from China, South Africa, Germany and Britain. The event is open to the public. Please contact Dr. LIU Yihui for more information: yihui.liu(at)guest.uni-tuebingen.de

Venue: Rm. 215, Brechtbau, Wilhelmstr. 50

CCT Director, Prof. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, joins Prof. Claus Dierksmeier (Director, Global Ethic Institute Tübingen) and Prof. Erdal Toprakyaran (Director, Center for Islamic Theology, Univ. Tübingen) for a panel discussion on similarities across Muslim, Asian and Western cultures, asking whether there are transcultural concepts of spiritual freedom which might form the basis of a global ethos.

Venue: Weltethos Institut, Hintere Grabenstr. 26, Tübingen 72070

On Feb. 12, CCT hosted a Chinese New Year celebration with the student club of the Chinese Studies Department and the Tübingen Chinese Students Association. The New Year was celebrated in the traditional Chinese way - making and eating dumplings!

Herr Peter Kuhfus (Akademischer Rat a.D., Universität Tübingen) will give the eighth lecture in CCT’s Novissima Sinica series on Monday Jan. 29. In this wide-ranging lecture, he will explore and evaluate China’s possible futures - projected, imagined and hoped-for.

See here for more information.