Aktuelle Veranstaltungen / Current Events
GCS Colloquium Summer 2024
Join the Chair of Greater China Studies for a fruitful summer semester, with vibrant discussions on state-of-the-art research projects and insights on the region.
You can download the programme here.
Blockseminar von Prof. Tseng Yen-fen
Labour Migration to and from Taiwan
Prof Tseng Yen-fen vom Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University, Taipei, ist als Gastwissenschaftlerin am European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (CCKF-ERCCT) in Tübingen, und wird am Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, 18. – 20. Juni 2024, ein Blockseminar unterrichten mit dem Titel:
Labour Migration to and from Taiwan
Der öffentliche Gastvortrag am 19. Juni ist Teil des Seminar-Programms!
Genauer Seminartermin:
Dienstag bis Donnerstag, 18. – 20. Juni 2024: 9 – 18 Uhr, Do. 9 – 14 Uhr
Ort der Veranstaltung ist Raum 135 des CCKF-ERCCT, Keplerstrasse 2, 1. OG.
Das Seminar wird mit 4 bzw. 8 ECTS-Punkten kreditiert und steht allen Masterstudierenden der Studiengänge M.A. Sinologie/Chinese Studies und M.A. Politik und Gesellschaft Ostasiens offen.
Schriftliche Voranmeldung bitte bis zum 20.05.2023 an stefan.braig@uni-tuebingen.de
Blockseminar von Prof. Huang Yu-Ling
Society, Law and Reproductive Medicine in Taiwan
Prof. Huang Yu-ling, Soziologin von der School of Medicine der National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ist als Gastwissenschaftlerin am European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (CCKF-ERCCT) in Tübingen, und wird am Donnerstag, Freitag und Samstag, 20.- 22. Juni 2024, ein Blockseminar unterrichten mit dem Titel:
Society, Law and Reproductive Medicine in Taiwan
Genauer Seminartermin:
Donnerstag bis Samstag, 20. – 22. Juni 2024: 9 – 18 Uhr, Sa. 9 – 14 Uhr
Ort der Veranstaltung ist Raum 135 des CCKF-ERCCT, Keplerstrasse 2, 1. OG.
Das Seminar wird mit 4 bzw. 8 ECTS-Punkten kreditiert und steht allen Masterstudierenden der Studiengänge M.A. Sinologie/Chinese Studies und M.A. Politik und Gesellschaft Ostasiens offen.
Schriftliche Voranmeldung bitte bis zum 05.06.2024 an stefan.braig@uni-tuebingen.de
Frühere Veranstaltungen
Winter Term 2023/24
Greater China and Taiwan Colloquium
You can download the programme here.
| Date | Time | Speaker and Topic | Venue | |
Nov. 9 Thursday | 6-8 pm | Prof. Alex Tan Taiwan: The Party System of a Young Consolidated Democracy | Keplerstr. 2 SR 1.81 | |
Nov. 27 Thursday | 6-8 pm | Dr. Sheu Jyh-Shyang Grey zone activities and asymmetric warfare - Taiwan's defence dilemma | Keplerstr. 2 HS 001 | |
Nov. 30 Thursday | 6-8 pm | Dr. Di Qing Transcultural exploration of Taiko: A comparative aesthetics study between Europe and Taiwan | Keplerstr. 2 SR 1.81 | |
Dec. 6 Wednesday | 6-8 pm | Prof. Alex Tan Exploratory study of party polarization: Taiwan in a comparative perspective | Keplerstr. 2 SR 1.81 | |
Dec. 7 Thursday | 6-8 pm | Prof. Alex Tan Taiwanese Youth Voting for Taiwan: Studying Identity Formation in Taiwanese Youth and its Impact on Voting Patterns in Taiwan | Keplerstr. 2 SR 1.81 | |
Dec. 14 Thursday | 6-8 pm | Prof. Mark Thompson The impact of China's rise on contemporary South East Asia | Keplerstr. 2 SR 1.81 | |
Jan. 11 Thursday | 6-8 pm | Prof. Lin Shu-Hui Discourses in Taiwan Travel Literature during the Cold War Era | Keplerstr. 2 SR 1.81 | |
Jan. 18 Thursday | 6-8 pm | Dr. Lin Kai-Heng Crafting Black Hands: Institutional Changes and Social Networks in Skill Formation within Taiwan’s Machine Industry | Keplerstr. 2 SR 1.81 | |
Jan. 25 Thursday | 6-8 pm | Prof. Lin Shu-Hui Cross-cultural Dynamics and Applications of Taiwan Travel Literature | Keplerstr. 2 SR 1.81 | |
Jan. 31 Wednesday | 4-6 pm | Dr. André Beckershoff Social Forces in the Re-Making of Cross-Strait Relations: Hegemony and Social Movements in Taiwan | Melanchthonstr. 36 | |
Feb. 1 Thursday | 6-8 pm | Kuo Chao-Hsuan The Child Rights in Taiwan’s Parenting Law | Keplerstr. 2 SR 1.81 |
ASC Conference 2023
The annual conference of the ASC (Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung, DGA) this year was hosted by Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert, Chair of Greater China Studies, and took place on the 23rd and 24th of November at the University of Tübingen. The agenda consisted of five panels covering the topics of 'International Political Economy and IR,' 'Digitalization and the (Chinese Party-)State,' 'Political Steering under Xi Jinping,' 'Local Politics and Central-Local Relations,' and 'Censorship and Surveillance.' These panels were chaired by Tobias ten Brink (Constructor University), Margot Schüller (GIGA), Björn Alpermann (University of Würzburg), Doris Fischer (University of Würzburg), and Ryanne Flock (University of Würzburg). In each panel, discussants presented and commented on the conference papers, which included two contributions from our PhD candidates, Abbey Heffer and Joachim Brinkmann, before participants engaged in lively discussions. Overall, the ASC Conference was characterized by timely papers that reflected the current important debates within social science research on China.
Greater China and Taiwan Colloquium - Summer Term 2023
Join us this summer term for fruitful discussions on the latest research! Regular colloquium sessions are held on Thursdays, 6-8pm c.t. at Wilhelmstr. 19 SR 001. Additional sessions are scheduled for Mondays. We will keep everyone posted about the latest schedule
Greater China and Taiwan Colloquium - Summer Semester 2023 | ||
May 4 Thursday | Lin Kaiyuan Green Energy Transition and Peripheral City Development in China: toward a local Eco-developmental state | |
| May 11 Thursday | Dr. Jens Damm Contested and Negotiated Discourses: LGBTQI Issues in Taiwan’s Media | Wilhelmstr. 19, SR 001 |
| May 22 | Dr. Li Rongxin Understanding Consultative Politics in China, Ideology, Democracy and Governance | Keplerstr. 2 SR 002 |
May 25 Thursday | Infrastructuring Youth: the Chinese Government's mobilization of | Wilhelmstr. 19, SR 001 |
June 5 Monday | Kinmen as a Shifting Border | Keplerstr. 2 SR 002 |
| June 22 Thursday | Prof. Chen Yi-Ling From Globalizing Taipei to Refencing European Cities: Referencing as a politicalizing strategy in Taiwan’s urban development | Wilhelmstr. 19 SR 001 |
June 29 Thursday | Zhou Shunzi Steering and Shirking Environmental Policy under Top-Level Design in Xi Jinping's China | Wilhelmstr. 19 SR 001 |
July 3 Monday | Daniel Davies | Keplerstr. 2 SR 002 |
July 6 Thursday | Prof. Anne Sokolsky A Diary of a Taiwanese Girl (1944): Imperialization, Language Edu-cation, and a Young Woman's Voice in Japanese Ruled Taiwan | Wilhelmstr. 19 SR 001 |
July 10 Monday | Wu Peng-Chi 臺灣彰化王功沿海的林希元祖信仰及其海洋觀念研究 | Keplerstr. 2 SR 002 |
| July 27 Thursday | Prof. Lee Po-Han What's beneath ‘I'd rather not’? Disabled sexualities and crip ambivalence | Wilhelmstr. 19 SR 001 |
GCS Colloquium Winter Term 2022/23
GCS Colloquium Summer Term 2022
GCS Colloquium Summer 2021
China’s Political System in the Xi Jinping Era: Features, Trends and Developments
China’s Political System in the Xi Jinping Era: Features, Trends and Developments
Many observers have stated that China’s political system has seen considerable change since the beginning of the Xi Jinping era. But what exactly has changed, and to what effect? What are the most striking features of today’s political system, and what broader trends and developments within China’s elite strata and society at large do they embody? How successful is the system in generating stability and legitimacy? Does is allow for systemic evolution, and if so, in what direction? Or, are we facing an increasing ossification of the system that may lead to its eventual demise? This lecture series focuses on a number of relevant topics assessing the steering capacity of China’s political system in various policy fields, which is critical for the future development of China’s Communist regime and its “authoritarian resilience”. It is also an event to feature the “German school of China studies”.
The lecture series is an online event via Zoom. It takes place on Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:45 pm (CET). Speakers shall talk no longer than 25-30 minutes, followed by 45-50 minutes of Q&A.
Sessions
April 29
A Disciplining Agency: The State in Xi Jinping China
(Prof. Dr. Thomas Heberer, Universität Duisburg-Essen)
May 6
Economic Steering in Xi Jinping China
(Prof. Dr. Doris Fischer, Universität Würzburg)
*CANCELLED* May 20
How to Ensure Cadres' Compliance? Cadres Management in Xi Jinping China
(Chen Xuelian, Central Compilation and Translation Office, Beijing)
June 10
Handling Social Protest in Xi Jinping’s China
(Prof. Dr. Christian Göbel, Universität Wien)
June 17
From Resilience to Consolidation: Judicial Reforms and Authoritarian Rule in Xi Jinping China
(Meng Ye, M.A., Universität Tübingen)
June 24
Xi’s Third Way: Illiberal Institutionalization
(Prof. Dr. Björn Alpermann, Universität Würzburg)
July 1
Building a „World Class Science System” in Xi Jinping China
(Dr. Anna L. Ahlers, MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin)
Please register here to receive zoom link for all or any of the sessions and for event updates!
GCS Colloquium Winter 2020/21
The World in Crisis Mode: Fighting, hedging and utilizing the corona pandemic in Greater China and Asia
When human-to-human transmissions of a new coronavirus were first reported in January 2020, few people – most probably within China and its near-by periphery – could have foreseen the scale of the crisis that would soon follow. Within two months, a local outbreak of infections in the city of Wuhan in Central China turned into a pandemic, sending political systems worldwide into crisis-mode and redefining the complex web of international relations. The coronavirus crisis has revealed the strength and weaknesses of political regimes across Greater China and (East) Asia as each developed their own specific strategies to fight the virus. At the same time, the crisis arguably accelerated existing trends in international relations, most notably the increasing competition for global power between the U.S. and China.
This colloquium takes stock of the political and social repercussions of this pandemic in Greater China and (East) Asia. It focuses particularly on the role of China as the major factor shaping regional and international relations and explores the dimensions of regional and global political change accelerated by the pandemic’s impact.
This lecture series is organized as a luncheon seminar via Zoom. It is an online event that takes place on Thursdays from 12.30 to 13.45. Speakers are supposed to talk no longer than 25-30 minutes, followed by 45-50 minutes Q&A.
Please follow the links to the individual sessions for detailed information and registration.
12 November 2020:
How may the pandemic affect political trust in China?
Li Lianjiang, Hong Kong
19 November 2020:
The pandemic and Hong Kong’s political survival
Malte Kaeding, Surrey
26 November 2020:
The governmentality of anti-epidemic politics in Taiwan
Gunter Schubert, Tübingen
3 December 2020:
Still catching up or already looking back? How the Corona pandemic changed South Koreans' view of the West
Lee You Jae, Tübingen
17 December 2020
Japan-China relations during the coronavirus crisis
Chris Hughes, LSE
14 January 2021
Covid-19 - a litmus test for Southeast Asian regionalism
Jürgen Rüland, Freiburg
21 January 2021:
COVID-19 Response in China and East Asia: Unhealthy Populism and Healthy Authoritarianism?
Mark Thompson, Hongkong
4 February 2021
Crisis outfall: the demise of US-China relations
Eberhardt Sandschneider, Berlin
11 February 2021
The European Union’s search for geopolitical space in the era of Covid-19
Hans-Jürgen Bieling, Tübingen
18 February 2021
Chinese perspectives on a world in turmoil
Gudrun Wacker, Berlin