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Oxford, UK

23 – 24th May, 2016
Deadline: 20th Feb, 2016

As China moved into the post-Mao phase of adaptation, the emphasis on utopian goals and social mobilization was replaced with economic modernization and a reconciliation of state and society through new governance strategies. Whereas political reliability was emphasized for much of the Maoist era, in the post-Mao period, the emphasis has been primarily on expertise to promote economic modernity. The political preference in the Maoist era had created a “virtuocracy,” as Susan Shirk branded it, in which people were recruited into the party and appointed into official positions not on the basis of their professional qualifications but on the basis of their correct political virtues. But the change in regime goals in the new era—from state revolution to economic modernization—required an infusion of expertise into the governance structure, and a combination of co-optation and exclusion strategies for the new elites and masses. What are the continuities and reforms related to governance issues in the post-Mao era?… Read more ⤻

Budapest, Hungary
Jul 4 – 15th, 2016

Deadline: 14th Feb, 2016

Explicitly or implicitly, the question of what makes us human has been a central and ongoing preoccupation among thinkers from antiquity to the present, and in intellectual traditions vastly removed from one another in time and space. That the question seems to be a fixture in the human imagination speaks not only to our need for self-understanding in the context of a broader world, but also to its relevance to issues of practical concern: how one conceptualizes the human has deep normative implications, grounding different moral systems, hierarchies of values, configurations of power and patterns of social interaction. That it has been answered in such diverse ways highlights the great stakes involved in this ongoing conversation.
 
This course examines the complex and varied trajectory of how thinkers, in China and Europe, have sought to make sense of their humanness. Bringing together specialists in the philosophical and religious traditions of both civilizations, it focuses particularly on the early history of thinking about the human as approached through a diverse range of sources, from ethical and cosmological writings to medical treatises and case studies, to religious and literary texts (such as ancient tragedy).… Read more ⤻

Lyon, France
24 – 25th Mar 2016
Deadline: 30th Jun 2015

Organised by the University of Lyon and National University of Taiwan.

The objective of this conference is to study private and public collections connected to the Far East from a contemporary perspective. While we intend to pay particular attention to contemporary art, the considered collections can also be focused on more ancient objects, and not only on art objects. The term “Far East” will be here understood in a broad sense, including the islands of East Asia and South East Asia. The approach will be interdisciplinary, combining art history, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, economics or even politics. We will divide the conference into four panels:

Panel I: Profiles and motivations of the collectors

Private collectors are enthusiastic about the visual and material cultures of the Far East. In China, since the 2000s, the number of collectors is growing at breakneck speed, at the same time as a booming art market has been developing: the art collection has become above all a status symbol for the wealthy and new rich and for a part of  the middle class which numbers about 400 million people.… Read more ⤻

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Source: http://www.21ccom.net/articles/dlpl/shpl/2014/0806/110647.html (共识网).

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The Hanban spurs a mess at the “European Association of Chinese Studies” 20th congress

The Hanban, or in its complete version the “Office for the leadership group for China’s state promotion of the teaching of the Chinese language internationally” is the headquarters for the “Confucius Institutes” famous both at home and abroad. As regards the CI there have been much criticism domestic critics, who raise the point that there are still so many impoverished people at home, and insufficient investment in education, with so many rural young people unable to go to school [under such circumstances] instead [the government] invests abroad, and even brings huge investments and send educators into Western countries so much wealthier than ours, and with so much stronger budgets for education. What is especially troubling is that these expenses and dispatching of teachers and teaching materials so as to “bring education to their doorstep”, such “wonderful things”，isn’t met with gratitude by the “beneficiaries” but on the contrary, in Canada, in the US, and in New Zealand and in other countries (not sure about the situation in nonWestern countries) there is more and more widespread doubt.… Read more ⤻

To whom it may concern

At the recent conference in Portugal of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) that began on 23 July 2014 the conference organizers in the University of Minho and Coimbra University jointly prepared two separate documents for the conference participants, namely the Conference Programme and the Conference Abstracts.

The Conference Programme, which is over ninety pages in length, was intended to provide essential information to conference participants regarding the schedule of the conference panels, the conference’s many sponsors, and events taking place during the conference. The Conference Abstracts, as the title suggests, is a collection of all the abstracts of presentations to be given at the conference; it is over three hundred pages in length.

The costs for producing the Conference Programme were covered by the conference fees paid by the EACS members themselves. The costs for producing the Conference Abstracts were covered by a grant received by the University of Minho from the Confucius China Studies Program that is administered by the Confucius Institute Headquarters in Beijing.… Read more ⤻

1. Dr. Sun Lam, the EACS Conference co-organizer at the University of Minho, applied for funding for certain costs arising from the EACS Conference from the Confucius China Studies Program (CCSP).

2. The CCSP application form for an international conference grant states specifically in its final paragraph that:

”The conference is regulated by the laws and decrees of both China and the host country, and will not carry out any activities which are deemed to be adverse to the social order.” (my italics)

3. Dr. Sun Lam’s application and budget both clearly stated that the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (CCKF) was a co-sponsor of the conference, and that the CCKF has a long history of sponsoring the EACS conference.

4. Dr. Sun Lam’s budget for a total of 28,040€ included costs for the printing of 400 copies of the Conference Abstracts (论文摘要印刷) at a cost of 7,000€, and the production of 400 conference bags at a cost of 3,500€.… Read more ⤻

Aalborg University, Denmark
13th – 14th Nov 2014
Registration Deadline: 30th Jun
Abstract Submission: 20th Aug
Paper Submission: 30th Oct

An international workshop arranged by: The Confucius Institute for Innovation and Learning The Research Center on Development and International Relations.

Ever since President Xi Jinping in 2013 used The Chinese Dream as the new political slogan of the Chinese government, China observers, journalists and the Chinese public have debated the exact meaning of the term, its implications, as well as the motivation for introducing this particular slogan. Compared to previous political slogans such as “The Three Represents” or “Harmonious Society”, the recent Chinese Dream is multi-layered, allows for various interpretations and raises an array of questions: “Whose dream is the Chinese Dream?”, “Is there only one dream or several different dreams?” “Is the Chinese Dream an individual or a collective project?” and “How does the Chinese Dream compare with for instance the American Dream?” It is not only the definition of the slogan that is interesting, but also how quickly the term has caught on with the general public – in marked contrast to earlier political slogans that remained the property of internal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) discussions and official publications.… Read more ⤻

Zürich, Switzerland
Deadline: 10th Jan 2014

The successful candidate comes with a record of excellence in researching Global History (18th to 20th century), with a focus on Asian History, and several years of academic teaching experience. Applicants should demonstrate their interest in cooperating with the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Zurich.

Candidates are expected to have completed their habilitation or equivalent qualifications or, as the case may be, have an advanced postdoctoral research or habilitation project. Depending on the qualifications of the appointee, the professorship will take the form of a chair or an assistant professorship with tenure track. The position should be filled as soon as possible. Since administrative work is conducted in German at the University of Zurich, non-German speaking candidates are expected to acquire a working knowledge of German within the first two years of appointment In order to increase the number of women in leading academic positions, we specifically encourage women to apply.… Read more ⤻

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Members are invited to draw attention to research projects related to Chinese studies on this page. Please e-mail a short description with title, estimated length and affiliated persons to the secretary. In addition, you can provide documents for download (use PDF), and the web address where the project can be found, and we will create a direct link. Projects will be featured in the news-section as well as on our start-page. They will then move to the archive after completion.

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Members are invited to draw attention to research projects related to Chinese studies on this page. Please e-mail a short description with title, estimated length and affiliated persons to the secretary. In addition, you can provide documents for download (use PDF), and the web address where the project can be found, and we will create a direct link. Projects will be featured in the news-section as well as on our start-page. They will then move to the archive after completion.

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This new category collects and presents publications (books) by members of the EACS. Members are invited to send their bibliographical information (including short description, book cover image with web-permission, link to book sellers site (optional) to the webmaster. New items will be featured in the news-section (here) and on our start-page. They will then move to the directory after a few weeks. In case you are a publishing agency and want to advertise products related to Chinese studies on this site, please contact our secretary for detailed terms and conditions.

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22^nd – 23^rd Nov 2012
Cork, Ireland

Theme of the conference is Asian Studies in Ireland and Asian-European Social Innovation.
The 4th ASIA general conference (22-23 November 2012) programme is now online. Please check out details of this conference. All welcome. External Link

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Kalamazoo, USA
Deadline: 15^th Sep 2012

Dimitri Drettas (CRCAO, Paris) is organizing a session on Exorcism and Other Magical Practices in Medieval China for the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held on May 9-12, 2013 in Kalamazoo (MI), USA. The session's sponsor is the Societas Magica (www.societasmagica.org). With over three thousand participants every year, the Kalamazoo Congress is the most important annual event for medievalists worldwide

Freiburg, Germany
Deadline: 6^th July 2012

Das Institut für Sinologie der Universität Freiburg sucht eine/n Wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in E 13 Vollzeitstelle, Eintrittstermin: 1.10.2012. Die Stelle ist auf drei Jahre befristet. Eine Verlängerung um bis zu drei Jahre ist möglich. Aufgabenbereiche: Unterstützung von Forschung und Lehre im Gebiet gegenwärtiges China sowie Mitwirkung bei organisatorischen und administrativen Aufgaben.

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