Lena Henningsen hat auf folgende Ausschreibung hingewiesen:
in Heidelberg sind 3 Stellen für Doktoranden zu besetzen:
Hier ist der Ausschreibungstext: https://chinacomx.github.io/apply
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Stefan Christ hat auf folgenden CfP hingewiesen:
https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/announcement/view/139
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, guest-edited by Andrea Bréard and Stefan Christ
Ciphering and Ruling China’s Population
Numbers pertaining to the size, structure and evolution of the Chinese population have mattered significantly to officials, thinkers and the military for a long time. The twentieth century has witnessed a particularly strong increase in attempts by bureaucrats, scientists, politicians and intellectuals to quantify the Chinese population. Statistical numbers were taken as unambiguously describing social reality and served as fundamentals for government measures and determining policy goals.
While countless studies deal with the composition of China’s population and demographic politics, this special issue will focus on the intellectual, political and social production as well as the afterlife of sometimes only apparently scientifically produced numbers, ratios, and quotas in relation to the Chinese population. Rather than simply viewing these numbers as the objective outcome of quantitative research representing reality, numbers are understood as ciphers, which encode a hidden reality that goes beyond their numerical actuality. Such ciphers will be at the center of attention and the very object of inquiry: the contributions to this special issue will tackle discourses and practices related to the emergence, circulation, transformation, adaptation, and, if applicable, persistence or discarding of numerical values related to population from (potentially) the earliest state formations in Chinese history to the present. Drawing on the approaches of cultural, intellectual and conceptual history as well as the sociology of science, the individual articles examine how numbers are “alive” and enmeshed in specific historical contexts, repeatedly crossing functional boundaries, representing, affecting, and transforming individual lives, social groups, and political concepts. Possible research questions include:
- How are numbers used to make arguments and establish narratives about China’s “population”, “society”, “nation” or “people(s)”?
- In which ways does the production, manipulation and publication of numbers contribute to ruling China’s population?
- How and why do the meanings and practical applications of numbers related to population change?
- What explains the “avalanche of numbers” in the twentieth century?
- How did statistics become a sine qua non for governing China’s population?
- Why are numbers so alluring and even become fetishized – even though those involved in producing and using the numbers are aware of their imprecision?
- How did specific numbers – like the “400 million (Chinese)” – become central political terms or even concepts?
The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2024.
Papers written in English (max. 10,000 words) should be supplemented with an abstract (250 words) and 5 keywords in both English and Chinese, and should follow the Author Guidelines and Style Sheet provided on the submission webpage:
https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/about/submissions
Papers must be submitted by June 1st 2024 via the journal’s webpage: https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/index
For registration to our open journal system, please write to journal@chinesestudies.eu
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This one day workshop, held at University College Dublin on 17 May 2024, develops international collaboration on zones of contact between the Russian Empire (1721-1917) and the Qing Empire (1636/1644-1912). These zones are, on the one hand, geographically defined borderlands in Central, Inner, and East Asia, and, on the other hand, cultural, intellectual, political, and economic spaces wherein people from these two empires (and beyond) met and interacted.
The workshop seeks to generate conversation about local and regional entanglements, networks, and exchanges across these vast Eurasian territories. While conventional histories of the two empires have treated them as two separate political entities, the workshop aims to adopt transregional and transnational approaches to overcome the narrow and traditional idea of territory – and in doing so, to propose alternative spatial, economic, and cultural histories of the region that contribute to attempts to de-nationalise and de-territorialise the historiography.
Confirmed speakers:
• Sören Urbansky (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “Yellow Peril in Vladivostok: The Chinese Diaspora in Russia and the Soviet Union”
• Yuexin Rachel Lin (Leeds): “Frontier activism, ‘rights recovery’ and international law: Early Sino-Soviet relations revisited”
• Meng Zhang (Vanderbilt): “Inter-ethnic commercial disputes on the Qing Inner Asian frontier”
• Eric Schluessel (George Washington): “Mazars, Merchants, and Immiseration: Pious Economy and Chinese Capital in Turn-of-the-Century Xinjiang”
We now invite proposals for papers of 15 minutes in length from PhD and Postdoctoral researchers. While the focus of the workshop lies on the Russian and Qing empires, papers may extend into immediate post-imperial timeframes if there are good reasons for doing so.
If you are interested in participating, please send details of your name, affiliation, a short cv (max. 1-2 pages), a paper title and abstract (max. 300 words) to julia.schneider@ucc.ie and jennifer.keating@ucd.ie by 29 February.
Organisers: Dr. Jennifer Keating, School of History, University College Dublin & Dr. Julia C. Schneider, Department of Asian Studies, University College Cork
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Registration for the Summer School in Classical Chinese and Classical Japanese will open soon. The Summer School is organized by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with Princeton University.
For more information visit the website:
https://www.unive.it/pag/39168/
For more details regarding the program, see attached file.
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Felix Meyer zu Venne hat auf folgenden Workshop aufmerksam gemacht – weitere Informationen im Anhang.
Schreibworkshop veranstaltet vom Kapsel-Magazin, gefördert vom Bildungsnetzwerk China.
Bist du zwischen 14 und 21 Jahren alt, interessierst dich für Sci-Fi und kreatives Arbeiten und erzählst gerne deine eigenen Geschichten – dann kannst du dich für die dreitägige Werkstatt anmelden! https://bildungsnetzwerk-china.de/angebot/un-konferenz-kapsel-magazin.html
Angeregt durch die Sci-Fi-Texte aus China werden wir, etwa 25 Schüler:innen und ein Team von sechs Sci-Fi-Kreativen, eigene Zukunftsentwürfe schreibend und zeichnend wagen.
Wann?
21. Juni bis 23. Juni 2024
Anreise am 21. Juni bis 13:00 Uhr
Abreise am 23. Juni um 16:00 Uhr
Wo?
Jugendherberge in Falkensee,Brandenburg
Anfahrt: Wir fahren alle gemeinsam am 21. Juni ab dem Berliner Hauptbahnhof.
Genauer Treffpunkt wird nach Anmeldung bekanntgegeben.
Mehr?
https://bildungsnetzwerk-china.de
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Roland Borsos hat um die Verbreitung der folgenden Nachricht gebeten:
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Shanghai Cishu Chubanshe 上海辞书出版社 habe ich eine neu überarbeite Ausgabe des Hanyu Da Cidian veröffentlicht: Hanyu Da Cidian Chongxin Paiban 《漢語大詞典》（重新排版）. Sie wurde auf Basis der originalen Printdaten erstellt und ist exklusiv als digitale Ressource ab sofort verfügbar unter folgenden Adresse:
https://www.hanyucidian.org
Die digitale Wörterbuchplatform umfasst zahlreiche weitere Nachschlagewerke, wie eine ebenfalls neu digitalsierte Version des Kangxi Zidian 康熙字典, das Xiandai Hanyu Da Cidian 现代汉语大词典 und spezialsierte Werke wie das Zhonguo Wenxue Da Cidian 中国文学大辞典 oder Zhonguo Lishi Da Cidian 中国历史大辞典. Insgesamt stehen über 120 Bände und Datenbanken zur Verfügung. Interessierten Individuen stehen kostenlose Testzeiträume zur Verfügung. Universitäten, Bibliotheken, und Institutionen können auf Anfrage gesonderte Testzugänge beantragen.
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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
um die Versorgung mit VR chinesischen elektronischen Zeitschriften weiterhin sicherstellen zu können, haben wir einen Lizenzvertrag mit Weipu 维普 (mit vollem Namen VIP 维普) abgeschlossen. Wir haben schon mehrfach über den Anbieter im Blog berichtet. Das Portal bietet über 70 Millionen Artikel aus 15 Tausend+ Zeitschriften, z.T. ab dem Erscheinungsjahr 1955. Weipu unterscheidet sich von CAJ sowohl im Hinblick auf die Zusammenstellung als auch die Bedienung.
Alle Informationen hinsichtlich Suchmöglichkeiten und Inhalten finden Sie in folgendem Blogbeitrag: https://blog.crossasia.org/neue-lizenz-fuer-elektronische-zeitschriften-aus-der-vr-china-weipu-%e7%bb%b4%e6%99%ae/
Wir freuen uns sehr, wenn Sie diese Information mit den Mitarbeiter:innen und Studierenden Ihres Instituts teilen. Für Rückfragen stehen wir Ihnen jederzeit gern zur Verfügung.
Mit besten Grüßen
Ihr CrossAsia-Team