Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, from the Institute for East Asian Studies at Vienna University, offered insights into the characteristics and inconsistencies of Chinese women's law, especially in marriage, everyday life and old age. The event was well attended and the lecture was followed by a lively discussion.

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International Conference 2014

18. - 20. September 2014

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This international and interdisciplinary conference organised by the China Centre in conjunction with the History Department at Kiel University aims to bring together the two disparate views of ageing; one focusing only on the weaknesses of getting old and the other on the positive potential of active ageing. A more nuanced view of old age is needed, focusing on the concept of "self restraint", which combines ideas such as abstinence, asceticism, self-denial and frugality, but also self-cultivation and self-education. Our international guest experts, from the fields of gerontology, humanistic research on ageing and cultural studies, will connect historical and current perspectives on ageing and self-denial through scientific approaches. Given its anthropological focus, the conference is held in conjunction with the Institute for Historical Anthropology.

Tibet, Taiwan and Tian´anmen

Tibet, Taiwan and Tian´anmen. These "three T's" and other cultural themes are topics of discussion the whole world over. Thursday, June 12, 2014, saw the first event organised under the auspices of the newly founded Forum for Asian Legal Cultures. Dr. Knut B. Pißler, from Hamburg's Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, gave a memorable lecture on Chinese law.

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Environment and sustainability in China and Europe

THE ISSUE OF SUSTAINABILITY IN CHINA AND EUROPE

Date: January 10, 2014, 13:00 – 15:00
Venue: Klaus-Murmann-Auditorium, Leibnizstrasse 1

For the first time, this event brought together Chinese and European approaches to sustainability. The three lectures were followed by a panel discussion, focusing in particular on the joint interests of China and Europe, their differences and the reasons for these, how integrated research projects can contribute to a realisation of sustainability strategies, and what we can learn from each other.

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Introductory remarks: Prof. Dr. Angelika Messner, Head of Kiel's China Centre

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Welcome note: Prof. Dr. Birgit Friedl, Vice President Kiel University

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Prof. Dr. Martin Visbeck, Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence „Future Ocean“, Kiel

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Dr. Eva Sternfeld, Head of the Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China, Technical University Berlin

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Jan Felix Köbbing, Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Dynamics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald

The event was well attended.

The lectures were followed by a panel discussion.

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学术研讨会 Symposium

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On November 27, 2013, a symposium took place at the CAU with the title Asia: A European Invention?

For a report on the symposium, click here.

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Forum: China and the Environment / The Environment and China

中国与环境及环境与中国的关系

This symposium, which took place on June 5, 2013, was jointly organised and hosted with the Gustav-Radbruch-Network for Environmental Philosophy and Ethics. The great practical experience of the speakers in China made the talks all the more informative. Topics covered included the Hukou System of household registration, which limited mobility after its introduction in the Mao era (Professor Johannes Küchler, TU Berlin), water supply in the Tarim basin, of crucial importance in the west of China given its gas and oil resources and rising cotton production (Dr. Niels Thevs, Greifswald University), and the environmental awareness of the Chinese population, based on interviews with local people (Dr. des. Herrn Jorit Neubert). The symposium was very well attended and ended in lively debate.

What is (Chinese) medicine?

This question was investigated on June 12, 2014, by Prof. Dr. U. Paul Unschuld, Director of the Horst-Görtz-Foundation for the Theory, History and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at the Berliner Charité. The topic is a complex one, given the differences between medicine as documented in the past by the relatively few scholars and as actually practised by the population at large, about which almost nothing is known. A mere fraction of the old medical books have been translated, and many "treasures" may still remain hidden.

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Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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Lecture of Dr. Wang Cheng

Lecture of Prof. Dr. Wang Miao

Lecture of Prof. Dr. Hermann Kulke

Creativity in Chinese cultural management

Lecture and Information Evening

The emergence of China from a centre of production to one of innovation

China's Economy

The legal status of women in China