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About the Joint Center for Advanced Studies "Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China"

A Translingual Conceptual History of Chinese Worlds (諸多“世界”的概念：跨語際概念史)

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CATS Kolleg Epochal Lifeworlds: Narratives of Crisis and Change

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Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups

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Presentation "Circulations and Convergences: Mecca in the Conceptions and Mobilities of Chinese Muslim Diasporas in Saudi Arabia" by Dr. Janice Hyeju Jeong

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Social Worlds: China's Cities as Spaces of Worldmaking

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China's landless peasants and the role of state-led rural urbanization

Pocast Welt.Macht.China: Hotpot und Hochhäuser: Ist Chinas Megastadt Chongqing den Hype wert?

Creating the ‘Good Life’ in the City: Rethinking Urban Spaces from More- Than-Human Perspectives

BAT Celebrity Tech-Entrepreneurs and Chinese Masculinities in the Era of the Global Digital Economy

Aesthetic camping - urban lifestyles in China

Countering Climate Change with Prayers? Tibetan sMon lam Practice, Buddhist Ecoactivism, and Extinction Rebellion

Imagining Social Change through Policy Failures in China

"Social Relations of Amateur Practice: The Socialist Vision for Culture in Hunan’s Agricultural Production Cooperatives, 1953–1958"

"The politics of urbanizing the Chinese countryside"

The Dao of Happiness in Contemporary China: On the Encompassing Meanings and Affects of “Xingfu”

全球的全球史 (Global History, Globally). Chinese Translation by Peking University Press

“Centrisms: Questions of Privilege and Perspective in Global Historical Scholarship”,

“Navigating Central-Local Dynamics: Hong Kong's Adaptation of Public Space Governance amid China's Shifting COVID-19 Policies in 2022”

“Reasserting the Buddhist Tradition: Lü Bicheng and Chinese Vegetarianism in a Global Context”

Introduction to Special Issue: Between Religious Self-Cultivation and Environmentalism: Changing Meanings of Vegetarianism in Modern China

Special Issue: Between Religious Self-Cultivation and Environmentalism: Changing Meanings of Vegetarianism in Modern China

Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore

Performing the Right to the Modern Chinese City: Changing Patterns of Panhandling in Guangzhou

The psychological imagination of the social in contemporary China

„Coda: Narratives in an Embattled World”

Ein gescheiterter Expansionsversuch? Das Schweigen der chinesischen Mitglieder in der Korrespondenz des Internationalen Sozialistischen Kampf-Bundes (ISK), 1924–1936

Dreams in Chinese Fiction Spiritism, Aestheticism, and Nationalism

Eldercare Services in Urban China

To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World

Local state leadership: State-leading groups in governing urban China

Anatomy of the Superstitious Mind: Subjectivity and Interiority in Two Early Twentieth-Century Rebuttals to Liaozhai's Records of the Strange

Von der Überbevölkerung zur Überalterung? Chinas Demografie und Bevölkerungspolitik

People vs. ‘god of plague’: Socialist China’s anti-zoonotic campaign media as environmental media

Institutionalising global mining knowledge: the rise of engineering education in late Qing China, 1870–95

Sticking with Trans: Reconsidering Chinese American Cinema through Anna May Wong

Never forget Mao: The Monumental as Radical Universal. OR: The Making of a 'Maoist Modern'

Lives and Deaths of Werther: Interpretation, Translation, and Adaptation in Europe and East Asia

Communicating with the Gods: Spirit-Writing in Chinese History and Society

Jamais la nuit? Le soleil ne se couche pas en Chine.

Forging an Anti-Bandung: Saudi Arabia and East Asia's Cold War

After the Sun: Slow Hope? Rethinking Continuous Crisis Through China’s Revolutions

Creating the spectacular city in everyday life: A governance analysis of urban public space in China

Book Review, Brian Lander, The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire

Xi’s Third Way: Illiberal Institutionalization

On the Night the Dead Return: Five Accounts of Fatal Revenants (Sha) from ‘Nighttime Talks’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing

Chinesisch-deutsche Lyrikdialoge - Annäherungen an die chinesische Dichtung vom Expressionismus bis zur Gegenwart

Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims

Doing Ethnicity: Multi-layered Ethnic Scripts in Contemporary China

Aus dem Dunkeln in das Licht: Ist die Welt (noch) zu retten? Chinesische Perspektiven auf Ende und Anfang

‘In Other News’: China’s International Media Strategy on Xinjiang—CGTN and New China TV on YouTube

Book Review: Steven B. Miles, Chinese Diasporas. A Social History of Global Migration. (New Approaches to Asian History.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2020

Manufacturing environmental disasters: an analysis of eco-documentaries in the age of Asia

Familie – Leben – Pandemie. Worte und Welten chinesischer Wanderarbeiterinnen

'Trainingslager für Dreistigkeit'? Sprachspiele und poetische Grenzüberschreitungen in chinesisch-deutschen Lyrikdialogen

Do you hear the people sing? Von Konfuzius, neuen Weltordnungen, und der Macht (und) der Musik

Governing Rural Poverty on Urban Streets: Guangzhou's Management of Beggars in the Reform Era

Neue (musikalische) Weltordnungen

The Making of Mao

Yam Gong: Gedichte

Der Mensch als Nutztier – eine Parabel aus dem alten China auf die Autokratie: Zur Komödie von Qin von Li Jing

Aus ‚Verzweiflung, Wut und Schrecken... entspringt … eine neue Welt‘ – Von der Macht der Musik und von Klimagerechtigkeit

Religious Othering. Global Dimensions

Election in Barbarian Lands: Representing Inner Asian and Euro-American Political Cultures in Early Modern China

The Genealogy of Literature and Theory

Reading European Environments: Historical Perspectives

‘And suddenly the memory revealed itself….’—Making Sense of the Senses in History—Epilogue

Die jüngste Kontroverse um Zustand und Zukunft der deutschen Chinaforschung – eine vorläufige Bilanz

What Role did Climate Change Play in the Decline of the Tang Dynasty

Chronologics: An Introduction

Chronotypologies: An Introduction

Introduction: Periodization in a Global Context

Periodization in a Global Context

„(Alb-)Träume von China: Transformation und Imagination des neuen China in der deutschen Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts

Chinesische Perspektiven auf Europa. Eine historische Skizze

Beyond Party Politics? Visitors and Meaning-Making in the National Museum of Taiwan Literature

Ethics in Social Science Research on China

Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author Museums

Little Mecca in Canton: representations and resurgences of the graveyard of Sa’d ibn Abī Waqqās

Global City Agency and Multilevel Governance in China

Global History and Religious Encounters

The Return of Chen Ching Lin: Chinese Deserters and Chinatowns in the British Raj, 1943-1946

Leaving Gaia Behind: The Ethics of Space Migration in Cixin Liu’s and Neil Stephenson’s Science Fiction

Tod der Metapher! Gedanken zum Ikonoklasmus in Chinas langem 20. Jahrhundert

“Better Access to Cleaner Energy Improves Health for Women in China, though the kitchen air is not yet all clear”

Xinjiang – China und die Uiguren

‘For the Sake of Morality and Civilization’: The Buddhist Animal Protection Movement in Republican China

China’s Rural—Urban Transformation: New Forms of Inclusion and Exclusion

‘Bereaved Single-Child Families’ (Shidu Jiating): Dealing with an Unintended Consequence of China’s One-Child Policy

Doing Discourse Research in Chinese Studies: Methodological Reflections on the Basis of Studying Green Consumption and Population Policy

Global city competition and new hierarchies of urban citizenship in China’s migration regime

The Humanities and the New Silk Road

Twentieth-Century China as an Object of Thought: Global and Local Historical Reflections

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Final Annual Conference - "Scales of Worldmaking" - Würzburg, 12-14 June 2025

Annual Conference 2023 - The Making of Epochal Events— Narrating Turning Points in Chinese History

Keynote 1: Epochal Events and Historical Narration by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon (University of Bieldefeld)

Keynote 2: Imagining Social Change by Andrew B. Kipnis (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Methodology Workshop: Rethinking Religion(s) in China - Theories, Methods, Practices

Mohammed Alsudairi (Australian National University)

Tansen Sen (New York University Shanghai)

Vincent Goossaert (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)

Panel I: Periodization and Master Narratives: Situating East Asia in Global Twentieth-Century History

Panel II: Narrating Environmental Histories: Actors, Discourses, Devices

Panel III: Urban/Rural Futures: Narrating Changing Worlds in City and Countryside

Panel IV: Worldmaking in Motion: Encounters and Ruptures in Travel and Exile

Panel V: Between Continuity and Epistemic Rupture: Negotiating Change in the Chinese History of Science and Technology

Panel VI: Making World Health — Local Moments and Global Moments

Harald Bøckman

Report of the Joint Center's Annual Conference 2023

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