Welcome to the Institute of Chinese Studies at Freiburg University
Research and teaching at the Institute of Chinese Studies at Freiburg University focus on modern and contemporary China and are characterized by an interdisciplinary approach combining history and the social sciences. In addition, the Institute offers a comprehensive training in the Chinese language.
Photos from our institute's everyday life, reading recommendations and information about our events can be found on our Facebook page.
Information on recent and upcoming events, important dates, and publications, can be found here:
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Workshop “Urbanizing Rural China: Challenges of Rural Governance” in Klitgaarden/Denmark and a New Research Network
- On February 23-25, 2018 a workshop on "Urbanizing Rural China: Challenges of Rural Governance" co-organized by Dr. René Trappel (together with Prof. Elena Meyer-Clement, FU Berlin and Prof. Jesper Zeuthen, Aalborg University) took place at the Klitgaarden Refugium in Denmark.
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Tabea Mühlbach receives Alumni Award
- We are pleased to congratulate our student Tabea Mühlbach on being awarded the Alumni Award of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Freiburg for outstanding final theses. The title of her master’s thesis is “Narrating Self and Past in China’s Land Reform. Discourses of Suku and Fanshen”.
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Call for applications: PhD positions of the DFG-funded graduate school ‘Factual and Fictional Narration’
- The DFG-funded interdisciplinary graduate school GRK 1767 ‘Factual and Fictional Narration’ at the University of Freiburg, Germany, is inviting applications for 8 PhD positions starting on October 1, 2018.
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November 7, 2017 Lecture: Speaking with the Silent Majority: the Rise of Grassroots Intellectuals."
- The lecture of Prof. Sebastian Veg (SHSS Paris) will take place in the seminar room in Erbprinzenstraße 12 and begins at 18:15.
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Lena Henningsen is receiving an ERC Starting Grant of nearly 1.5 million euros for her project “The Politics of Reading in the People’s Republic of China (READCHINA)
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Workshop: "Yan’an and Chinese socialism"
- International workshop at the University of Freiburg, 3-4 August 2017, organized by Tani Barlow (Rice University), Dong Limin (Shanghai University) and Nicola Spakowski (University of Freiburg).
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Workshop: "New Trends in the Study of the Early People’s Republic of China"
- International workshop to be held in Münstertal, May 19-21, 2017, hosted by the project “The Maoist Legacy: Party Dictatorship, Transitional Justice and the Politics of Truth”. The workshop is co-organized by the Universities of Freiburg and Cologne.
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Talk on China's Lawyers on 27 April 2017
- Talk by Judith Bout, EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris.
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Conference: "Reading Intellectual and Literary Change during China’s Long 1970s"
- Conference to be held in Freiburg, May 5-6, 2017, hosted by the project “Worlds of Reading in China’s long 1970s: Reading and Writing during the Cultural Revolution”, organized by Lena Henningsen and Oliver Schulz
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Guest lecture: "Letters from the People: The Masses and the Mass Line in the Early People’s Republic of China"
- On Thursday, 27 October, Prof. Dr. Aminda Smith will give a talk on the topic of "Letters from the People: The Masses and the Mass Line in the Early People’s Republic of China". The lecture will take place at Erbprinzenstraße 12 (4th floor) between 4 pm and 6 pm.