Taiwan working group

Taiwan Working Group

Origin

The Taiwan Working Group advocates for research and teaching on Taiwan within German-speaking Sinology and consists of members from the German Association for Chinese Studies e.V. This initiative for the working group stems from an agenda item of the BMBF-funded research project "Taiwan as a Pioneer" (TAP), which connects the three locations Bochum, Tübingen, and Trier.

Objectives

The goal is to network the academic orientations at the various institutes, so that both the researchers in the Taiwan Group and the associated institutes can benefit from each other. In addition, this approach brings together the expertise and teaching content at the different locations, offering students at the respective sites a broader thematic range in conjunction.

Results

As an initial result of this Taiwan Working Group, the lecture series "Taiwan in History and Present" is being held during the summer semester of 2024. Here, specialists in the humanities and social sciences of Taiwan research present current historical, linguistic, anthropological, political, religious, and cultural studies perspectives. They introduce foundational and latest research findings and present current social, geopolitical, and cultural trends. The presenters are predominantly German-speaking lecturers with a focus on Taiwan in their Sinological or Chinese studies orientation. A brief overview of the presenters and their topics:

  • 08.04. Introduction: Christine Moll-Murata (Bochum) und Josie-Marie Perkuhn (Trier)
  • 15.04. Christine Moll-Murata (Bochum): Koloniales Erbe, Selbstbehauptung und Erinnerung
  • 22.04. Hsu Yu-Yin (Bochum): Ghost Marriage and Birth Customs in Taiwan
  • 29.04. Henning Klöter (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Koloniales Spracherbe in Taiwan - Wie und warum das Japanische kam, ging und dennoch blieb
  • 06.05. Astrid Lipinsky (Wien): Erinnern in Taiwan heute - die sexuellen Sklavinnen der japanischen kaiserlichen Armee, die sogenannten "Trostfrauen" aus Taiwan
  • 13.05. Christian Soffel (Trier): Konfuzianismus in Taiwan
  • 27.05. Thomas Fliß (Trier): Taiwanische Balladen – Umgangssprachliche Lyrik in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
  • 03.06. Amélie Keyser-Verreault (Tübingen): Gender, human capital and demographic crisis in Contemporary Taiwan - highly educated women's attitude towards motherhood
  • 10.06. Josie-Marie Perkuhn (Trier): Digitale Demokratie in Taiwan
  • 17.06. Jens Damm (Tübingen): Taiwans gesellschaftlicher Wandel am Beispiel der LGBTQ Bewegung
  • 24.06. Gunter Schubert (Tübingen): Taiwans Politische Ökonomie in Zeiten der "Chip-Kriege"
  • 01.07. Jan Shiou-Lan (Bonn): Welcher Ort ist kein Ort der Praxis? Buddhistische Kultur und Kunst thematisierende Museen in Taiwan;
    Duncan Paterson (Staatsbibliothek Berlin): Taiwans Medienlandschaft im Kontext wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken
  • 08.07. Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg): Multiple Identitäten, künstlerische Lesungen - Taiwan in transkultureller Perspektive
  • 15.07. Summary

Contact

The TAP postdocs Josie-Marie Perkuhn and Thomas Fliß from the University of Trier are available as contact persons ().