Conceptualizing "self-determination" in the Chinese context

Conceptualizing "self-determination" in the Chinese context

Il workshop intende offrire una panoramica sulle trasformazioni storiche del concetto di “auto-determinazione” nelle sue molteplici accezioni (individuale, etnica, politica) in Cina e a Taiwan, dal tardo periodo imperiale all’età contemporanea. 

Programma

11.15 : Greetings


11.30 : Julia Schneider / University College Cork
‘Simultaneous’, ‘Altaic’, ‘Post-Timurid’, or ‘Colonial’? Theorising Qing strategies of ruling diversity
12.15 : Kai Vogelsang / University of Hamburg
"Self” and the Origins of Chinese Modernity

13 : Lunch break 

15 : Flora Sapio / University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Preliminary findings on the CCP and self-determination (zijue 自决). 1922-1938
15.45 : Henrike Rudolph / University of Göttingen 
Defining the Self - Determining Leadership: Lingdaoquan 领导权from the Chinese Revolution to the Post-Revolutionary Present

16.30 : Coffee break

17 : Federico Brusadelli / University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Self-Determination as a Trojan Horse: the PRC and the Secession of Kosovo 
17.45 : Julie Yu-wen Chen / University of Helsinki 
What Happened to Fei Xiaotong’s “Unity from Diversity” in the People’s Republic of China and in Taiwan Today?

18.30 : Roundtable Discussion & Conclusions

Last update: 04 October 2023