July 29, 2025 - Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speeches
Presentations & Papers
Ahmed, Hussein
Alehterafy Global Center for Sustainable Economic Development Consultancies - CEO
The Effect of US - China Rival On Global Economy & Globalization (2008 - 2025)
Abstract:
To study the effect of US – China rival on global economy and the globalization; the researcher will investigate the US - Chinese economy during the global financial crisis and its afterma...
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The Effect of US - China Rival On Global Economy & Globalization (2008 - 2025)
Presenter
Ahmed, Hussein
Alehterafy Global Center for Sustainable Economic Development Consultancies - CEO
Abstract
Abstract:
To study the effect of US – China rival on global economy and the globalization; the researcher will investigate the US - Chinese economy during the global financial crisis and its aftermaths (2008 – 2015) and the trade war between the United States of America and China during (2016 – 2025). Therefore, multi-research-methods (descriptive, analytical, comparative and case study) will be conducted.
As concern with the global financial crisis and aftermaths the paper will cover the period from 2008 to 2015, focusing on the economic policies which applied from both sides and its impacts on the global economy and the globalization, i.e. purchasing power of the citizens, exports and the imports in the global economy.
As for the trade war it is not a new theme, the United States of America alleged that, China always keeping the exchange rate of the yuan at low levels as compared with the US dollar, at a rate less than its real value varies between 38% to 40% since 2007. The author will trace the route of the real value of the yuan in the period range between 2016 to May 30, 2025. Beside the opinion of the Chinese officials, who frequently say that, it is the monetary policy which is relevant to the stage of the Chinese economic development and quite efficient for accelerating the development of our exports, their opinion will be tested. Concrete results and an obvious recommendation will be set.
Key words:
USA; China; global economy; trade war; economic policies; globalization
Biography
My name is Hussein Suleiman Mohammed Ahmed, Sudanese, resided in Turkey. I'm Prof. Dr. in economics and certified professional first consultant trainer in development economies. I used to be university teacher for 12 years and the co - founder and CEO of the Broad Mind International Professional Training Center for 11 years. I'm the author of 9 books, writer of 29 global peer - reviewed economic research papers - two of which with WACS 2017 & 2018. As for training I train in 15 training subjects, I had/have been training over 5,000 benificiaries. I'm the founder and member of 12 global associations. Now I'm the owner, foundr and the CEO of Alehterafy Global Center for Sustainable Economic Development Consultancies.
Ba, Zengqiang (把增强)
河北省社会科学院 - 河北学刊杂志社社长、总编
“Relying on Seeking Truth from Facts”: The Success and Historical Enlightenment of the Communist Party of China’s Streamlining Policy During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression
Throughout the century-long struggle of the Communist Party of China(CPC), its theory and practice have been guided by a fundamental ideological line: seeking truth from facts. “Relying on seeking t...
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“Relying on Seeking Truth from Facts”: The Success and Historical Enlightenment of the Communist Party of China’s Streamlining Policy During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression
Presenter
Ba, Zengqiang
河北省社会科学院 - 河北学刊杂志社社长、总编
Abstract
Throughout the century-long struggle of the Communist Party of China(CPC), its theory and practice have been guided by a fundamental ideological line: seeking truth from facts. “Relying on seeking truth from facts” not only encapsulates the core tenets, demands, and methodology of Marxism but also serves as the key to the CPC’s success in all its endeavors. Taking the streamlining policy as an example, it was proposed during the stalemate phase of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, when the CPC faced unprecedented challenges, including relentless Japanese “mopping-up” campaigns and encroachment, a sharp reduction in its controlled territories, and shrinking channels for resource and manpower mobilization. To overcome these difficulties, the CPC adopted Li Dingming’s proposal for streamlining and, through a process of “crossing the river by feeling the stones”, successfully developed a distinctive approach to its implementation. The historical lessons of the wartime streamlining policy are as follows: it is essential to adhere to the fundamental principle of aligning the superstructure with the economic base; constant attention must be paid to correcting deviations and dispelling misinformation, gradually deepening the reform in the process; and it is crucial to ensure that surplus personnel are reassigned to suitable roles where their talents are fully utilized, thereby eliminating their concerns.
Biography
Ba Zengqiang, Researcher at the Hebei Academy of Social Sciences, Doctoral Supervisor, First-Level Talent of “333 Talent Project” in Hebei Province, and Expert Receiving Special Government Allowance from Hebei Province. He also serves as Council Member of the China Modern History Society and Council Member of Academy of History of Chinese Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, among other positions. He has published over 40 papers in prominent national academic journals. His monograph Dilemma and Response: A Study on the Communist Party of China’s Streamlining Policy During the War Against Japanese Aggression was awarded the First Prize in the 18th Hebei Provincial Outstanding Achievement Award for Social Sciences.
Bi, Kaihui
University of Canterbury - PhD Candidate
Exploring Post-Chinese Identities: The Ghost Narrative of Sinophone Hong Kong Cinema and its Expression of Social Anxiety and Collective Memory
This paper focuses on the ghost narrative of Sinophone Hong Kong cinema. Hong Kong, as a former British colony, has now become a special administrative region of China while retaining its capitalist s...
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Exploring Post-Chinese Identities: The Ghost Narrative of Sinophone Hong Kong Cinema and its Expression of Social Anxiety and Collective Memory
Presenter
Bi, Kaihui
University of Canterbury - PhD Candidate
Abstract
This paper focuses on the ghost narrative of Sinophone Hong Kong cinema. Hong Kong, as a former British colony, has now become a special administrative region of China while retaining its capitalist system. These complex historical and political circumstances have given Hong Kong unusual and contradictory characteristics. Hong Kong’s post-colonial legacy and political aphasia under mainland control question the essence of the city-state, redefining its cultural positions and possibilities. This paper attempts to develop Ackbar Abbas's notion of ‘disappearance’ by dividing the emergence of Hong Kong's disappearance into two consecutive but distinct versions, the reasons for the first disappearance of Hong Kong culture, and the emergence of ghost narratives has helped to redefine its cultural position and possibilities. the reasons for the first disappearance of Hong Kong culture, and the emergence of ghost narratives has helped Hong Kong resist the disappearance of culture and the reverse hallucination described by Abbas, because the resolution of the past problems represented by ghosts has made up for the historical void of Hong Kong, which has long been denigrated as the root of Hong Kong's denial of Chinese culture. At the latter verson, the ghosts of this period appear in Hong Kong undergoing structural transformation in the era of global capitalism and affected by the rise of the mainland economy. Hong Kong this thesis calls both Chinese and Western.The goal of this paper is therefore to analyse how the ghostly films that continue to emerge in the modern city represent Hong Kong's haunted past, and ultimately, through the hauntings, Hong Kong's post-Chinese identity is arrived at so as to reach a compromise under the dual pressures of both the mainland and the Western world. to reach a compromise under the dual pressure of the Mainland and the Western world.
Biography
Kaihui Bi is a PhD candidate at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and a master's degree from the University of Southampton in the UK. He is committed to the research of Chinese film, and his current project is ghost narration through the perspective of Sinophone. He is also the author of three peer-reviewed papers and a research associate in the digital humanities project at the University of Canterbury.
Chai, Xin (柴欣)
Humboldt University of Berlin - PhD
Women’s Suffrage in China and Germany through a Feminist Lens
Women’s suffrage is a fundamental indicator of women’s participation in politics and public life, and it served as a cornerstone of the early feminist movement, particularly during the first wave ...
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Women’s Suffrage in China and Germany through a Feminist Lens
Presenter
Chai, Xin
Humboldt University of Berlin - PhD
Abstract
Women’s suffrage is a fundamental indicator of women’s participation in politics and public life, and it served as a cornerstone of the early feminist movement, particularly during the first wave of feminism. The trajectories of women’s suffrage in China and Germany reflect their distinct political systems, social structures, and historical contexts. In Germany, women gained the right to vote in 1918 as a result of democratic upheaval following World War I and after decades of sustained feminist advocacy. In contrast, women in China were formally granted suffrage in 1947 under the Republic of China, and this right was reaffirmed and institutionalized after the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.
Whereas women’s suffrage in Germany emerged from grassroots civic engagement and broader democratic reforms, in China it was introduced top-down as part of a state-led modernization agenda. Despite the achievement of legal equality in both cases, structural and cultural barriers have continued to limit women’s full political participation. This paper examines the development and implementation of women’s suffrage in both countries, highlighting key differences and assessing their significance for the evolution of feminist movements and gender discourse in distinct political and ideological contexts.
Biography
CHAI Xin, PhD candidate in German Literature at Humboldt University of Berlin, Master's degree in Comparative Germanic Studies and Sinology at Heidelberg University
Cheng, Tingyin (鄭婷尹)
臺灣 高雄師範大學 - 副教授
On the Similarities and Differences Between Zhang Yugu and Fang Dongshu’s Views in Their Criticism of Ruan Ji’s Poetry—With a Discussion on the Tongcheng School’s Advancement of the Gediao School
In analyzing the poetic critiques of Ruan Ji by Zhang Yugu and Fang Dongshu, two inheritors of the Gediao and Tongcheng schools, it becomes clear that both critics adopt similar approaches based on po...
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On the Similarities and Differences Between Zhang Yugu and Fang Dongshu’s Views in Their Criticism of Ruan Ji’s Poetry—With a Discussion on the Tongcheng School’s Advancement of the Gediao School
Presenter
Cheng, Tingyin
臺灣 高雄師範大學 - 副教授
Abstract
In analyzing the poetic critiques of Ruan Ji by Zhang Yugu and Fang Dongshu, two inheritors of the Gediao and Tongcheng schools, it becomes clear that both critics adopt similar approaches based on poetic principles. Both emphasize the hierarchical structure, dynamic variations, and forceful poetic momentum in Ruan Ji’s works. However, Fang Dongshu places greater emphasis on overall structure, clarity, and its diverse, dramatic, and densely layered variations, offering a more comprehensive analysis of its vigorous brushwork and layered intensity. While Zhang stresses clarity and comprehensibility, Fang highlights the profound emotional depth. This study has two main contributions: first, through an exploration of Zhang and Fang’s critiques, it clarifies that Ruan Ji’s poetry, long regarded as difficult to interpret, actually follows a clear conceptual trajectory. Second, while previous scholarship notes the Gediao school’s influence on the Tongcheng school, it remains vague. This study provides a clearer example of this influence’s specific trajectory.
Biography
Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Literature at National Kaohsiung Normal University, located in Taiwan, Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University. Specializes in pre-Tang poetry and the criticism of pre-Tang poetry in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Cheng, Yixuan (程一璇)
Shanghai International Studies University - Student
Translation as Instrumentalization:
Pound’s China in Cathay
What Zhaomin Qian understates in Orientalism and Modernism is not only the significance of Pound’s misunderstanding of the Chinese language as ideographic, but also the self-centeredness of Pound’...
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Translation as Instrumentalization:
Pound’s China in Cathay
Presenter
Cheng, Yixuan
Shanghai International Studies University - Student
Abstract
What Zhaomin Qian understates in Orientalism and Modernism is not only the significance of Pound’s misunderstanding of the Chinese language as ideographic, but also the self-centeredness of Pound’s perception and translation of the Chinese poems. Contextualizing Pound within his poetic development and within historical dimensions, I argue that Pound’s approach to translating Chinese poems in Cathay allows him to instrumentalize China and Chinese culture for several purposes that fall into two categories. On one level, Pound uses translation to refine the poetics of his notion of Imagism; on another level, he attempts to address spiritual and political crises in Western civilization using translation. Placing special emphasis on the parameters of translation and the subjectivity of the translator, I seek to draw attention to an oft-overlooked dimension of translation: its power to undermine the subjecthood of the source and to reduce it to a mere tool to serve other subjects.
Chen Han (陈寒)
University of North Carilina at Chapel Hill - student
Human, Nature and Politics in Xie Lingyun and Wang Wei's Poetry
The thesis examines Chinese traditional nature poetry from the perspective of ecocriticism. Using Xie Lingyun and Wang Wei as a case study, the thesis aims to explore the dilemma between environmental...
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Human, Nature and Politics in Xie Lingyun and Wang Wei's Poetry
Presenter
Chen Han
University of North Carilina at Chapel Hill - student
Abstract
The thesis examines Chinese traditional nature poetry from the perspective of ecocriticism. Using Xie Lingyun and Wang Wei as a case study, the thesis aims to explore the dilemma between environmental politics and utopic visions of reclusion. The thesis reveals nuanced differences between poetry in ecosystem, and its metaphors for political ambition and reclusion. In political sphere, Xie Lingyun expresses his political ambition about utilizing environmental politics to change nature. Conversely, Wang Wei advocates for a “nonaction” (wu wei) method of government by distancing himself to direct political conduct. As for enlightenment and reclusion, the two poets reach the abstract enlightenment and concrete utopia based on Daoist self-cultivation. Xie Lingyun’s utopia is to form a community that can unify heaven and humanity through mountain reclusion. Wang Wei’s utopia, by contrast, is to create an isolated society such as Peach Blossom Spring through a distant countryside reclusion. Facing the dilemma between politics and reclusion, both poets lingers between Confucianism and Daoism in their different life periods. Xie Lingyun uses Confucianism in environmental politics and uses Daoism as a regimen to live longer. On the other hand, Wang Wei’s version of Daoism is while he implements his political duties and reclusive cultivation, he simultaneously finds a third space between Confucianism and Daoism.
The thesis will follow the road maps of introduction, three chapters, and conclusion. The introduction mainly presents the intellectual background and historical facts. Chapter one will discuss how Confucian action contributes to Xie Lingyun’s environmental politics, while Daoist nonaction contributes to Wang Wei’s attitude. Chapter two will focus on how the two poets attain enlightenment in an instantaneous moment where existence and nonexistence combine and contrast. The Chapter will compare Xie Lingyun’s utopia as unification of human and heaven with Wang Wei’s Daoist ideal state. Chapter three will show how the poets dilemma between political ambition to reclusion by associating their biographical experience and Chinese philosophical standpoints. The conclusion will further develop research directions.
Biography
Miss Han Chen is currently a graduate MA Asian Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She will do a PhD in Chinese at Arizona State University this August. Born in Shanghai China, Miss Han Chen was worked as an editor and writer for about five years. She has decided to go to academics since 2021. She studied creative writing MA at the University of Nottingham and transferred her major to Asian Studies. She specializes in ecocriticism, Chinese medieval poetry.
Chen, Jingyi (陈静怡)
The University of Hong Kong - Phd candidate
From Opposition to Advocacy: The Attitude of Johann Adam Schall von Bell Toward European Judicial Astrology During the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties
In 1586, Pope Sixtus V issued a decree stating that only God could predict the future, thereby prohibiting judicial astrology. In 1631, Pope Urban VIII reaffirmed this decree. Jesuit missionaries who ...
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From Opposition to Advocacy: The Attitude of Johann Adam Schall von Bell Toward European Judicial Astrology During the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties
Presenter
Chen, Jingyi
The University of Hong Kong - Phd candidate
Abstract
In 1586, Pope Sixtus V issued a decree stating that only God could predict the future, thereby prohibiting judicial astrology. In 1631, Pope Urban VIII reaffirmed this decree. Jesuit missionaries who arrived in China usually adhered to this decree. When they actively introduced European astronomy to the Chinese, most of them were cautious in their statements regarding astrology. However, not all Jesuits maintained this stance. Johann Adam Schall von Bell, a prominent Jesuit missionary, frequently mentioned European astrology in his writings. His attitude toward judicial astrology changed from firm opposition to active endorsement. As the Jesuit with the highest social and political status in the early Qing dynasty at that time, Schall's handling of judicial astrology attracted significant attention from the Qing government, Chinese native scholars, and fellow missionaries. The influence of this writing in China persisted even after the prohibition of Christianity during the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. Meanwhile, other missionaries questioned and attacked Schall's stance for an extended period. This research will examine Schall's writings regarding European astrology, to trace the process and context of his attitude change. This research will then demonstrate the implications of his attitude shift on people's thinking about Chinese and European astrology and the influence on Sino-Western cultural exchange
Biography
PhD Candidate, School of Chinese, the University of Hong Kong
Chu, Margaret
retired - nil
The Concept of Cheng: Theory and Practice
In the burgeoning age of artificial intelligence when human tasks from the physical and the mental could be performd not by us, when the booming of the internet has now snowballed private, public and ...
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The Concept of Cheng: Theory and Practice
Presenter
Chu, Margaret
retired - nil
Abstract
In the burgeoning age of artificial intelligence when human tasks from the physical and the mental could be performd not by us, when the booming of the internet has now snowballed private, public and official creativity from inventions to fabrications, it is ever more uncertain the place of ethics in society.
Historians of free societies, we have the luxury to indulge.
This study begins with an account of the concept of "cheng" by Zhu Xi, its definition in Chen Duanmeng's (1143-1191) XINGLI ZIYI for children, which was expanded by Chen Ruoyong (n.d.), and its explication in Chen Chun's (1159-1223) BEIXI ZIYI, a text for academy students also in Korea and Japan for a millenium.
The Zhu school extolled knowledge and practice. Did Zhu Xi lecture to the emperors and bring up this moral issue during policy discussions? How did the Neo-Confucians square the conceptual demands of "cheng" with their own political conduct? We shall explore. (155 words)
Biography
Margaret Chu was educated in the United Kingdom and the United States. She had taught variously in Asia and Europe, worked for think-tanks, NGOs and written as freelance.
Cui,Jianmin (崔建民)
Bureau of Scientific Research Management of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - Professor and Former Director of Bureau of Scientific Research Management of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences；Vice-President & Secretary-General of World Association for China Studies
China Studies from a Global Perspective and Exchange and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations
China Studies serves as a bridge for communication, exchange and mutual learning between China and the world, and is an important vehicle for telling China's story well. It is of great significance fo...
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China Studies from a Global Perspective and Exchange and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations
Presenter
Cui,Jianmin
Bureau of Scientific Research Management of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - Professor and Former Director of Bureau of Scientific Research Management of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences；Vice-President & Secretary-General of World Association for China Studies
Abstract
China Studies serves as a bridge for communication, exchange and mutual learning between China and the world, and is an important vehicle for telling China's story well. It is of great significance for promoting exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese civilization and world civilizations. Since ancient times, the attention, observation and research of Chinese civilization by countries around the world have never ceased. China Studies was formed against the backdrop of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. As China increasingly approaches the center of the world stage, China Studies is becoming a prominent discipline. China Studies from a global perspective will drive deeper and more lasting exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations. To carry out research on China Studies , on the one hand, it is necessary to study China based on China, build an independent knowledge system of China, and establish Sinology that is rooted in China, connects ancient and modern times, and is three-dimensional and comprehensive. On the other hand, we should look to the world to study China, critically absorb and learn from the research achievements of various countries on China.
Biography
CUI Jianmin, Professor and Former Director of Bureau of Scientific Research Management of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS), and Vice president of the World Association for China Studies (WACS). He has published more than 30 papers in top, authoritative and core journals, published two monographs, edited various books and proceedings. He has been successively in charge of a number of national, provincial and ministerial research projects, including key projects of the National Social Science Fund of China. He also serves as an expert in the evaluation of good teaching materials and courses for cadre education and training hosted by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. He is now responsible for the daily operation of the World Association of China Studies and international academic exchanges and cooperation. He has participated in the organization of the World Congress of China Studies, an international conference hosted by the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the CPC in 2023. The Youth Self-Protection Education program was awarded the Human Resources Development Award by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. He has been awarded the second and third prizes at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for his work on countermeasure information.
Cui, Shuqin (崔淑琴)
Bowdoin College - Professor
Ecological and Environmental Turns: (Re)mapping China’s Socioeconomic Landscape through the Lens of Ecocinema
Compelled by the relentless environmental crises afflicting our ever-changing planet, this manuscript aims to (re)map China’s socioeconomic landscape through the camera lens of ecocinema and the con...
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Ecological and Environmental Turns: (Re)mapping China’s Socioeconomic Landscape through the Lens of Ecocinema
Presenter
Cui, Shuqin
Bowdoin College - Professor
Abstract
Compelled by the relentless environmental crises afflicting our ever-changing planet, this manuscript aims to (re)map China’s socioeconomic landscape through the camera lens of ecocinema and the conceptual perspective of ecocriticism. The research is driven by several broad questions: How might we redefine the relationship between nature and culture to transcend binary oppositions and anthropocentric perspectives? How should we reconsider environmental issues as transnational and global interactions? And to what extent can research and teaching in the humanities provide students with the means to better understand the alarming changes in the world around us. In addressing these questions, the manuscript invites readers to shift away from an anthropocentric worldview towards ecological-environmental perspectives. It calls for pragmatic shifts in focus towards the environment, landscape, materiality, and the animal world. The environmental turn integrates the environment into historiography, arguing that human history—sociocultural and political—needs to be redefined in terms of human and non-human relations. The landscape turn arises from the alarming realization of the extent to which economic development and globalization have massively altered landscapes, often with unbearable and irreversible consequences. The material turn encourages examination of how the humanities have historically prioritized culture over nature, minds over bodies, and words over things. The animal turn advocates for scholarly and societal attention to non-human species, urging a reconsideration of how anthropocentric conventions define human-animal relationships. As a methodological approach, these "turns" utilize ecocriticism as a theoretical framework and ecocinema as a visual medium. When viewed from an ecocritical perspective, relations between humans and non-humans emerge as a world of interconnectedness and interdependence. Seeing the world through an ecocinematic lens, that is, from a non-human-centered point of view, generates an alternative film experience, fostering a deeper understanding of the intricate and often overlooked connections between all forms of life.
Biography
Shuqin Cui is Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College. In addition to an extensive list of book chapters and journal articles, she is the author of Eco-Environmental Turns: (Re)mapping China’s Sociocultural Landscape through Eco-cinema; Gendered Bodies: Toward a Women’s Visual Art in Contemporary China; Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema. Her research and teaching interests extend across interdisciplinary fields, such as film studies, visual culture studies, and environmental documentaries.
Fateh Halyna Ievgeniivna (方莉娜)
Hunan Normal University - Student PhD of Russian language and literature
Bodily cognitive metaphor in Chinese and Russian writers
The purpose of this article is to study the cognitive function of the body code in literary metaphors and the functioning of this code in the text. In the process of analyzing the metaphor of the body...
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Bodily cognitive metaphor in Chinese and Russian writers
Presenter
Fateh Halyna Ievgeniivna
Hunan Normal University - Student PhD of Russian language and literature
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to study the cognitive function of the body code in literary metaphors and the functioning of this code in the text. In the process of analyzing the metaphor of the body in the fiction, the role of the body as a cognitive tool in the construction of the text meaning is revealed. As a result of the analysis, it was possible to find out that the body code is an important means of influencing the text on the reader. Using the example of classical works by writers from Russia and China, the author examines how body metaphors are involved in the creation and transmission of textual meanings through sensory experience, symbols of movement and spatial perception. The results obtained confirm that the bodily code performs a number of cognitive functions in literary metaphors. And this, in turn, deepens the understanding of the text by readers and opens up new prospects for literary and critical activity.
Keywords: literary metaphor; body code; cognitive literary criticism; sensory experience; textual analysis, fiction.
Fidan, Giray
Ankara HBV University, Turkey
Keynote Speech
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Keynote Speech
Presenter
Fidan, Giray
Ankara HBV University, Turkey
Biography
Prof. Giray Fidan is a distinguished scholar from Ankara HBV University, Turkey, serving as a keynote speaker at WACS 9.
Gao,Ruoteng (高若腾)
中国河北省中央司法警官学院 - 学生
The Dynamic System and Rational Principles of Communication in the Era of Video Exchange ——Reflections on the Phenomenon of American "TikTok Refugees" Migrating to "rednote"
China's short-video platform **TikTok** rapidly expanded in the U.S., amassing **170 million users**, before facing a forced divestment ban imposed by the U.S. government. This triggered a mass migrat...
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The Dynamic System and Rational Principles of Communication in the Era of Video Exchange ——Reflections on the Phenomenon of American "TikTok Refugees" Migrating to "rednote"
Presenter
Gao,Ruoteng
中国河北省中央司法警官学院 - 学生
Abstract
China's short-video platform **TikTok** rapidly expanded in the U.S., amassing **170 million users**, before facing a forced divestment ban imposed by the U.S. government. This triggered a mass migration of American netizens to **Xiaohongshu** (Little Red Book), another Chinese internet platform, drawing widespread global attention. Through this incident, we can discern the underlying trends in human information dissemination—its driving forces and developmental logic—hidden beneath the surface of apparent randomness. It heralds the dawn of a new era in communication: **the AI-powered video exchange era**, marking a transformative shift in internet media from traditional formats to **AI-driven video communication**.
Biography
Gao Ruoteng, studying at the Central Judicial Police Officers College of China, has a strong interest in video communication power and its channels, attending the conference with Associate Professor Xu Zaiyuan and Dr. Zhang Yaxin and their team.
GUO WEI (郭伟)
University of Göttingen - Master
Chastity Ideals and Women's Livehoods in Liaodong during the Middle and Late Qing Dynasty - Comparing Liaodong Difangzhi with Jiaodong Difangzhi and Local Difangzhi from other Regions in Liaoning
This research analysis the Difangzhi from the Liaodong region during the middle and late Qing Dynasty, exploring the records related to women's chastity and livelihood. It reveals how historical texts...
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Chastity Ideals and Women's Livehoods in Liaodong during the Middle and Late Qing Dynasty - Comparing Liaodong Difangzhi with Jiaodong Difangzhi and Local Difangzhi from other Regions in Liaoning
Presenter
GUO WEI
University of Göttingen - Master
Abstract
This research analysis the Difangzhi from the Liaodong region during the middle and late Qing Dynasty, exploring the records related to women's chastity and livelihood. It reveals how historical texts constructed the image of women and reflected societal expectations at the time. By comparing the records from Liaodong with those from Jiaodong and Fengtian regions, this study shows that although Faithful Maiden were often portrayed as symbols of fidelity, they exhibited high adaptability and strategical behavior in facing life's challenges. This research adopts the perspective of everyday life history, focusing on how Faithful Maiden in the Liaoning region of late imperial China managed to maintain their livelihood and social status under societal and familial pressures. Through a detailed analysis of cases and narratives in the Difangzhi, this study not only complements the traditional narratives of women's history but also provides a new perspective on understanding the living conditions and social roles of women in the Qing Dynasty society.
Biography
Wei Guo is a Master's student in Modern Sinology at the University of Göttingen. She holds an MA in World History from Jilin University. Her research explores the intersections of gender, body, emotion, and media in modern and contemporary East Asia, with a focus on how historically shaped emotional regimes influence marginalized individuals—especially women. She employs methodologies from the history of emotions, feminist visual culture, and autoethnography to analyze affective spectatorship and agency. Her current work examines East Asian women’s consumption of erotic BL dramas as a form of emotional resistance under bodily and social constraints. She has presented her research at several academic conferences in China.
Haar, Ingo
Lanzhou University - Prof. Dr.
China-European Places of Memory - current and contemporary perspectives on European-Chinese cultural exchange
Places of Memory are playing an increasingly important role in transnational cultural exchanges. Shared or contrasting memories aid two or more parties from different nation-states to discover cultura...
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China-European Places of Memory - current and contemporary perspectives on European-Chinese cultural exchange
Presenter
Haar, Ingo
Lanzhou University - Prof. Dr.
Abstract
Places of Memory are playing an increasingly important role in transnational cultural exchanges. Shared or contrasting memories aid two or more parties from different nation-states to discover cultural and social commonalities and discern divides. A
new and deepened relationship is created by exchanging Places of Memory, through which a group possessing intercultural communication dynamics is created. The exchange of information and points of view, communicating symbols and rituals, including their differrancies and opposite meanings to one's culture, creates mutual trust via the outlined dialogue. This exchange and mutually formed trust form a path for two or more parties, originating at a point of native understanding to construct a new, shared experience through communication.
Furthermore, places of memory play an important role in identifying one's history in addition to that of other cultures. These Places of Memory are imperative to overcoming mutual stereotyping, ascriptions of other cultures, or other forms of aggressive or ignorant communication. The historiographical concept of Places of Memory is strongly suited to "foreign cultures" that have previously harbored enmity towards one another or wish to reduce their cultural, economic and social differences to redefine their relationships on a newly constructed yet more in-depth level.
There is an active academic-intellectual discussion within Europe
concerning common and separate Places of Memory. In contrast, Chinese-
European Places of Memory are a desideratum of cultural and social science
research despite Chinese-European history's many points of overlap and
commonalities. The cultural exchange between China and Europe should first be
explored and deepened to address this phenomenon. This panel deals with topics about looted art from Xinjiang in Humboldt Forum (Ingo Haar) and generally in Germany (Nicole Kuhn), Miao minority and Sam Pollard (Joe Kelly) , and Chinese migration in Germany (Liu Yue).
Biography
Ingo Haar is Professor of German Studies in the School of Foreign Literatures and Languages at Lanzhou University/Gansu. In his academic work, he focuses on modern and contem-porary European history, historiography and history of science, migration and forced migra-tion history, and Jewish studies with a wide variety of publications in the USA and Europe, such as handbooks, anthologies, and essays on social and cultural history as well as Holocaust research. In addition, he is now devoted to the history of the Jews in China, resettlement and extermination policy in Poland, memory policy research, and intercultural communication. His first book was Historians in National Socialism: German History and the "Volkstumskampf" in the East (2002, Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht). His last monograph was published in 2022 with the title Jewish Migration and Diversity in Vienna and Berlin 1667/71-1918 (Göttingen:Wallstein).
Han Yiran (韩祎然)
中央民族大学中国少数民族语言文学学院 - 博士研究生
Research on the Religious Beliefs of James Legge in China Behind the Term Question
Abstract：As a representative figure in the history of Sinology, the British Sinologist James Legge played a crucial role as the main spokesperson of the British Protestant missionary group during th...
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Research on the Religious Beliefs of James Legge in China Behind the Term Question
Presenter
Han Yiran
中央民族大学中国少数民族语言文学学院 - 博士研究生
Abstract
Abstract：As a representative figure in the history of Sinology, the British Sinologist James Legge played a crucial role as the main spokesperson of the British Protestant missionary group during the "Term Question" in the 19th century. It has reconstructed the Chinese religious belief system in the exploration of the relationships among "Emperor""Heaven" and "God". The research is dedicated to examining the doctrinal thoughts and theological concepts in the study of James Legge's religious beliefs in China from the dimensions of literature and history as well as name and reality. At the same time, by taking advantage of James Legge's Scottish national identity characteristics, the integrated characteristics of Chinese and English religious thoughts are explored from the perspectives of moral theology and moral philosophy.
Keywords: James Legge; Term Question; Religious Beliefs; Theological Interpretation
Biography
Personal Profile: My name is Han Yiran. As a doctoral student, I am currently studying the Comparative Literature and the World Literature at the School of Chinese Ethnic Minority Languages and Literatures, the Minzu University of China. My research direction includes Comparative Literature and World Literature, Translation Study about British and American Sinologists, International and Regional Studies. My Cell phone number is 15822831911, email is 778709764@qq.com.
Hao Wang (王浩)
University of Oxford - DPhil
“Future Poetics,” Secret Agents, and the Metaverse: The Temporal Consciousness of Contemporary Chinese Poetry Based on Self-Media
This paper explores the influence of self-media platforms on the time consciousness of contemporary Chinese poetry. As the digital revolution reshapes cultural production, Chinese self-media has emerg...
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“Future Poetics,” Secret Agents, and the Metaverse: The Temporal Consciousness of Contemporary Chinese Poetry Based on Self-Media
Presenter
Hao Wang
University of Oxford - DPhil
Abstract
This paper explores the influence of self-media platforms on the time consciousness of contemporary Chinese poetry. As the digital revolution reshapes cultural production, Chinese self-media has emerged as a significant space for the revival and reformation of poetry. However, contemporary Chinese poetics presented and disseminated via self-media have often reverted to conservative aesthetics and ideologies, blending "old" ideas with "new" technology. This phenomenon reflects a “time consciousness” that looks back at past poetic movements, such as the Chinese cultural enlightenment of the 1980s, which demonstrates a sense of historical and cultural nostalgia. In particular, this paper examines the “future poetics” debate that began in 2023, where poets and critics, using self-media platforms, sought to challenge the dominant norms and power structures within the contemporary Chinese poetry circle. However, this debate inadvertently resonates with past poetic discussions from the 1990s. In addition, the paper delves into the rise of video accounts like “Poetry Agent” and the online cultural event “Poetry 24 Hours.” Both leverage self-media technologies to explore the evolving role of Chinese poetry in public and digital spaces, but fail to effectively integrate new digital technologies in reshaping poetic concepts and dissemination. Instead, they fall into the established cultural and regulatory frameworks of the Chinese poetry community. By analyzing these three events, this paper highlights the ongoing tension between technological advances and poetic innovation in contemporary China, and underscores the importance of self-media in understanding the development of Chinese poetry.
Biography
Hao Wang, DPhil student in the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. His research interest includes:20th-century Chinese literature and visual arts; sinophone studies; post-colonial studies; critical theories and deconstruction; modern and post-modern poetry in Chinese, English and French; nationalism and cosmopolitanism.
Huang, Jing-Jia (黃敬家)
Department of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University 國立臺灣師範大學國文學系 - Professor 教授
Biography for Female Meditators：The Chan Historical Records Describe the Enlightened Female in the Tang and Song Dynasties
Presenting the history of religious activities of women from the perspective of their religious practices and establishing women’s own genealogy of practitioners can shed light on the role of women ...
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Biography for Female Meditators：The Chan Historical Records Describe the Enlightened Female in the Tang and Song Dynasties
Presenter
Huang, Jing-Jia
Department of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University 國立臺灣師範大學國文學系 - Professor 教授
Abstract
Presenting the history of religious activities of women from the perspective of their religious practices and establishing women’s own genealogy of practitioners can shed light on the role of women in Buddhism. Among the various sects of Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism has a more egalitarian gender attitude. However, there are extremely limited records about female Chan masters in Chan Buddhism lamp records. The stories of Chan nuns in the Tang Dynasty, such as the Liaoran nun and Shihji nun, are only a narrative that appears in the biographies of male Chan masters. It was not until the Song Dynasty that Chan nuns had independent biographies and a clear inheritance system in lamp records, but their number was small. More female figures of Chan Buddhism in the Song Dynasty were recorded in Chan Buddhism sketches. This study mainly compiles the female Chan practitioners recorded in Chan Buddhism lamp records and sketches during the Tang and Song Dynasties, including Chan nuns, elder female lay Chan practitioners, female lay practitioners, etc. This study explores the enlightenment process and Buddhism inheritance of these female Chan practitioners and understands their lives and their status in the genealogy of Chan Buddhism to further examine the changes or differences in female Chan practitioners from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, which may help to construct the history of women in medieval Chan Buddhism.
Biography
My name is Huang Jingjia. I have a Ph.D in the Department of Chinese at the National Taiwan Normal University and am currently a professor there. I mainly study the biographies of eminent monks during the Tang and Song Dynasties, Chan historical materials and culture, and studies on Buddhist women. I have published four academic research books and more than 40 academic papers.
Knüppel, Michael
Arctic Studies Center (ASC), Liaocheng University (LCU), Liaocheng, China - Professor for Language and Cultures of Norther Eurasia
The power of fear ‒ the identification of Gog and Magog with present and future China
In the course of dealing with the transfer of the concept of the end-time peoples / tribes Gog and Magog, which we encounter both in the Bible and in the Qur’ān, to historical and contemporary poli...
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The power of fear ‒ the identification of Gog and Magog with present and future China
Presenter
Knüppel, Michael
Arctic Studies Center (ASC), Liaocheng University (LCU), Liaocheng, China - Professor for Language and Cultures of Norther Eurasia
Abstract
In the course of dealing with the transfer of the concept of the end-time peoples / tribes Gog and Magog, which we encounter both in the Bible and in the Qur’ān, to historical and contemporary political entities ‒ in the recent past, Gog and Magog have been identified with the Napoleonic state as well as with the so-called ‘Third Reich’ (and Japan) or the Soviet Union ‒ but also with the history of the colonial-era fighting concept / pejorative of the so-called ‘Yellow Peril’, which, as is well known, has also been applied quite arbitrarily to East Asian peoples and empires, the speaker has repeatedly encountered endeavours in recent years to identify these apocalyptic powers with the present or future China and the supposedly inevitable future military conflicts with the ‘Middle Kingdom’ with the end-time battle for Meggido / Armageddon. What is remarkable here is that these recent identifications, which we find in abundance on the Internet today, are found in very different religious and cultural contexts and that the reception of the Gog-Magog legend seems to be suitable today as a universal metaphor of fear ‒ here for the fear of the uncertain, be it the uncertainty of the future or simply a diffuse existential fear coupled with xenophobic resentment. The forms in which this metaphor of fear is used in relation to China will be examined in the lecture.
Biography
Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Knüppel (*1967 in Kassel) has studied Tur¬kology and Altaistics as well as po¬li¬tical sciences, eth¬nology/ social anthropology, pre- and protohistory (European archaeology) and history of art in Göttingen and Hamburg. In 1998 he obtained a doctoral degree in Tur¬kology (Dr. phil.) from University of Hamburg and in 2007 in Social Anthropology / Ethnology (Dr. disc. soc.) from Georg-August-University in Göttingen. Furthermore, in summer 2016 he qualified as a professor (habilitation process) in the field of Turkology at Georg-August-Uni¬ver¬sität Göttingen, and was working since that time as an associate professor there. He has acquired valuable experience in research and teaching (teaching activity in the department of Turkology and Central Asian Studies at Georg-August-Uni¬ver¬si¬tät Göt¬tin¬gen in 2000-2011 and again in 2016-2018, as well as administering examinations of students in the context of „Europe Cul¬ture Stu¬dies“. Since October 1st, 2018 M. Knüppel is working as professor of Social Anthropology / Ethnology, Cultures, Languages and History of Siberia at the Arctic Studies Center (ASC), School of History, Culture and Tourism [now Foreign Language School] of Liaocheng University. His expertise covers Tungoslology, Turkology, “Paleo-Siberian” Studies, Social Anthropology / Ethnology, History of Sciences with focus on the studies on oriental languages, History of Religion and Altaistics (especially Tungus Languages, Cultures and History) as well as Paleosiberian studies. Beside his teaching activities in the Foreing Language School of LCU he covers practical experiences in the conceptual design, cooperation and editorial assistance of scientific projects. In addition he carried out several field researches (in Turkey, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, China, Ethiopia, Kasakhstan, Kirgistan and the Malaian archipelago), designed, planned and implemented exhibitions and (exhibition-)catalogues as well as conferences and symposia, gave hundreds of lectures in numerous countries, and published more than two dozens of monographs and hundreds of articles, reviews and miscellanea. He was and is editor/co-editor of several scientific journals: from 2004-2006 of “Göttinger Beiträge zur Asienforschung”, since 2006 of “Sibirische Studien. Sibirische Studien”, from 2012-2015 M. Knüppel was a member of the editorial board of “Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia” (SEC), since 2011 of “Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis”, since 2018 of “北冰洋研究. Arctic Studies” (Liáochéng), “Journal of Oriental and African Studies” (JOAS) and “Folia Orientalia” (FO) etc.
