(See English below)
Unser Stipendiat Herr TANG Sanjiao (University of Auckland, Neuseeland) hält am 14. Mai ab 18 Uhr einen Vortrag zu seinem aktuellen Forschungsthema “Lives in Mao-Era Militias under the Mass Mobilisation and Militarisation Context” im Simon-Bolivar-Saal bzw. online via Webex. Der Vortrag findet in Kooperation mit der SBB Wissenswerkstatt statt, da Herr Tang Sanjiao derzeit im Rahmen eines Forschungsaufenthaltes, finanziert über das Stipendienprogramm der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, an der Staatsbibliothek forscht.
In China today, the younger generations are having militarised experiences. Admittedly, military training is a routine thing for students in many countries. Currently, the reviving nationalist trend is making the Chinese young people’s military training different. On the video-sharing platforms popular in China, such as Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok), with keywords like “students’ military training,” tens of thousands of videos are well-received. As vividly shown in the videos, the Chinese young people, including children in kindergartens, were learning to have simulative combat with imaginary enemies. Indulging them in burning passion, the younger generations feel as if they were glorious soldiers fighting for the nation.
Surprisingly, many of these young people’s grandparents had paralleling militarised lives when they were young. It was the experiences of being involved in the Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation, becoming members of Mao’s militias. In the early 1960s, despite the famine causing tens of millions of deaths, the country was celebrating its militias nationwide maintaining a scale of over two hundred million members. In the mid-1960s, Chinese residents were mobilised to “prepare earlier for fighting a war, a big war, and even a nuclear war.” Resulting from the mass mobilisation and militarisation, as demonstrated by a well-known slogan, seven hundred million Chinese people had all “become soldiers” (qiyi renmin qiyi bing). While it was rhetorically exaggerating, it indicated that the younger generations in Mao’s China were involved as the core forces in the militias.
Through revisiting the experiences of joining Mao-era militias, this research aims to reconsider the legacies of Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation. How did the lives in militias shaped their adolescence and early adulthood physically, psychologically, and profoundly? Benefitting from unique sources in the Berlin State Library, this project intends to answer these questions.
The results of the project contribute to understanding the mass-based legacies of Mao-era mobilisation and militarisation. Paying attention to the transgenerational resonance on young people’s involvement in war-preparing campaigns, it helps rethink today’s China, which is an urgent task for not only academics but also analysts and policy-makers worldwide.
Die Vortragssprache ist Englisch. Wir bitten Sie um Voranmeldung für den Vortrag unter: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de und eine kurze Mitteilung, falls Sie einen barrierefreien Zugang benötigen. Die Veranstaltung wird gefilmt.*
Der Vortrag wird darüber hinaus via Webex gestreamt und aufgezeichnet. Sie können am Vortrag über Ihren Browser ohne Installation einer Software teilnehmen. Klicken Sie dazu unten auf „Zum Vortrag“, folgen dem Link „Über Browser teilnehmen“ und geben Ihren Namen ein.
Alle bislang angekündigten Vorträge finden Sie hier. Die weiteren Termine kündigen wir in unserem Blog und auf unserem X-Account an.
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The scholarship holder Mr. TANG Sanjiao (University of Auckland, New Zealand) will give a lecture on his current research topic “Lives in Mao-Era Militias under the Mass Mobilisation and Militarisation Context” in the Simon-Bolivar-Saal and online via Webex on 14 May from 6 pm. This lecture will take place in cooperation with the Wissenswerkstatt, as he is currently working at the Staatsbibliothek as part of a research stay funded by the grant program of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
In China today, the younger generations are having militarised experiences. Admittedly, military training is a routine thing for students in many countries. Currently, the reviving nationalist trend is making the Chinese young people’s military training different. On the video-sharing platforms popular in China, such as Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok), with keywords like “students’ military training,” tens of thousands of videos are well-received. As vividly shown in the videos, the Chinese young people, including children in kindergartens, were learning to have simulative combat with imaginary enemies. Indulging them in burning passion, the younger generations feel as if they were glorious soldiers fighting for the nation.
Surprisingly, many of these young people’s grandparents had paralleling militarised lives when they were young. It was the experiences of being involved in the Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation, becoming members of Mao’s militias. In the early 1960s, despite the famine causing tens of millions of deaths, the country was celebrating its militias nationwide maintaining a scale of over two hundred million members. In the mid-1960s, Chinese residents were mobilised to “prepare earlier for fighting a war, a big war, and even a nuclear war.” Resulting from the mass mobilisation and militarisation, as demonstrated by a well-known slogan, seven hundred million Chinese people had all “become soldiers” (qiyi renmin qiyi bing). While it was rhetorically exaggerating, it indicated that the younger generations in Mao’s China were involved as the core forces in the militias.
Through revisiting the experiences of joining Mao-era militias, this research aims to reconsider the legacies of Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation. How did the lives in militias shaped their adolescence and early adulthood physically, psychologically, and profoundly? Benefitting from unique sources in the Berlin State Library, this project intends to answer these questions.
The results of the project contribute to understanding the mass-based legacies of Mao-era mobilisation and militarisation. Paying attention to the transgenerational resonance on young people’s involvement in war-preparing campaigns, it helps rethink today’s China, which is an urgent task for not only academics but also analysts and policy-makers worldwide.
The lecture will be held in English. We kindly ask you to register in advance at: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de, and to let us know if you need barrier-free access. The event will be filmed.*
The lecture will also be streamed and recorded via Webex. You can take part in the lecture using your browser without having to install a special software. Please click on the respective button “To the lecture” below, follow the link “join via browser” (“über Browser teilnehmen”), and enter your name.
You can find all previously announced lectures here. We will announce further dates in our blog and on X.
*Mit Ihrer Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung räumen Sie der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und ihren nachgeordneten Einrichtungen kostenlos alle Nutzungsrechte an den Bildern/Videos ein, die während der Veranstaltung von Ihnen angefertigt wurden. Dies schließt auch die kommerzielle Nutzung ein. Diese Einverständniserklärung gilt räumlich und zeitlich unbeschränkt und für die Nutzung in allen Medien, sowohl für analoge als auch für digitale Verwendungen. Sie umfasst auch die Bildbearbeitung sowie die Verwendung der Bilder für Montagen. / By participating, you grant the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and its subordinate institutions free of charge all rights of usage of pictures and videos taken of you during this lecture presentation. This declaration of consent is valid in terms of time and space without restrictions and for usage in all media, including analogue and digital usage. It includes image processing and the usage of photos in composite illustrations. German law will apply.
CrossAsia Talks: Dr. Xueqi Jiang 18.07.2024
/in Newsletter 32, Veranstaltungen, Vortragsreihe "CrossAsia Talks"/by CrossAsia(See English below)
Wir freuen uns, Ihnen den Vortrag von Dr. Xueqi Jiang (Universität Nanjing, China) “Zur abenteuerlichen Lebensgeschichte der beiden ersten Chinesen in Deutschland” am 18.07.2024 ab 16 Uhr ankündigen zu dürfen. Herr Jiang wird einen Einblick in die Leben von Asseng und Ahok geben und ihre Leben in die Zeitgeschichte einordnen.
Asseng und Ahok, beide in den 1790er Jahren am Perlflussdelta geboren, waren die ersten Chinesen, die sich in Deutschland langfristig aufhielten. Seit ihrer Ankunft Ende 1821 in Hamburg wurden sie von einem holländischen Kaufmann herumgeführt und öffentlich gegen Geld ausgestellt. Obwohl es sich nur um zwei vergleichsweise unbedeutende Personen handelte und eine sogenannte “Menschenausstellung” schon nach dem damaligen Maßstab als entwürdigend empfunden wurde, konnten die beiden Chinesen die Aufmerksamkeit des gelehrten Publikums in Deutschland auf sich ziehen und kamen in persönliche Berührung mit renommierten Persönlichkeiten wie Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, zahlreichen deutschen Wissenschaftlern, darunter Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, sowie den preußischen Königen. Der preußische König Friedrich Wilhelm III, der ein gewisses Interesse an den beiden Chinesen zu haben schien, ließ diese in Halle christliche Glaubenslehren lernen und feierlich taufen. Danach wurden die zwei Konvertiten zunächst in Sanssouci als Gärtner und dann am Königshof als Lakaien angestellt. Einer der Chinesen (Ahok) starb hochbetagt in Potsdam, während es dem anderen (Asseng) gelang, nicht nur aus Preußen auszureisen, sondern auch eine Weltumrundung zu vollenden. Die Familienbriefe des Letzteren lassen die Gestalt eines eingefleischten Abenteurers und unermüdlichen Weltenbummlers erkennen.
Die Vortragssprache ist Deutsch. Wir bitten Sie um Voranmeldung für den Vortrag unter: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de. Die Veranstaltung wird aufgezeichnet.*
Der Vortrag wird via Webex gestreamt. Sie können am Vortrag über Ihren Browser ohne Installation einer Software teilnehmen. Klicken Sie dazu unten auf „Zum Vortrag“, folgen dem Link „Über Browser teilnehmen“ und geben Ihren Namen ein.
Alle bislang angekündigten Vorträge finden Sie hier. Die weiteren Termine kündigen wir in unserem Blog, auf unserem X-Account und Mastodon an.
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We are pleased to announce the lecture by Dr. Xueqi Jiang (University of Nanjing, China) “On the adventurous life story of the first two Chinese in Germany” on July 18th 2024 from 4 pm. Mr. Jiang will give an insight into the lives of Asseng and Ahok and place their lives in the history of their time.
Asseng and Ahok, both born on the Pearl River Delta in the 1790s, were the first Chinese to stay in Germany on a long-term basis. Since their arrival in Hamburg at the end of 1821, they were shown around by a Dutch merchant and exhibited publicly for money. Although they were only two comparatively insignificant people and a “human exhibition” was considered degrading even by the standards of the time, the two Chinese were able to attract the attention of the learned public in Germany and came into personal contact with renowned personalities such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, numerous German scientists, including Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and the Prussian kings. The Prussian King Frederick William III, who seemed to have a certain interest in the two Chinese, had them taught Christian doctrines in Halle and solemnly baptized. The two converts were then employed first as gardeners in Sanssouci and then as footmen at the royal court. One of the Chinese (Ahok) died at a ripe old age in Potsdam, while the other (Asseng) not only managed to leave Prussia, but also completed a round-the-world trip. The family letters of the latter reveal the character of an inveterate adventurer and tireless globetrotter.
The lecture will be held in German. We kindly ask you to register in advance at: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de. The event will be recorded.*
The lecture will also be streamed via Webex. You can take part in the lecture using your browser without having to install a special software. Please click on the respective button “To the lecture” below, follow the link “join via browser” (“über Browser teilnehmen”), and enter your name.
You can find all previously announced lectures here. We will announce further dates in our blog, on X and Mastodon.
*Mit Ihrer Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung räumen Sie der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und ihren nachgeordneten Einrichtungen kostenlos alle Nutzungsrechte an den Bildern/Videos ein, die während der Veranstaltung von Ihnen angefertigt wurden. Dies schließt auch die kommerzielle Nutzung ein. Diese Einverständniserklärung gilt räumlich und zeitlich unbeschränkt und für die Nutzung in allen Medien, sowohl für analoge als auch für digitale Verwendungen. Sie umfasst auch die Bildbearbeitung sowie die Verwendung der Bilder für Montagen. / By participating, you grant the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and its subordinate institutions free of charge all rights of usage of pictures and videos taken of you during this lecture presentation. This declaration of consent is valid in terms of time and space without restrictions and for usage in all media, including analogue and digital usage. It includes image processing and the usage of photos in composite illustrations. German law will apply.
Veranstaltungshinweis: Charting the European D-SEA – Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies – Workshops und Konferenz
/in Newsletter 32, SBB/by CrossAsiaLiebe CrossAsia Nutzer:innen,
(See English below)
die Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin und das Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG) führen gemeinsam die Veranstaltung „Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies” durch, die vom 8. bis 12. Juli in Berlin stattfinden wird.
Ziel der Konferenz ist es, einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der digitalen Forschung in den Ostasienwissenschaften in Europa zu geben, eine europäische Gemeinschaft von Ostasienwissenschaftlern aufzubauen, die an digitaler Forschung interessiert sind, und eine Plattform für europäische Wissenschaftler zu bieten, um sich über die wichtigsten Methoden und Ressourcen zu informieren, die in innovativen digitalen Projekten in den Ostasienwissenschaften weltweit entwickelt wurden.
Programm:
Ort: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Potsdamer Straße, Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin
Das vollständige Programm der Workshops und die Abstracts finden Sie hier. Das Konferenzprogramm finden Sie hier. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auch auf der Homepage des MPI.
Bitte beachten Sie, dass die Konferenzsprache Englisch sein wird und die Teilnehmer:innen der Workshops ihren eigenen Laptop mitbringen sollten.
Nutzen Sie diese Gelegenheit, um sich mit führenden Experten und Forschern zu vernetzen und aktuelle Trends und Methoden in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften kennenzulernen. Auch für Kurzentschlossene sind Möglichkeiten zur Teilnahme vorhanden. Bitte setzen Sie sich hierzu mit Frau Jing HU in Verbindung.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme!
Ihr CrossAsia Team
Dear CrossAsia users,
The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) are jointly organising the event “Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies“, which will take place in Berlin from 8 to 12 July.
The aim of the conference is to provide an overview of the current state of digital scholarship in East Asian Studies in Europe, to build a European community of East Asian scholars interested in digital scholarship, and to provide a platform for European scholars to learn about the key methods and resources developed in innovative digital projects in East Asian Studies worldwide.
Programme:
Location: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Potsdamer Straße, Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin
The full programme of workshops and abstracts can be found here. The conference programme can be found here. Further information can also be found on the MPI homepage.
Please note that the conference language will be English and that workshop participants should bring their own laptop.
Take this opportunity to network with leading experts and researchers and learn about current trends and methods in the digital humanities. There are also opportunities for last-minute participants. Please get in touch with Ms Jing HU.
We look forward to your participation!
Your CrossAsia Team
Neuer Testzugang: Chinese Dictionary Compendium bis zum 31.12.2024
/in Aktuelle Testzugänge, Aktuelles, Datenbanken, Newsletter 32/by Duncan PatersonDas Chinese Dictionary Compendium bietet Zugang zu 120 Bänden chinesischer Wörterbücher und Nachschlagewerke. Herzstück ist eine überarbeitete Auflage des Hanyu Da Cidian (Chongxin Paiban) 漢語大詞典（重新排版）. CrossAsia Nutzer erhalten bis zum 31.12.2024 Zugang via CrossAsia Link.
Die Datenbank bietet eine Vielzahl einsprachiger Wörterbücher, sowie vielfältige Möglichkeiten der Zeichen- bzw. Phrasensuche.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihr/Euer Feedback.
Neue Datenbank lizenziert: Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics
/in Aktuelles, Datenbanken, Newsletter 32/by CrossAsia(English below)
Wir freuen uns Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass der FID Asien und der FID Nahost gemeinsam eine dauerhafte Lizenzierung der Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics ermöglicht haben. Dieses Produkt steht Ihnen ab sofort als Nationallizenz zur Verfügung.
Die Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics (Verlag Brill) ist ein umfassendes Nachschlagewerk, welches Ihnen Artikel von renommierten Expert*innen der Turkologie zu einer Vielzahl von Themen bietet. Sie erhalten Informationen zu allen Aspekten der Turksprachen vom Alttürkischen bis hin zu den heute gesprochenen Sprachvarietäten.
Als wichtige Referenzquelle auf dem Gebiet der Turksprachen stehen Ihnen nun unter anderem folgende Themen zur Verfügung:
Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie auf der Webseite des Anbieters: https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/etlo
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We are pleased to announce that the FID Asia and the FID Middle East have been able to jointly provide a permanent licence for the Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics. This product is now available to you as a national licence.
The Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics (publisher Brill) is a comprehensive reference work that offers you articles by renowned experts in Turkic studies on a wide range of topics. You will find information on all aspects of the Turkic languages from Old Turkic to the language varieties spoken today.
As an important reference source in the field of Turkic languages, these topics and more are now available to you:
Further information is available on the provider’s website: https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/etlo
CrossAsia Talk: Forrest McSweeney 20.06.2024
/in Aktuelles, Veranstaltungen, Vortragsreihe "CrossAsia Talks"/by CrossAsia(See English below)
Im Rahmen seines Projektes “Medicine at Arms: Medicine, the State, and the Military in Imperial and Republican China” forscht unser Referent Herr Forrest McSweeney als SPK-Stipendiat an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in der Ostasienabteilung. Er wird das Thema am Donnerstag, den 20.06.2024, ab 18 Uhr in seinem Vortrag “Military Medical Legacy: The Impact of Military Drug Distribution on the Pharmaceutical Field in Qing and Early Republican China” genauer vorstellen. Der Vortrag wird über Webex gestreamt.
This presentation will focus on the impact of military drug distribution in the 18th century high-Qing on medical discourse and practice through the 19th century and into the Republican Period. The period from the late 18th to early 19th century was one of continued territorial expansion and rebellion suppression by the Qing empire under the reigns of the emperors Qianlong (1735-1796) and Jiaqing (1796-1820). To maintain the health of their soldiers, the Qing maintained a continuous pipeline of single-ingredient drugs from provincial markets to its Green Standards garrisons lüyingbing 綠營兵, particularly in rebellious areas in southern China. The Qing emperors also purchased ready-made formulas chengyao 成藥 from Beijing-based bulk pharmaceutical firms such as the Tongrentang 同仁堂 and Heniantang 鶴年堂pharmacies and distributed them as honorary conferrals to Manchu Eight Banners baqi 八旗 colonists and soldiers stationed in Xinjiang and Mongolia. Through the early Qing, the imperial state underwrote a vast subsidy to the private pharmaceutical industry, promoting both drug therapy and the products of targeted firms.
There remains several questions about these developments, though, such as what these drugs were used for? Did their soldierly use correspond to their application in larger medical discourse? Did Qing drug distribution enhance the profiles of specific drugs over those of others in medical literature? Most scholarship has tended to portray the Qing as the period when the influence of the Chinese dynastic state over medical discourse collapsed while the field of medicine in China became an unregulated free-for-all. In this talk I will go over the limitations of this interpretation. I will demonstrate the impact of military drug distribution on Qing medical publishing and explore the varied use of military formulae at the level of the individual practitioner visible in medical manuscripts at the Berlin Library. The connection between the military and medical services was so implicit by the late Qing, that military imagery was used extensively in patent medicine advertisements in the early 20th century, and the Nationalist army employed traditional herbs up to World War II.
Die Vortragssprache ist Englisch. Bei Fragen kontaktieren Sie uns unter: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de.
Der Vortrag wird via Webex gestreamt*. Sie können am Vortrag über Ihren Browser ohne Installation einer Software teilnehmen. Klicken Sie dazu unten auf „Zum Vortrag“, folgen dem Link „Über Browser teilnehmen“ und geben Ihren Namen ein.
Alle bislang angekündigten Vorträge finden Sie hier. Die weiteren Termine kündigen wir in unserem Blog und auf unserem X-Account an.
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As part of his research project ‘Medicine at Arms: Medicine, the State, and the Military in Imperial and Republican China’, our lecturer Mr Forrest McSweeney is a SPK fellow at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin at the East Asia Department. He will present his current research in more detail on Thursday, June 20, 2024, from 6 pm with the lecture ‘Military Medical Legacy: The Impact of Military Drug Distribution on the Pharmaceutical Field in Qing and Early Republican China’. The lecture will be streamed via Webex.
This presentation will focus on the impact of military drug distribution in the 18th century high-Qing on medical discourse and practice through the 19th century and into the Republican Period. The period from the late 18th to early 19th century was one of continued territorial expansion and rebellion suppression by the Qing empire under the reigns of the emperors Qianlong (1735-1796) and Jiaqing (1796-1820). To maintain the health of their soldiers, the Qing maintained a continuous pipeline of single-ingredient drugs from provincial markets to its Green Standards garrisons lüyingbing 綠營兵, particularly in rebellious areas in southern China. The Qing emperors also purchased ready-made formulas chengyao 成藥 from Beijing-based bulk pharmaceutical firms such as the Tongrentang 同仁堂 and Heniantang 鶴年堂 pharmacies and distributed them as honorary conferrals to Manchu Eight Banners baqi 八旗 colonists and soldiers stationed in Xinjiang and Mongolia. Through the early Qing, the imperial state underwrote a vast subsidy to the private pharmaceutical industry, promoting both drug therapy and the products of targeted firms.
There remains several questions about these developments, though, such as what these drugs were used for? Did their soldierly use correspond to their application in larger medical discourse? Did Qing drug distribution enhance the profiles of specific drugs over those of others in medical literature? Most scholarship has tended to portray the Qing as the period when the influence of the Chinese dynastic state over medical discourse collapsed while the field of medicine in China became an unregulated free-for-all. In this talk I will go over the limitations of this interpretation. I will demonstrate the impact of military drug distribution on Qing medical publishing and explore the varied use of military formulae at the level of the individual practitioner visible in medical manuscripts at the Berlin Library. The connection between the military and medical services was so implicit by the late Qing, that military imagery was used extensively in patent medicine advertisements in the early 20th century, and the Nationalist army employed traditional herbs up to World War II.
The lecture will be held in English. If you have any questions, please contact us: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de.
The lecture will be streamed via Webex*. You can take part in the lecture using your browser without having to install a special software. Please click on the respective button “To the lecture” below, follow the link “join via browser” (“über Browser teilnehmen”), and enter your name.
You can find all previously announced lectures here. We will announce further dates in our blog and on X.
*Mit Ihrer Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung räumen Sie der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und ihren nachgeordneten Einrichtungen kostenlos alle Nutzungsrechte an den Bildern/Videos ein, die während der Veranstaltung von Ihnen angefertigt wurden. Dies schließt auch die kommerzielle Nutzung ein. Diese Einverständniserklärung gilt räumlich und zeitlich unbeschränkt und für die Nutzung in allen Medien, sowohl für analoge als auch für digitale Verwendungen. Sie umfasst auch die Bildbearbeitung sowie die Verwendung der Bilder für Montagen. / By participating, you grant the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and its subordinate institutions free of charge all rights of usage of pictures and videos taken of you during this lecture presentation. This declaration of consent is valid in terms of time and space without restrictions and for usage in all media, including analogue and digital usage. It includes image processing and the usage of photos in composite illustrations. German law will apply.
New Database Trial – Media Korean Studies
/in Aktuelle Testzugänge, Aktuelles, Datenbanken, Newsletter 32/by CrossAsia(English below)
Liebe CrossAsia-Nutzer:innen,
Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass wir einen Testzugang zu Media Korean Studies (LINK) eingerichtet haben, einer Datenbank, die eine umfangreiche Sammlung koreanischer literarischer Werke mit mehr als 4.000 Bänden bietet.
CrossAsia-Nutzer können bis zum 10. Juli auf folgende Materialien zugreifen:
Wir bitten Sie, diese Ressourcen während der Testphase (bis zum 10. Juli) zu nutzen und freuen uns sehr über Ihr Feedback oder Kommentare. Ihre Rückmeldung helfen uns dabei, zu entscheiden, ob wir ein Abonnement abschließen werden.
Ihr / Euer
X-asia Team
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Dear Users,
We are excited to announce that we have arranged trial access to Media Korean Studies (LINK), a database offering an extensive collection of Korean literary works with more than 4,000 volumes.
CrossAsia users can access the following materials before July 10th:
We strongly encourage you to explore these resources during the trial period (before July 10th) and would deeply appreciate any feedback or comments. Your input will assist us in evaluating the potential for a future subscription.
Yours
CrossAsia team
Achtung! Service Unterbrechung CrossAsia 05.06.24 – 09.06.24
/in Aktuelles, Services/by CrossAsiaLiebe CrossAsia Nutzende,
wegen Wartungsarbeiten an unserer Infrastruktur für geplante Serviceerweiterungen kommt es zwischen Mittwoch, dem 05.06.2024, ab 14 Uhr, bis einschließlich Sonntag, dem 09.06.2024 zu einer Unterbrechung aller unserer Web-Dienste. Auch per Telefon und E-Mail sind wir in diesem Zeitraum nicht erreichbar. Wir bitten vielmals um Entschuldigung für die Unannehmlichkeiten und bitten um Ihr/Euer Verständnis. Über unsere X und Mastodon Accounts halten wir Sie/euch auf dem Laufenden.
Ihr/Euer CrossAsia Team
Dear CrossAsia Users,
due to maintenance work on our infrastructure for planned service enhancements, all our web services will be interrupted between Wednesday, 5 June 2024, from 2 p.m. up to and including Sunday, 9 June 2024. We will also be unavailable by phone and email during this period. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience and ask for your understanding. We will keep you up to date via our X and Mastodon accounts.
Your CrossAsia Team
CrossAsia Talks: TANG Sanjiao 14.05.2024
/in Aktuelles, Veranstaltungen, Vortragsreihe "CrossAsia Talks"/by Antje Ziemer(See English below)
Unser Stipendiat Herr TANG Sanjiao (University of Auckland, Neuseeland) hält am 14. Mai ab 18 Uhr einen Vortrag zu seinem aktuellen Forschungsthema “Lives in Mao-Era Militias under the Mass Mobilisation and Militarisation Context” im Simon-Bolivar-Saal bzw. online via Webex. Der Vortrag findet in Kooperation mit der SBB Wissenswerkstatt statt, da Herr Tang Sanjiao derzeit im Rahmen eines Forschungsaufenthaltes, finanziert über das Stipendienprogramm der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, an der Staatsbibliothek forscht.
In China today, the younger generations are having militarised experiences. Admittedly, military training is a routine thing for students in many countries. Currently, the reviving nationalist trend is making the Chinese young people’s military training different. On the video-sharing platforms popular in China, such as Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok), with keywords like “students’ military training,” tens of thousands of videos are well-received. As vividly shown in the videos, the Chinese young people, including children in kindergartens, were learning to have simulative combat with imaginary enemies. Indulging them in burning passion, the younger generations feel as if they were glorious soldiers fighting for the nation.
Surprisingly, many of these young people’s grandparents had paralleling militarised lives when they were young. It was the experiences of being involved in the Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation, becoming members of Mao’s militias. In the early 1960s, despite the famine causing tens of millions of deaths, the country was celebrating its militias nationwide maintaining a scale of over two hundred million members. In the mid-1960s, Chinese residents were mobilised to “prepare earlier for fighting a war, a big war, and even a nuclear war.” Resulting from the mass mobilisation and militarisation, as demonstrated by a well-known slogan, seven hundred million Chinese people had all “become soldiers” (qiyi renmin qiyi bing). While it was rhetorically exaggerating, it indicated that the younger generations in Mao’s China were involved as the core forces in the militias.
Through revisiting the experiences of joining Mao-era militias, this research aims to reconsider the legacies of Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation. How did the lives in militias shaped their adolescence and early adulthood physically, psychologically, and profoundly? Benefitting from unique sources in the Berlin State Library, this project intends to answer these questions.
The results of the project contribute to understanding the mass-based legacies of Mao-era mobilisation and militarisation. Paying attention to the transgenerational resonance on young people’s involvement in war-preparing campaigns, it helps rethink today’s China, which is an urgent task for not only academics but also analysts and policy-makers worldwide.
Die Vortragssprache ist Englisch. Wir bitten Sie um Voranmeldung für den Vortrag unter: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de und eine kurze Mitteilung, falls Sie einen barrierefreien Zugang benötigen. Die Veranstaltung wird gefilmt.*
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The scholarship holder Mr. TANG Sanjiao (University of Auckland, New Zealand) will give a lecture on his current research topic “Lives in Mao-Era Militias under the Mass Mobilisation and Militarisation Context” in the Simon-Bolivar-Saal and online via Webex on 14 May from 6 pm. This lecture will take place in cooperation with the Wissenswerkstatt, as he is currently working at the Staatsbibliothek as part of a research stay funded by the grant program of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
In China today, the younger generations are having militarised experiences. Admittedly, military training is a routine thing for students in many countries. Currently, the reviving nationalist trend is making the Chinese young people’s military training different. On the video-sharing platforms popular in China, such as Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok), with keywords like “students’ military training,” tens of thousands of videos are well-received. As vividly shown in the videos, the Chinese young people, including children in kindergartens, were learning to have simulative combat with imaginary enemies. Indulging them in burning passion, the younger generations feel as if they were glorious soldiers fighting for the nation.
Surprisingly, many of these young people’s grandparents had paralleling militarised lives when they were young. It was the experiences of being involved in the Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation, becoming members of Mao’s militias. In the early 1960s, despite the famine causing tens of millions of deaths, the country was celebrating its militias nationwide maintaining a scale of over two hundred million members. In the mid-1960s, Chinese residents were mobilised to “prepare earlier for fighting a war, a big war, and even a nuclear war.” Resulting from the mass mobilisation and militarisation, as demonstrated by a well-known slogan, seven hundred million Chinese people had all “become soldiers” (qiyi renmin qiyi bing). While it was rhetorically exaggerating, it indicated that the younger generations in Mao’s China were involved as the core forces in the militias.
Through revisiting the experiences of joining Mao-era militias, this research aims to reconsider the legacies of Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation. How did the lives in militias shaped their adolescence and early adulthood physically, psychologically, and profoundly? Benefitting from unique sources in the Berlin State Library, this project intends to answer these questions.
The results of the project contribute to understanding the mass-based legacies of Mao-era mobilisation and militarisation. Paying attention to the transgenerational resonance on young people’s involvement in war-preparing campaigns, it helps rethink today’s China, which is an urgent task for not only academics but also analysts and policy-makers worldwide.
The lecture will be held in English. We kindly ask you to register in advance at: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de, and to let us know if you need barrier-free access. The event will be filmed.*
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*Mit Ihrer Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung räumen Sie der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und ihren nachgeordneten Einrichtungen kostenlos alle Nutzungsrechte an den Bildern/Videos ein, die während der Veranstaltung von Ihnen angefertigt wurden. Dies schließt auch die kommerzielle Nutzung ein. Diese Einverständniserklärung gilt räumlich und zeitlich unbeschränkt und für die Nutzung in allen Medien, sowohl für analoge als auch für digitale Verwendungen. Sie umfasst auch die Bildbearbeitung sowie die Verwendung der Bilder für Montagen. / By participating, you grant the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and its subordinate institutions free of charge all rights of usage of pictures and videos taken of you during this lecture presentation. This declaration of consent is valid in terms of time and space without restrictions and for usage in all media, including analogue and digital usage. It includes image processing and the usage of photos in composite illustrations. German law will apply.
Testzugang Airiti / Ainosco Search bis zum 30.06.2024
/in Aktuelle Testzugänge, Newsletter 32, Uncategorized/by Duncan PatersonDer taiwanische Anbieter Airiti hat einen weiteren Testzugang freigeschaltet. Bis zum 30.06.2024 können CrossAsia Nutzende erweiterte Suchmöglichkeiten via Ainosco Search nutzen. Diese erreicht man über den 圖書 button im airiti library Portal:
oder direkt unter ainoscosearch.com:
In Ainsoco indexierte Treffer bieten erweiterte Funktionen, um das Auffinden von elektronischen Volltexten und Druckausgaben in z.B. Worldcat zu erleichtern.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihr/Euer Feedback
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The Provider Airiti from Taiwan has opened up a new trial. Until 30.06.2024 CrossAsia users can utilitze extended search functionality via Ainosoco search. This is integrated into the airiti library portal via the 圖書 button:
or directly via ainoscosearch.com:
Ainosco index items offer advanced searches for locating electronic fulltexts, and print editions in e.g. worldcat.
We are looking forward to your feedback.
CrossAsia Classroom: Digital Humanities Lunchtalk
/in Aktuelles, Newsletter 31, SBB, Schulungen, Veranstaltungen/by Nicole TerneWir möchten Sie herzlich zu einer neuen Veranstaltungsreihe innerhalb des CrossAsia Classrooms einladen: den Digital Humanities Lunchtalks. Ab nächster Woche wird es bis März 2024 einmal im Monat um 12 Uhr einen kurzen Impulsvortrag zu Themen der Digital Humanities geben, der ca. 30 Minuten dauern wird. Selbstverständlich wird es auch die Möglichkeit für Fragen und Diskussionen geben.
Die Veranstaltung findet online über WebEx statt, alle Termine der Digital Humanities Lunchtalks finden Sie auf der CrossAsia Classrooms Website.
Bitte geben Sie die Informationen auch gerne an interessierte Kolleg:innen weiter, wir freuen uns sehr auf eine rege Teilnahme.
Nächster Lunchtalk: