Program

September 20th

11.00 Campus Tour (Meeting in Hotel Lobby)

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Welcome: Vice-President of Tsinghua-University (Beijing)

13.45 Welcome: Zhang Guogang (Beijing)

14.00 Introduction: Susan Richter (Heidelberg)

Panel 1: Comparison and Flows of Administrative Ideas between Europe and China
Chair: Guido Mühlemann (Zürich)

14.30
Elisabeth Kaske (Pittsburgh): Bureaucratic Efficiency and the Question of Office Selling in Late Qing China

15.15
Wang Shuo (Heidelberg/Freiburg): The Canton System. A Window, which didn´t want to open?

16.00 Coffee Break

16.30
Wu Liwei (Beijing): Discourses on Administrative Institutions in Europe and China during the Ming and Qing Period

17.15
Yang Nianqun (Beijing): "Ideas of Education" and "Scholar-Bureaucrats" in local administration of Qing Empire. A case of the implementation of an edict from Emperor Qianlong through local officials

18.00
Wang Xianming (Beijing): Western Theory and Chinese Practice: A Study of the Experiment in Constitutional Government in the last Years of the Qing Dynasty".

Joint Dinner

September 21th

Panel 2: Perceptions and Impacts in Europe
Chair: Elisabeth Kaske (Pittsburgh)

09.30
Walter Demel (München): Political Order, Administration and Jurisdiction in East Asia – European Views, 16th to 18th Centuries

10.15
Armin Kohnle (Leipzig): State and Administration as Perceived by European Protestant Missionaries in Asia during the Early Modern Period

11.00 Coffee Break

11.30
Stefan G. Jacobsen (Aarhus): Inoculating European Administration with ‘l’esprit Chinois’

12.15 Lunch Break

Panel 3: Changing Practices in South Asia and Southeast Asia
Chair: Armin Kohnle (Leipzig)

14.30
Antje Flüchter (Heidelberg): Justice or Despotism? Shifting Perceptions of Judiciary in India between Archetype or Antipode

15.15
Gauri Parasher (Heidelberg): Dynamics of Governance. Administration of French Territories in India during the 18th Century

16.00 Coffee Break

16.30
Sebastian Meurer (Heidelberg): Administrative Reform by Principles. The “Cornwallis-System” of Colonial Rule in the British Imperial Context

17.15
Ahmad Kamal Ariffin Bin Mohd Rus (Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia): The Consolidation of the British Control in the Administration of the Federated Malay States, 1896-1909

20.00 Public Lecture by Jon S.T. Quah (Singapore): Meritocracy and Corruption Control in Singapore: Enhancing the Legacy of British Administrative Reforms (everyone is welcome, especially students)
Chair: Xu Zhangrun (Beijing)

September 22th

Panel 4: Governing the Military
Chair: Wang Hui (Beijing)

08.30
Isabelle Deflers (Freiburg): The Prussian Military Constitution Revisited. Transfer of Knowledge from Prussia to France in the Aftermath of the Seven Year’s War

9.15
Barend Noordam (Heidelberg): Sino-European Encounters: Mutual Perceptions of Military Capabilities in the Seventeenth Century

10.00
Nicolas Schillinger (Heidelberg): Micro-techniques of Governance. Soldierly Bodies in China around 1900

10.45 Coffee Break

11.15
Zhang Guogang (Beijing): The Relationship between Hildebrandt and the Late Qing Government during the Construction of the “Jinan-Qingdao Railroad”

12:00
Comments and Final Discussion: Chaired by Walter Demel (München) and Susan Richter (Heidelberg)

12.30 Administration of the Qing Court: Guided Tour of the Forbidden City
organized by Wang Shuo

Conference Languages: English, Chinese, German

Conference Venue
Jinchunyuan Building, Tsinghua University
Shuangqing Road Nr. 30, Haidian District, Beijing