杜塞尔多夫孔子学院德方院长/Director of Confucius Institute in Duesseldorf：Dr. Cord Eberspaecher
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主讲人简介/C.V. of Speaker
-- Cord Eberspaecher has studied History, Sinology and Political Sciences in Oldenburg, Hamburg, Leiden and Beijing.
-- He received his Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on “The German Yangtze Patrol. An Example of German Gunboat Diplomacy in the Age of Imperialism 1900-1914” in 2003.
-- He worked 2005-2008 in a project on Sino-German Relations 1842-1911 at the Secret Prussian State Archive (Berlin) in cooperation with the First Historical Archives in Beijing.
-- 2008-2009，he joined a project on “Colonialism in Comparative Perspective. Tianjin under Nine Flags” at the University of Bristol.
-- In January 2010 he took over his present position at the Confucius Institute in Duesseldorf.
-- Dr. Eberspaecher is Lecturer at the Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf and Visiting Scholar at the University of Bristol.
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讲座内容简介/Brief introduction of the lecture
Sino-German Relations in the late 19th and early 20th century are normally only regarded under two aspects: The Occupation of Jiaozhou Bay and the German intervention in the course of the Boxer Uprising. But relations between both countries in the late Qing era were much more complex. Although Germany had entered the semi-colonial treaty system with the Treaty of Tianjin in 1861 and tried to establish the elements of the “toolbox” of the Western Powers in China, we also find many aspects of partnership, for example the naval cooperation around the Beiyang Fleet and the fortifications of the Northern Chinese Coasts.
In this paper, Eberspaecher will give a general idea of the characteristics of Sino-German relations in the late Qing era and shed light on several hitherto rarely known episodes. Going beyond the older approaches of imperialism and modernism from the Western perspective, which mainly regarded China as object, he will also take Chinese views, considerations and strategies into account.
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