German China Society

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The German China Society is an association to promote relations with China in Germany.

history

DCG was founded in 1957, making it the oldest German company in China. At first it consisted primarily of scientists, politicians and diplomats who were concerned with establishing diplomatic relations with China and long-term development of German-Chinese relations. The purpose at the time was to establish diplomatic relations, but the DCG was and is politically independent. It finances its events and publications from donations and membership fees.

In the early years, the focus of their engagement was Hamburg. Today most of the DCG events take place in Cologne and Karlsruhe. Regardless of this, the company is in principle involved nationwide.

In 2017 the company celebrated its 60th anniversary.

aims

The aim of the company is to promote understanding and friendship between Germans and Chinese. To this end, the DCG endeavors to provide accurate and comprehensive information about Chinese culture, politics and economy. Prejudices, clichés and misunderstandings should be broken down and replaced with appropriate knowledge and assessments. She uses lectures, symposia and publications as a means of doing this, as well as arranging institutional connections between schools or cities, for example, and promoting personal contacts.

Members and Board of Directors

Among the members are ambassadors like Hannspeter Hellbeck and Wolfgang Runge as well as professors interested in China. At times, Hans-Dietrich Genscher was a member of the DCG.

The president and board members carry out their work on a voluntary basis. The DCG has been headed by Martin Woesler (Witten) since 2018 . Vice-president is the China expert Wu Xudong (Karlsruhe). Other board members are Alexander Bell (Cologne), Ulrich Schmitz (Karlsruhe) and Thomas Weyrauch (Gießen). Gregor Paul (Karlsruhe) is the honorary president .

exchange

The DCG supports efforts to consolidate and expand the scientific, political, diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries. The company also promotes school partnerships and student exchanges as well as tourism between the countries. In China, she is particularly committed to establishing exchange programs for schoolchildren and students.

Events

In the East Asian Museum in Cologne, the DCG holds scientific lectures almost every month on Thursdays. Fireside chats and occasional symposia take place in Karlsruhe.

Together with the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, she held two international conferences in Berlin in 2014 and 2015 on the subject of “China's Way”.

Publications

The DCG publishes the newsletter of the German China Society once a year. It is sent to 300 to 400 addressees free of charge: University institutes, large libraries, sinologists and people interested in “China and Chinese” in general. In addition, the Board of Directors endeavors to distribute the DCG book publications to as many institutions and people as possible free of charge. There is also an online journal.

Political Initiatives

In 2008, the DCG got involved with an open letter signed by numerous German sinology professors. a. to the German Bundestag for Deutsche Welle's independent reporting on China.

Publication series "Deutsche Chinareihe"

  • Gregor Paul, Martin Woesler (Ed.): Between Mao and Confucius? The PR China as a reflex of tradition and innovation (= German Chinese series, vol. 7). MultiLingua, Bochum 2000, ISBN 3-932329-13-9 .

precursor

The first German association with reference to China was the German-Chinese Association (Berlin), which was founded on March 16, 1914 and was heavily supported by companies involved in the Chinese business . Its president was the diplomat Freiherr Mumm von Schwarzenstein . In 1919 it merged with the German-Asian Society to form the Association for the Far East .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Goals , accessed March 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ International Conference for China Studies at the University of Witten / Herdecke , accessed on March 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ Board of Directors , accessed on March 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ DCG events and events , accessed on March 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ Overview of the editions published so far , accessed on March 26, 2018.
  6. ↑ Open letter