EACS-2016. Book of Abstracts

Section 13 21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies 151 Popova Irina (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS), Takata Tokio (Kyoto University) Vocabularies of Kyakhta-Maimaicheng Pidgin Key words: Russian-Chinese cultural relations, Kyakhta, language contact This presentation focuses on the study of handwritten vocabularies of the Kyakhta-Maimaicheng Pidgin language from the Russian collections. This unique material is of immense importance for the study of the history of human and cultural relations between Russia and China. It is an important new source, which has been unknown and neglected by scholars. The Kyakhta-Maimaicheng Chinese Pidgin Russian was used by Russian and Chinese traders for communication on the border between the Russian and Qing Empires in the 18th to the early 20th centuries. It was indeed a result of their close interethnic relations. The vocabularies reflected the particularities of both Russian and Chinese languages of that time (including the dialects of Siberia and Shanxi province). They were compiled by the Chinese border merchants from Shanxi, who transcribed the Russian words with Chinese characters. The intact Kyakhta-Maimaicheng Pidgin vocabu- laries are a unique cultural phenomenon as of themselves, while their analysis can have an impact on the study of all contact languages, both living and dead. Rudolph Henrike (University of Hamburg) Republican Education Debates Revisited: The Depiction and Perception of German Vocational Education in Chinese Publications, 1900s–1930s Key words: Republican China, education, history of concepts, comparative education history, repub- lican publications At the turn of the twentieth century in their struggle to establish a modern education system Chinese reformers were often fighting a loosing battle against conservative forces and financial restraints. Even though the vivid debates on pedagogy and education models of the Republican Period did not produce the results the reformers had hoped for, they had a long-lasting influence on education policies up until today. Existing research mostly conjures either a simplistic narrative of failed education reforms in Republican China or focuses on the work and writings of individual educators. In my paper however, I take a different approach and shed light on these debates from the perspective of the actors involved by a detailed analysis of contemporary Republican publications. All articles and books on the German vocational education model that were published in China between the 1900s and the late 1930s are ana- lyzed in this paper and even though they constitute only a small part of a much larger debate on foreign education, they exemplify how foreign education thought reached China and how it was perceived and discussed among Chinese educators. These sources contain information on international alliances and a changing culture of knowledge and show how socio-political demands shifted. Educational concepts that emerged in Europe in an evolutionary process since the Enlightenment reached China simultane- ously while the Western countries themselves still struggled to enforce compulsory education and to modernize the existing education systems. In these publications the pedagogy of the Enlightenment is therefore perceived alongside the latest trends in progressive education theory. As the sources paint such a multifaceted picture of the Republican Chinese education debates, the findings not only contribute to the history of education, but they also touch upon larger fields of research such as the transfer of knowl- edge and the history of concepts. Rysakova Polina (Saint Petersburg State University) Perceptions of the Outer World Under the Patriotic Education Campaign in China Key words: China, patriotic education campaign, images of the West China’s peaceful rise is the main slogan that the Chinese government presents on the international stage, proclaiming that China’s economic and political prominence does not pose a threat to peace and stability, but brings mutual benefits and development. So China wants to see herself as a bringer of peace — a country