Konferenz am 05. 11. 2007
Taiwan – a Bridge between the East and South China Seas
Department for Asian Studies, Sinology,
Munich University
Senatssaal, Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
5 November 2007
Programme
8.30 Welcome
8.45 Prof. Dr. Leonard BLUSSÉ (Leiden University)
The Taiwanese Laboratory, Four centuries of Social Engineering (keynote speech)
9.30 Prof. Dr. Roderich PTAK (Munich University)
Between two «Mediterraneans»: Taiwan as Barrier and Bridge
10.00 PD Dr. Ralph KAUZ (Austrian Academy of Social Sciences)
Merchants from West Asia on Taiwan?
10.30 Coffee break
Chair: Prof. Dr. Angela SCHOTTENHAMMER
11.00 Prof. Dr. CHANG Pin-tsun (Academia Sinica)
The Emergence of Taiwan as a Trading Rendezvous in the Sixteenth Century
11.30 Prof. Dr. CHEN Kuo-tung (Academia Sinica)
Taiwan and East Asian Shipwrecks in the 17th-19th Centuries
12.00 Dr. James CHIN (The University of Hong Kong)
The Hokkien Commercial Sojourners in Taiwan during the 17th Century
12.30 Lunch
Chair: Prof. Dr. Leonard BLUSSÉ
14.00 Dr. Mathieu TORCK (Gent University)
Travelling the Strait: the physical experience
14.30 Dr. Christian SOFFEL (Academia Sinica, Munich University)
Taiwan in Early Qing Chinese Poetry
15.00 Prof. Dr. Rui M. LOUREIRO (Câmara Municipal de Lagos)
Formosa, but unattractive: Portuguese impressions of Taiwan (16th and 17th centuries)
15.30 Coffee break
Chair: Prof. Dr. CHANG Pin-tsun
16.00 Dr. Manel Ollé Rodriguez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Castilians in north Taiwan: interactions in a new frontier
16.30 Prof. Dr. Murray A RUBINSTEIN
17th Century Dutch-Reformed Taiwan as ‘Ding-an-Sich’, Paradigm for the 19th Century Missionaries, and 21st Century Media Presentation
17.00 Prof. Dr. Angela SCHOTTENHAMMER (Munich University)
Concluding remarks and Final discussion
19.00 Dinner hosted by Chu Jian-Song (General Director of the Taipei Representative Office, Munich)
This conference is sponsored by the VW Foundation and supported by the Taipeh Representative Office, Munich
