“Silk Road Rejuvenated”

Registration: confucius@uni.lu

“Interpreting China” from an outside perspective necessitates knowledge of China´s history, especially its cultural history, and its historical experiences with the outside world. The concept of the “New Silk Road” combined economic, political, cultural aspects on a national and international level. It is up to discussion whether there is an elaborated strategic masterplan behind, or if it is more a “try and error” experiment. Or a combination of both.

Prof. Dr. Richard Trappl Sinologist, Austrian Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna. From 2008 to 2014 he was the participant of the “EUNIC (European National Institutes of Culture) - China Cultural Dialogue”. Since 2011 he has become Honorary Professor at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law, Beijing. In recent years he has been invited to deliver numerous lectures in China, Europe and the Americas.