At one Glance: Beginn: Wed, 2026, January 7th, 6pm Ort: CATS Auditorium (010.01.05) Vossstr. 2, 69115 Heidelberg (Karte) Speaker: Barbara Mittler, Yi-Ching CHENG, Xiaojie CHANG Film: Chairman Buddha (2016), 71mins.   Chairman Buddha is a documentary directed by Tang Louyi. It follows those who believe that Mao Zedong has been reincarnated as a Buddha. Lifeworlds on […]

Lifeworlds on two sides of the Taiwan Straits—Cinematic narratives  In a cooperation between the Taiwan Studies Program, the Worldmaking Project and the Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), we are offering a series of films this semester from Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China, depicting complex and conflicted sinophone realities and illustrating different […]

At one Glance: Beginn: Wed, 2026, January 14th, 6pm Ort: CATS Auditorium (010.01.05) Vossstr. 2, 69115 Heidelberg (Karte) Speaker: Barbara Mittler, Yi-Ching CHENG, Xiaojie CHANG Film: 现成品 (ReadyMade, 2009) , 78 mins.   Mao Zedong died in 1976, but his impersonators are alive and well. This film documents the lives of two people who resemble Mao […]