Every good garden needs fertilising: Scientific cooperation with China must not slacken despite all the problems – By Nadine Godehardt and Björn Alpermann
Seldom have German-Chinese relations in their 50-year history been as difficult as they are today. Although the People’s Republic of China remains Germany’s most important trading partner in 2021, the positions of the two sides on geopolitical issues could hardly be further apart. The opposing
An Argument Against Moral Crusading – By Björn Alpermann and Gunter Schubert
Preface German sinologists Björn Alpermann and Gunter Schubert wanted to stimulate a factual discussion on the increasingly polarized, normative German China research. For this reason, both have published an excellent article in the German newspaper FAZ a few days ago. As a colleague of
Reflections on the Winter Olympics in Beijing 2022 – Essay by Michael Malzer
As the 14th Winter Olympic Games draw to a close in Beijing, eagerly followed by some, but largely unnoticed, ignored or even boycotted by others, I feel the need to reflect on these two weeks of televised spectacle. To be sure, there seems to be
A German Firewall? – Two Letters to the Editor of FAZ
The following two letters from Professor Karl-Heinz Pohl to the editor of FAZ were both not printed. Mediastudies.asia publishes them here in order to draw attention to the highly one-sided, China-critical reporting in the German media. However, it is worth pointing out Sebastian Conrad’s excellent
Democracy Politics in the Wake of the Paradoxes of the Democratic – Essay by Peter Fuchs
‘Democracy politics’ refers to measures and programmes whose aim is to strengthen democracy in its Western understanding. Various organisations and institutions in the West pursue democracy politics, in Germany for example the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Political scientist Heinz Kleger has defined democracy politics as politics
Protected: “I want to open all the doors” – Interview with Wing Shya by Aurora
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“Dear Mr. Heidingsfelder” – “Dear Mr. Alpermann”: A Correspondence on the SCMP Op-Ed
Dear Mr. Heidingsfelder, With great interest, I read your commentary in the South China Morning Post. Even though I am not one of those who are singing from the same song-sheet that claims Confucius Institutes promote espionage or otherwise endanger our freedom of science, some
China’s Rural-Urban Transformation: Special Issue of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
German sinologist Björn Alpermann has guest-edited a new special issue of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs that focuses on “China’s Rural-Urban Transformation: New Forms of Inclusion and Exclusion”. As Alpermann writes in the abstract of his editorial: “China’s urbanisation drive has been unprecedented in