The word “just” in the title of the latest book by Daniel Bell and Wang Pei, “Just Hierarchy,” plays with dual meanings, encompassing both “fair” and “merely.” The second sense highlights a deeper aspect of hierarchies: they do more than structure power; they shape personal
YES – Young Experts Symposium is an annual conference with changing themes, international participants, and a wide-ranging international audience. The three pillars of YES are: Intergenerationality: we develop a polylogue between young(er) and old(er) experts, who are still curious Interdisciplinarity: we provide opportunities for mutual
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
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
‘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
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
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
Futures of Media – Media Power 21-22 January 2022 Journalism Program – Xiamen University Malaysia The conference will be held on Zoom The relationship between politics and the media has always been one of the central themes of media theory. From the beginnings, media scholars exerted
The Moral Roots of Quarantine: The East and the West 16–17 December 2021, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities – University of Macau “The Moral Roots of Quarantine: The East and the West” mainly aims at enriching the scholarly debate about comparative East–West perspectives on the responses to
AK: Hi, Markus. Hello, Arqam, hello, Aymen. AK: Here we are again, more than 90 days later. Yes, here we are. I am happy to see that you are both still alive and well. AK: Alive, yes. Well, not so much. AA: Yeah, these lockdowns