Recap: The First Mapping China Summer School
From 10 September to 14 September, we were holding the first Mapping China Summer School on the topic of “Research Design and Research Methodology” in Berlin. For one week, eight participants ranging from Master to PhD level with different academic backgr ...
Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China by Leta Hong Fincher
by Straton Papagianneas In this book, Dr. Leta Hong Fincher (Leftover Women) documents the conflict between the Chinese government’s unprecedented crackdown on young feminist activists and the emergence of a broader feminist awakening that is beginning t ...
Call for Applications: Mapping China Summer School 2018
Call for Applications Mapping China Summer School 2018: Research Design and Research Methodology 10th to 14th September 2018 in Berlin Background: Formulated in positive terms, area studies are marked by methodological pluralism. Formulated in ...
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
Study Group Review of Daniel A. Bell The first pick of our newly started Study Group was Daniel A. Bell’s “The China Model”. The Reading Group aka the China nerd book club, aims to read a book on or out of China – both fiction and academic – every six we ...
Mapping China Team Blog #6
A lot has happened since we last updated you guys! We met in Berlin again in April, discussed new projects, celebrated a birthday, had strategic meetings with mastermind Whiskey (see the pictures) and might or might not have had too much Chinese food agai ...
Resources for Mapping China’s Participation and Contribution in Asian Regional Cooperation
Part II Mapping Academic Scholarship on Regionalism by Aya Adachi For studying China’s behavioural pattern in regionalism it is useful to draw lessons from general work on comparative regionalism as well as scholarship on Asian specific regionalism. It ...
The geopolitics of China in Latin America in Donald Trump’s era
by Miquel Vila In the dawn of Donald Trump’s administration’s protectionist turn, many commentators have turned their eyes to China as the new champion of globalization. One scenario in which China could surpass the US in commercial terms could take plac ...
Moving beyond power and tightened control
by Straton Papagianneas Two months after the Two Sessions in March, it might be interesting to revisit two key developments: the first one being the massive government restructuring and the second being the constitutional status given to the National Sup ...
Resources for Mapping China’s Participation and Contribution in Asian Regional Cooperation
by Aya Adachi Part I Resources for Empirical Data The People’s Republic of China shares borders with 14 states (excluding Hongkong and Macau). As China is one of the largest country in the world and second largest in Asia, its regional association is ...
Call for Papers 2018
China’s Domestic Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping – an Assessment of the First Five Years Xi Jinping is supposedly the strongest Chinese President since Mao Zedong; a charismatic leader whose hype is underpinned by his far-reaching institutional reforms ...