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 ...
The Social Credit System’s Greatest Leap Goes Unnoticed
by Marianne von Blomberg While China-journalists were all preoccupied with the Constitutional amendment, a major change occurred in the realm of the social credit system – which potentially might turn the existing order of politics and (constitutional) l ...
Xi Jinping at the apex of power?
by Straton Papagianneas On 25/02 Xinhua published proposed changes to the State Constitution ahead of the upcoming National People’s Congress (NPC) early March. The proposal that attracted the most attention in Western media and among netizens was the on ...
Mapping China Journal No. 1
Mapping China Journal Number 1 / 2017 Mapping China’s International Relations: Processes of Integration and Disintegration in the 21st Century Read the full Mapping China Journal Number 1 here. Individual Chapters: Read the Editors' Note and Introdu ...
Top Features on China in 2017
by Julia Tatrai This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like Buzzfeed didn’t exactly ring a bell as a China specialized news page, but this chilling report by Megha Rajagopalan changed that (to a degree). After interviewing about two dozen ...
The emergence of the AIIB in the context of current multilateral development cooperation
by Thomas Otto After becoming an important global creditor of foreign direct investment, China now also takes a leading role in multilateral development cooperation by establishing a new multilateral development bank (MDB), the Asian Infrastructure Inves ...
Resource Special: The 19th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China
by Tatjana Romig Today’s kick-off of the CPC’s 19th party congress is a milestone for the future direction of Chinese politics. Thus, China watchers around the world closely track potential developments and outcomes. To help you fill in any knowledge gap ...
Mapping China Teamblog #5
In the middle of September, we met for a week in Berlin to discuss Mapping China’s end of year projects, plan ahead, eat a lot of Chinese food and drink some bubble tea. Journal 2017 Bad news first: Delays in handing in journal essays and papers a ...
Racism as Dissent? – Harmonious Society, Internet Sovereignty, and Discussing Ethnic Minority in State-Regulated Cyberspace
by Lin Zihao Abstract In this essay, the author wants to explore how discussions of ethnic minority are embedded in a wider public discursive field in Chinese domestic digital sphere in contrast to the global cyberspace. Before carving out the netizen m ...
China and Africa Resources Part 2: Books
by Julia Tatrai Top Picks are marked with * Africans in China Bodomo, Adams (ed.) (2016) Africans in China: Guangdong and Beyond, New York: Diasporic Africa Press Lan, Shanshan (2017) Mapping the New African Diaspora in China: Race and the C ...