Urbanization and the Establishment of Communities (Shequ) in China: Implications for Everyday Life Friday, November 23, 2012 12:30 – 13:30, Seminar Room 0.610, KWZ Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 Prof. Dr. Flemming Christiansen Chair of Political Sociology of China University of Duisburg-Essen

China and the United States: Four Mutual Images in Public Discourse Friday, November 23, 2012 15:00 -16:00, Seminar Room 0.609, KWZ Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 Dong Wang PhD, Professor of Contemporary Chinese History University of Turku

Lecture Series: Culture Governance and Local Development in China: The Case of Nanjing Wednesday, January 23, 2013 18:00 – 20:00, Seminar Room 0.603, KWZ Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 Prof. Leng Tse-Kang National Chengchi University, Academia Sinica The purpose of this talk is to delve into the model of urban governance on the cultural industry in China. The …

Lecture Series: Environmental pollution in China. New media and public participation: The case of air pollution Wednesday, April 24, 2013 18:00 – 19:30, Seminar Room 0.609, KWZ Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 Prof. Li Ji School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University The air pollution problem in China has been taken as the most serious environmental challenge facing …

VORTRAG: How Can Latecomer Countries Catch-Up? (Vortragssprache: Deutsch) A Case Study of China‘s High-Speed Rail Dienstag, 30. April, 2013 14 Uhr c.t., KWZ 2.601 Prof. Dr. Junhua Zhang Jiaotong University, Shanghai Dr. Junhua Zhang currently is a Professor of Political Science at the School of International and Public Affairs of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University …

Lecture Series: Comparative Terror in China and Taiwan Peformances and Realities in Regime Consolidation: The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries and the White Terror in Su’nan and Taiwan, 1950-1954 Monday, May 13, 2013, 6 pm, KWZ, Room 0.606 Julia C. Strauss SOAS, University of London Lecture Abstract: Much of the state building literature that comes from …

Lecture Series: Medicincal Delicatessen Chinese medicine practitioners and substances in contemporary China Friday, June 7, 2013, 3 pm, KWZ, Room 0.609 Dr. Lena Springer EASTmedicine research centre, University of Westminster, London Lecture Abstract: This talk presents findings of a multi-sited ethnography based on recent fieldwork in Sichuan province, China: in a remote region and in …