Understanding China's Modernity - European Reflections
China's rapid modernisation has turned the country into a leading economic and technological power with global appeal. It was not only the Covid 19 pandemic that made it clear that China's modernity poses a challenge from a European perspective, raising normative, economic and political questions. The dialogue series "Understanding China's Modernity - European Reflections" approaches these questions from many perspectives and through the lenses of different disciplines. Once a month, renowned experts address different aspects of today's Chinese politics, economy and society, critically questioning them and at the same time reflecting on their own, European modernity.
This dialogue series is organised within the framework of the research group "Infrastructures of Chinese Modernity and their Constitutive Global Effects", which is funded by the NRW Return Programme of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Format: Online. Moderated discussion and conversation with audience.
Time: Usually once a month, Thursdays, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Partner/performers: CASSIS and Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Event dates
22.04.2021 China's handling of the Corona pandemic: lessons for Europe?
20.05.2021 Taiwan and the future of democracy in Asia
24.06.2021 China's Renaissance in the Context of Global History
15.07.2021 Civil society and human rights in the digital dictatorship
16.09.2021 Inevitable or misguided? Debates about China's tradition and modernity in foreign and self-images
28.10.2021 A place in the sun? Fleet modernization in the context of Chinese geopolitics
18.11.2021 China as a development counter-model: historical and global perspectives
09.12.2021 Models of capitalism and regulatory policy in China
20.01.2022 Chinese Globalization and Modern Metropolises
24.02.2022 Chinese economic footprint in Europe and the future of EU-China relations
24.03.2022 Science and Modernization in China
19.05.2022 Party state and ideology: how to decipher China's modern ruling practices?
23.06.2022 Geopolitics and connectivity: China's strategic relations with the North Atlantic region
14.10.2022 Environment, climate and China's unfinished modernity
17.11.2022 Modernization and Minorities in China
19.01.2023 Educated, patriotic, postmodern? How China's young generation ticks
02.02.2023 How China-competent are we? On the state of the interplay between German China research and policy