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Big data administration and the Local State in China

Danqi Guo, Betreuerin: Prof. Dr. Genia Kostka

The Big Data revolution has advanced beyond industry and business into public administration and policy over the past years in China. As a response to this latest development, a wave of organizational reform has been underway across the country’s local government administrations. With the ...

Conceptualization of Death, Disease and Body in Chinese Euphemisms

Yaroslav Akimov, Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Andreas Guder

Dissertation: Yaroslav Akimov (2022): " Conceptualisations of Death, Illness, and the Body in Chinese Euphemisms: A Survey of Sensitive Vocabulary in Modern Chinese Lexicography " (Betreuer: Prof. Andreas Guder / Prof. Annette Gerstenberg) This project on Chinese euphemisms is aimed to ...

Overcome the Dependence: Institutions and Interests in China’s Public Hospital Reform

Mei Chen, Betreuerin: Prof. Dr. Genia Kostka

In the 2010s, China launched a reform to reduce public hospitals’ strong dependency on drug revenues as a source of financial compensation. Within the framework of this “Separation” reform, a series of measures, including the “zero-markup” policy, were taken to bring down the share of ...

Citizen Participation in China’s Digital Governance Era

Hao Zhang, Betreuerin: Prof. Dr. Genia Kostka

The doctoral project focuses on citizen engagement on integrated digital platforms at municipal level. It identifies the potential changes brought by the digital tools on such platforms on both citizens' stance and governments' motivations. The findings will be generated during fieldwork and ...

Environmental street protest in China: Resources, framing process, and political opportunity of contentious collective action in an authoritarian country

Xinyi Lin, Betreuerin: Prof. Dr. Genia Kostka

China has experienced a wave of large environmental protests against anticipated and actual environmental risks since the middle of the 2000s. The protestors have adopted various forms of protest to tackle environmental problems including petition, boycotts, occupations, and street protests. In ...

China’s role in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s counterterrorism efforts

Eva Seiwert, Betreuerin: Prof. Dr. Elena Meyer-Clement

In recent years the issue of terrorism has become increasingly conspicuous in domestic and international politics. Due to the transnational nature of the threat, regional institutions have become an important pillar of states’ political strategies to counter terrorism. In fact, a major aim of ...

Images of Tibet in Chinese Popular Culture (Arbeitstitel)

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn

Tibet appears in Chinese popular culture in numerous shapes: as the location of events in novels and movies, as the site of news or as a travel destination, as a culture informing the happenings of fictional stories and documentaries. Whether on the screen, in print, or on posters, the province ...

Chinas blühende Welten – Das Konzept des Shengshi Zhongguo (盛世中国) im Spannungsfeld zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft ab 1949 (Arbeitstitel)