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Zhiyi Yang. “The Memory of an Assassin and Problems of Legitimacy in the Wang Jingwei Regime (1940–1945)," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 80.1 (2020): 37–83.

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Fig. Wang Jingwei in suit and tie, writing “Advance, toward the goal of China's renaissance and East Asia's renaissance!", illustration by Itō Kikuzō, 1941

Source: Yamanaka Minetarō, Shin Chūgoku no dai shidōsha, p. 323. Image courtesy of Harvard Yenching Library of the Harvard College Library, Harvard University

At the beginning of the coming semester the IZO launches a new project. In connexion with the chair “Knowledge and Society“ endowed by Deutsche Bank, we offer in the summer semester an online series of lectures on “China on the way to becoming the leading economic power: Sinological and economic perspectives".

In this lecture series funded by the Deutsche Bank Foundation, renowned academics from several fields of expertise will address a number of topics related to China's rise to economic power. The lectures are interlinked by their common topic, but they can also be appreciated as freestanding talks.

Anyone who wishes to follow these thought-provoking talks and discussions about China's development is most welcome, whether they are students, academics or members of the general public.

Aging societies in industrialised nations need skilled workers - specialists in the IT sector, in innovative start-ups, or from top universities. This applies to Germany as well as to the East Asian countries of South Korea, Singapore, China, and especially Japan. Because of their quality of life and lucrative renumeration, these countries are attractive for qualified migrants. But the recipe for success in the competition for the best brains is far from clear: What attracts well-trained specialists to Japan, South Korea, China, or Singapore? What facilitates, and what hinders the integration of skilled foreign workers? What social networks do skilled migrant workers develop? What role does their own initiative for further qualification, their ethnicity and nationality, their gender and multilingualism play? And what causes skilled workers to return to their home countries after years?

More information here.

The final volume of the externally funded project  Africa's Asian Options (AFRASO) has been published by Brill Academic Publishers.

Ruth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, and Frank Schulze-Engler (Hg.): Afrasian Transformations: Transregional Perspectives on Development Cooperation, Social Mobility, and Cultural Change, Brill, 2020.

   
African-Asian interactions contribute to the emergence of a decentred, multi-polar world in which different actors need to redefine themselves and their relations to each other. Afrasian Transformations explores these changes to map out several arenas where these  transformations have already produced startling results: development politics, South-South cooperation, cultural memory, mobile lifeworlds  and transcultural connectivity. The contributions in this volume neither celebrate these shifting dynamics as felicitous proof of a new age of South-South solidarity, nor do they debunk them as yet another instance of burgeoning geopolitical hegemony. Instead, they seek to come to terms with the ambivalences, contradictions and potential  benefits entailed in these transformations – that are also altering our understanding of (trans)area in an increasingly globalized world.

Contributors include: Seifudein Adem, Nafeesah Allen, Jan Beek, Tom De Bruyn, Casper Hendrik Claassen, Astrid Erll, Hanna Getachew Amare, John Njenga Karugia, Guive Khan-Mohammad, Vinay Lal, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Jamie Monson, Diderot Nguepjouo, Satwinder S. Rehal, Ute Röschenthaler, Alexandra Samokhvalova, Darryl C. Thomas, and Sophia Thubauville.


For more details see https://brill.com/view/title/56548