Monographs and Edited Volumes
2018: Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation, and Institutionalisation, co-edited with I. Amelung, M. Bälz, M. Schumann, and C. Storz, London & New York: Routledge.
2005: Verbandliche Interessenvermittlung in der VR China. Der Bund für Industrie und Handel zwischen staatlichem Kontrollanspruch und privatwirtschaftlicher Selbstbehautung, Hamburg: Institute of Asian Affairs, 319 S. (with Thomas Reichenbach)
2002: China's Accession to the World Trade Organization. European and Chinese Perspectives, Richmond: RoutledgeCurzon (Co-editor, with Robert Ash)
2001: Inflation als Herausforderung der Legitimation politischer Herrschaft in der VR China. Wirtschaftspolitische Strategien in den Jahren 1987-89. Hamburg: Institute of Asian Affairs (Publication of dissertation, written at Heidelberg University)
Articles in Refereed Journals
2021: “China's Overseas NGO Law and the Future of International Civil Society", Journal of Contemporary Asia, Online Publication: 08 Sep 2021, DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2021.1955292 (mit Bertram Lang)
2020: "Be Water, My Friend: Hong Kong's 2019 Anti-Extradition Protests", International Journal of Sociology, Published Online: 04 Aug 2020 For a free copy, please visit: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/H2CD9VV2YCZH3UGXBER9/full?target=10.1080/00207659.2020.1802556
2018: “Whose New Normal? Framing the Economic Slowdown under Xi Jinping", Journal of Chinese Political Science, Published online first: 26. February; DOI 10.1007/s11366-018-9539-6.
2016: „Demokratie als translinguale Praxis: Chinesische Aneignungen "deliberativer Demokratie"", in: Sophia Schubert / Alexander Weiß (eds.), Special Issue 51, Politische Vierteljahreschrift (PVS): "Demokratie" jenseits des Westens: Theorien, Diskurse, Einstellungen, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 188-205; http://www.nomos-shop.de/24413
2016: (with Sighard Neckel): „Negative Classifications and the Symbolic Order of Social Inequality: Evidence from East Asia"; in: Critical Asian Studies, 2016, Vol. 48, No. 3, 400–421; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14672715.2016.1199372
2016: (with Christina Maags): „Replicating Elite-Dominance in Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding: The Role of Local Government - Scholar Networks in China"; in: International Journal of Cultural Property, 23: 71-97. doi:10.1017/S0940739116000035; http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10215313&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0940739116000035
2013: „Ideology after the end of ideology. China and the quest for autocratic legitimation"; in: Democratization, 20:1, 61-81; http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Ynrk6QcBANKDBCp3MXWz/full
2011: „International Dimensions of Legitimacy: Reflections on Western Theories and the Chinese Experience"; in: Journal of Chinese Political Science 16:2/3 (Spring/Summer), 161-181
2010: „Reclaiming Legitimacy in China"; in: Politics & Policy, 38:3 (September), Special Issue: „The Search for Legitimacy: Managing the Political Consequences of Asian Development", Guest Editors: Haig Patapan, John Kane and Loy Hui Chieh, 395-422 (with Bruce Gilley)
2009: „Remaking the CCP's Ideology: Determinants, Progress and Limits under Hu Jintao"; in: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, No.3, (September), Guest Editors: Francois Godement and Mathieu Duchatel, 35-61
2009: „The Debate on Party Legitimacy in China: a mixed quantitative/qualitative analysis"; in: Journal of Contemporary China, 18:59 (March), 339-358 (with Bruce Gilley)
2004: „The Emergence of the Campaign to Open Up the West: Ideological formation, central decision-making, and the role of the provinces"; in: China Quarterly, Special Issue „China's Campaign to ‚Open Up the West': National, Provincial and Local Perspectives“, No. 178 (June), 335-357
2002: „The Party and Private Entrepreneurs in the PRC“; in: Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 16 (November), 30-56
Further Articles in Journals and Edited Volumes
(forthcoming)“Canonising Xi Jinping Thought – Ideological engineering and its real-world relevance", Chapter contribution, Hofman, Bert, and Pieke, Frank (eds.) The CPC and the New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the next decade, East Asian Institute, Singapore.
(forthcoming)“Official Visions of Democracy in Xi Jinping's China", in: Anja Mihr and Brigitte Weiffen (eds.), China's Belt and Road Initiative: Curse or Blessing for democracy in Eurasia?, forthcoming in: Security and Democracy in Eurasia. Studies on Transformation and Development in the OSCE Region, published by the OSCE Academy, Bishkek.
2022: „Inside 'Chinese Democracy': The official career of a contested concept under Xi Jinping“, Journal of Politics and Law; 15:2; Online Publication: 4 March 2022, DOI: 10.5539/jpl.v15n2p21.
2021: „Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit: Die KP Chinas probt ihren globalen Führungsanspruch“. GIGA Focus | Asien | Nummer 4 | Juli 2021, https://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publikationen/25196596-hundert-jahre-einsamkeit-kp-chinas-probt-ihren-globalen-f%C3%BChrungsanspruch/.
2021: „Chinesische Perspektiven. Gespräch mit der Politologin Heike Holbig über die erfolgreiche chinesische Pandemiepolitik“, Forschung Frankfurt, 5-9.
2020/21: „Covid-19 and the Moving Target of a Moderately Prosperous Society“, in: Bowie, Julia et al. (ed.): Party Watch Annual Report 2020: COVID-19 and Chinese Communist Party Resilience, 37-47. https://www.ccpwatch.org/single-post/party-watch-annual-report-2020-covid-19-and-chinese-communist-party-resilience
2020: “Xi Jinping and the Self-fulfilling Prophecy of 'Two-Faced Individuals'", China Trends (ed. by Institut Montaigne), No 7, 12-17. https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/publications/china-trends-7-shrinking-margins-debate#
2020: "Vom Krisenherd zum Krisenheld: Chinas Umgang mit COVID-19", GIGA Focus ASIEN, No. 4 (July). Open Access: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publication/vom-krisenherd-zum-krisenheld-chinas-umgang-mit-covid-19
2018: "China after Reform: The Ideological, Constitutional, and Organisational Makings of a New Era", in: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 47, 3, 187–207; https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/1185/1192
2018: (with I. Amelung, M. Bälz, E. Hörhager, M. Schumann, and C. Storz): “Introduction" (S.1-19), in: Amelung et al. (eds.), Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation, and Institutionalisation, Routledge.
2018: (with M. Bälz): “Shifting Relations between State and Social Actors: Ambiguous Strategies of Protecting the Weak in Japan and China" (S.75-111), in: Amelung et al. (eds.), Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation, and Institutionalisation, Routledge.
2018: (with C. Storz): “Theories of Institutional Change. An Application ot the Dynamics of “Protecting the Weak'" (S.111-137), in: Amelung et al. (eds.), Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation, and Institutionalisation, Routledge.
2018: (with I. Amelung, M. Bälz, M. Schumann, and C. Storz): “Weak versus Strong: Ambiguities of Protection" (S.257-271), in: Amelung et al. (eds.), Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation, and Institutionalisation, Routledge.
2018: “Making China Great Again: Xi Jinping Bids Farewell to the Reform Era", GIGA Focus Asia, Number 02 (April), www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publication/making-china-great-again-xi-jinping-bids-farewell-to-the-reform-era
2017: "The 19th party congress: Its place in history", in: Stanzel, Angela (ed.), "China's 'New Era' with Xi Jinping Characteristics'", China Analysis, December, pp. 3-4.
2017 (with Sebastian Biba): "China in the G20: A Narrow Corridor for Sino–European Cooperation" in: GIGA Focus, Asia, Number 02, May 2017, ISSN 1862-359X; https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publication/china-in-the-G20
2017: „Reflecting the Moving Target of Asia", in: Mielke, Katja, and Hornidge, Anna-Katharine (Eds.), Area Studies at the Crossroads. Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 309-326; http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781349950119
2016: (with Iwo Amelung) „INTRODUCTION - Protecting the Weak: Welfare during East Asia's Long Twentieth Century"; in: Critical Asian Studies, 2016, Vol. 48, No. 3, 309–314; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14672715.2016.1200307
2016: (with Günter Schucher) „„He who says C must say D" — China's Attempt to Become the "World's Largest Democracy"", in: GIGA Focus Asien, Number 02, Juni 2016, ISSN1862-359X; https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publication/chinas-attempt-to-become-the-worlds-largest-democracy
2016: (mit Jonas Schachtschneider) „Chinas neue 'Führungsgruppen zur umfassenden Vertiefung der Reform': Chancen und Risiken politischer Steuerung unter Xi Jinping"; in ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, No. 139 (April): 75-90
2015: „Bürgerrechte und Zivilgesellschaft in China: Diskursive Rechtfertigungsstrategien im Schatten parteistaatlicher Hegemonie" (with Carolin Kautz); in: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, No. 137 (October 2015), 77–89; http://asien.asienforschung.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/11/07_137_Kautz-Holbig_Abstract.pdf
2015: „The Plasticity of Regions: A Social Sciences–Cultural Studies Dialogue on Asia-Related Area Studies"; in: GIGA (German Institute of Global and Area Studies) Working Papers, No. 267, March 2015;
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/publications/wp267_holbig.pdf
2015: „Yishixingtai de shiyingxing biange yu huiying kunjing: Shiba da hou Zhongguo gongchandang de yishixingtai chuangxin" (Ideological Adaptation and the Responsiveness Dilemma: Innovations in Party Ideology Since the 18th Party Congress), in: Yu Keping/Thomas Heberer/Björn Alpermann (eds.): Zhonggong des zhili yu shiying. Bijiao de shiye (Governance and Adaptation of the Chinese Communist Party: A Comparative Perspective). Beijing: Zhonggong Bianyi Chubanshe (Central Compilation and Translation Press), 87-111.
2015: „Krise und politische Legitimität in Chinas langem 20. Jahrhundert" in Der Staat in globaler Perspektive. Zur Renaissance der Entwicklungsstaaten, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, Eds.: Burchardt, Hans-Jürgen, Peters, Stefan; 25 - 147
2014: "„Occupy“ in Hongkong: Entwicklung einer neuen Jugendprotestkultur"; in: GIGA Focus, Number 10 (with Guenter Schucher);
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/publications/gf_asien_1410.pdf
2014: "Rising Sino-Vietnamese Tensions in the South China Sea"; in: GIGA Focus, Number 8 (with Vera Dicke);
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/publications/gf_international_1408.pdf
2014: „Shifting Ideologics of Research Funding: The CPC's National Planning Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences", Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2/2014; 13-32; http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/viewFile/744/742
2014: „China's Unwritten Constitution. Ideological implications of a 'nonideological' approach", ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, No. 132, 52-59; http://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/publications/20140701.asien-132-th-holbig.pdf
2013: „Regionen als Prozesse. Asienbezogene Area Studies an den Schnittstellen kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Selbstreflexion“, IZO Working Papers on East Asia, No. 7
2012: „Reclaiming Legitimacy in Postrevolutionary China: Bringing Ideology and Governance Back In", in: Kane, John/Loy, Hui-Chieh/Patapan, Haig (eds.), Political Legitimacy in Asia. New Leadership Challenges. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 17 - 38
2011: „International Dimensions of Legitimacy: Reflections on Western Theories and the Chinese Experience", in: Deng, Zenglai/Guo, Sujian (eds.), Reviving Legitimacy. Lessons for and from China, Lanham, Boulder, New York: Lexington Books, 37 - 60
2011: „Die Finanzkrise in China: Auswirkungen auf die Legitimität der Parteiherrschaft"; in: Albrecht, Holger/Frankenberger, Rolf/ Frech, Siegfried (eds.), Autoritäre Regime. Herrschaftsmechanismen, Legitimationsstrategien, Persistenz und Wandel, Schwalbach: Wochenschau Verlag, 114-132 (Reprint of the article in Der Bürger im Staat, see below)
2010: „'Das Land hat einen Plan. Der Westen nicht.' China als autokratisches Erfolgsmodell?", Berliner Debatte Initial, 21:3 (November), 67-77
2010: „In Search of Legitimacy in Post-revolutionary China: Bringing Ideology and Governance Back In", GIGA Working Paper, No 127 (March), Hamburg (Abstract & full article) (with Bruce Gilley)
2010: „Die Globale Finanzkrise in China: Nationale und Internationale Dimensionen der Legitimität autoritärer Herrschaft", in: Albrecht, Holger/Frankenberger, Rolf (ed.), Autoritarismus Reloaded. Neuere Ansätze und Erkentnisse der Autokratieforschung, Reihe „Weltregionen im Wandel“, Baden Baden: Nomos, 227-248
2010: „Die Finanzkrise in China: Auswirkungen auf die Legitimität der Parteiherrschaft", Der Bürger im Staat, No. 1 (March), 38-43
2009: „Ideological Reform and Political Legitimacy in China: Challenges in the Post-Jiang Era", in: Heberer, Thomas/ Schubert, Gunter (ed.): Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China. Institutional change and stability, London/ New York: Routledge, 13-34 (full paper as GIGA Working Paper No. 18, 2006, 35 S.)
2008: „Die Ideologie ist tot, es lebe die Ideologie! Die KPCh versucht sich an der Modernisierung des Marxismus", in: Neue Gesellschaft – Frankfurter Hefte, Vol. 4, S. 38-40
2007: „Demokratie chinesischer Prägung – Der XVII. Parteitag der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas, in: China aktuell – Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, No. 2, S. 32-55
2007: „Sinisierte Demokratie – Chinas Parteiführung setzt auf eigene Werte", GIGA Focus Asien, No. 12
2006: „Ideologische Gratwanderung. Die Jahrestagung des Nationalen Volkskongresses", in: China aktuell – Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, No. 2, 51-59
2005: „Far away, so close - Zur Hoffnung des Dalai Lama auf eine Rückkehr nach Tibet", in: China aktuell, No. 4, 23-30
2005: „Zur aktuellen politischen Entwicklung in der VR China", in: BME / Ronald Bogaschewsky (ed.), Einkaufen und Investieren in China. BME-Leitfaden Internationale Beschaffung, Volume 2, 17-44 (2nd updated and extended edition)
2005: „Öffentliche Intellektuelle in der VR China -- am Ende einer kurzen Karriere?“, in: China aktuell, No. 1, 17-23
2004: „The Party and Private Entrepreneurs in the PRC", in: Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard/ Zheng Yongnian (ed.), Bringing the Party Back In. How China is Governed, Singapore: Eastern University Press, 239-268
2004: „The Emergence of the Campaign to Open Up the West: Ideological formation, central decision-making, and the role of the provinces", in: David S.G. Goodman (ed.) China's Campaign to Open Up the West': National, Provincial and Local Perspectives, New York/ Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 21-43
2004: „Intellektuelle als öffentliche Meinungsführer? Jiao Guobiaos Pamphlet gegen die ZK-Propagandaabteilung", in: China aktuell, Mai, 500-514
2004: „Auf dem Weg zur konstitutionellen Einparteienherrschaft? Die Verfassungsänderungen vom März 2004", in: China aktuell, März, 259-274
2003: „Hong Kong press freedom in transition", in: Robert Ash et al. (ed.), Hong Kong in Transition. One Country, Two Systems, London, New York: Routledge, 195-209
2003: „Gelingt die politische Steuerung der wirtschaftlichen Dynamik in China?", in: Draguhn, Werner (ed.), Chinas und Japans Bedeutung für Ostasien und die Weltwirtschaft, Hamburg: Institute of Asian Affairs, 60-78
2003: „Wandel in der Bewertung Chinas am Beispiel der Berichte und Analysen in ‚China aktuell'", in: Schüller, Margot (ed.), Strukturwandel in den deutsch-chinesischen Beziehungen. Analysen und Praxisberichte, Hamburg: Institute of Asian Affairs, 86-112
2003: „Chinas neue Regierung. Zur Sicherung politischer Legitimität nach dem X. Nationalen Volkskongress", in: China aktuell, March, 313-324
2002: „The Evolution of China's Political System. New Rules for Communist Party Rule?", in: Holbig, Heike / Ash, Robert (ed.), China's Accession to the World Trade Organization. European and Chinese Perspectives, Richmond: RoutledeCurzon 2002, 159-168
2002: „Konfliktpotenziale und Lösungsstrategien in der VR China", in: Kurtenbach, Sabine/ Mehler, Andreas (ed.), Die Vielfalt von Gewaltkonflikten. Analysen aus regionalwissenschaftlicher Perspektive, Hamburg: DÜI,131-152
2002: „Der XVI. Parteitag der KPCh. Teil I: Die neue Führungsgeneration", in: China aktuell, November, 1263-1275
2002: „Der XVI. Parteitag der KPCh. Teil II: Politische Weichenstellungen", in: China aktuell, December, 1402-1412
2002: „Fünf Jahre Hongkong in der VR China. Die Grenzen verschwimmen", in: China aktuell, June, 635-645
2002: „Politik in Shanghai: Einzigartigkeit als Kapital und Bürde", in: Institute of Asian Affairs Hamburg/ Regional Centre for Civic Education (ed.), Shanghai – Hamburgs Partnerstadt in China, Hamburg: Regional Centre for Civic Education, 2002, 51-81
2002: „Die Politik entdeckt die 'benachteiligten Gruppen'. Die 5. Plenartagung des IX. Nationalen Volkskongresses", in: China aktuell, March
2002: „Wende im internationalen Verhalten Chinas? Nationale Interessen in der globalen Antiterrorallianz", in: Internationale Politik, February, 1-6
2002: „Terror in Xinjiang", in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, January, 22-25
2001: „Projecting a Postnational World Order? China's Reaction to the September Bombings", in: NIASnytt (Copenhagen), December
2001: „Das 'andere China' – Shanghais politische Sonderrolle", China aktuell, November, 1215-1228
2001: „Chinas Reaktionen auf die Anschläge des 11. September", in: China aktuell, September, 976-982
2001: „Verzicht auf parteipolitische Weichenstellungen. Die 6. Plenartagung des XV. ZK", China aktuell, September, 983-986
2001: „Die KPCh öffnet sich für Privatunternehmer. Jiang Zemins theoretischer Durchbruch und die praktischen Konsequenzen", in: China aktuell, July, 739-746
2001: „Loyale Ambitionen. Die Jahrestagung des Nationalen Volkskongresses", China aktuell, March, 279-288
2001: „Lokalverwaltung in der VR China. Zum Wandel parteistaatlicher Kontrollstrukturen seit 1979", in: China aktuell, February, 153-168
2000: „Trust and Its Limitations: A Changing Discourse on Money during the People's Republic of China's Reform Period", in: Chan Kwok Bun (ed.), Chinese Business Networks. State, Economy, and Culture, Singapore: Prentice Hall, 14-34
2000: „Reformanlauf ins neue Jahrhundert – Offizielle und inoffizielle Agenda der 5. Plenartagung des XV. ZK", China aktuell, October, 1167-172
2000: „Drei Jahre Politisches System der SVR Hongkong“ (Teil I-III), in: China aktuell, July, 785-800, August, 907-916, September, 1048-1058
2000: „Falungong – Genese und alternative Deutungen eines politischen Konflikts", in: China aktuell, February, 135-147
1999: „Chinas WTO-Beitritt in politischer Perspektive – Wechselspiel zwischen nationalen und internationalen Verhandlungsprozessen", in: China aktuell, December, 1251-1265
1999: „Fünfzig Jahre Politik der VR China in der offiziellen chinesischen Geschichtsschreibung", in: China aktuell, October, 1030-1034
1998: Review article: „Alan R. Kluver. Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms. A Rhetoric of Myth and Orthodoxy. New York 1996", in: China Information XII:4 (Spring), 130-131
Furthermore since 1999:
- Regular reporting about current developments in domestic policy of the P.R. China and Hong Kong in the monthly journal China Aktuell issued by the Institute of Asian Affairs/GIGA, Hamburg
- Articles for special editions about current political and economic developments in the P.R. China, issued by the Institute of Asian Affairs/GIGA on the occasion of visits to China by the Federal Chancellor Schröder, the Federal Ministers Eichel, Fischer, Wieczorek-Zeul and Trittin, Minister-presidents Gabriel and Koch as well as Hamburg's mayor von Beust
- Expert's reports and evaluations concerning various programmes of development cooperation with the P.R. China
Talks at Academic Conferences, Workshops, Seminars
2021: “Official Visions of Democracy in Xi Jinping's China", Keynote Lecture held at the “China's Belt and Road Initiative: Curse or Blessing for democracy in Eurasia?" Symposium (organized by OSCE Academy and DVPW), Bishkek, 12.-13.03.2021 (digital conference) http://www.osce-academy.net/en/events/full/41.html
2021: „How China is Reshaping Global Economic Governance" (with Chu Sinan), GIGA Forum / GIGA Berlin Talk (Online webinar), 25.05.2021 https://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/veranstaltungen/24415052-china-reshaping-global-economic-governance/
2021:“China and Global Financial Organizations" (with Chu Sinan), Book chapter presented at the “Drifting Apart: International Institutions in Crisis and the Management of Dissociation Processes" (DRIFT) Authors' Workshop, 14.06.2021 (digital workshop)
2020: “China's Corona Crisis in Crossfire: Analyzing the dynamic interplay of internal and external propaganda", Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the “Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche China-Forschung" (ASC), 27-28.11.2020 (digital conference)
2018/05 “Reflecting Thirty Years of Research Collaboration In China", Input to Roundtable organized by the “International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes (IDCAR) Research Network, GIGA Hamburg
2018/04 “Making China Great Again – Xi Jinping Bids Farewell to the Reform Era", GIGA Forum, Hamburg
2018/01 “Ideology at the End of Ideology – China under Xi Jinping's Leadership", Lecture at Goethe University Frankfurt
2017/09 “What to expect from the 19th Party Congress: Xi Jinping Thought in the Making?", European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) China Strategy Group, Lisbon
2017/06 „Whose New Normal? Framing Economic Slowdown under Xi Jinping", Workshop on “Ideology, Propaganda, and Political Discourse in China", organized by Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, 14.-15.06.2017
2017/05 (mit Sebastian Biba) „Chinas Rolle in der G20 und die Beziehungen zu den USA", Ringvorlesung „Angriff auf die liberale Weltordnung – U.S. Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik unter Trump", Goethe-University Frankfurt, 18.05.2017
2015/07: „Higher Education and Authoritarian Resilience", Discussion of a Paper by Elizabeth Perry, "The Persistence of Authoritarianism in a Global Context", Retreat at the Holbrooke Forum for the Study of Diplomacy and Governance Statecraft in the 21st Century at the American Academy in Berlin, 06.07.2015
2015/03: „Demokratie als translinguale Praxis: Chinesische Aneignung deliberativer Demokratie", Autorenworkshop an der Universität Hamburg im März 2015 für ein PVS-Sonderheft 2016, "Demokratie jenseits des Westens: Theorien, Diskurse, Einstellungen“, Hamburg, 18.-20.03.2015
2014/11: „The Plasticity of Regions. A Social Sciences − Cultural Studies Dialogue on Asia-Related Area Studies", Yearly Meeting of the BMBF funded competence center "Regieren in China /Governing in China", Nov 20, 2014, Berlin,
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/veranstaltung/the-plasticity-of-regions-a-social-sciences%E2%80%93cultural-studies-dialogue-on-asia-related
2014/06: „Entanglements versus Entrenchments. Asien als Prozess", First Annual Conference of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, "Area Studies Revisited. Connnectivity, Comparison, Laterality", Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
2014/03: „Ideological Adaptation and the Responsiveness Dilemma: Innovations in Party Theory since the 18th Party Congress"), “International Conference: Governance, Adaptability and System Stability under Contemporary One-party Rule: Comparative Perspectives", Nanchang (Jiangxi Province), China
2014/03: „Staat und politische Legitimität in Chinas 'langem 20. Jahrhundert'", Tagung "Staat in globaler Perspektive", International doctoral programme Global Social Policies and Governance of the University of Kassel
2013/12: „Ideologie nach dem Ende der Ideologie - Das Beispiel Chinas", Promotionskolleg "Politikpeformanz autokratischer und demokratischer Regime", Institute for Political Science, Heidelberg University
2013/11: „The Ideologics of Offical Reserach Funding: Project calls of the National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science", "Round table: In the footsteps of the Chinese Communist Party? Pitfalls, challenges and potentials of our collaborative field work and data collection", Research Network "Governance in China" and Association for Social Science Research on China (ASC) Joint International Conference, 22-23 November 2013, Vienna
2013/10: „Regionen als kulturelle Prozesse: China und die World Values Surveys", contribution to the panel discussion „Politische Kultur(en) in der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft", conference „Politik, Region(en) und Kultur in der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft“ of the comparative political science section of the "Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW)“, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2012/06: „China's Unwritten Constitution - Ideological Implications of a 'Nonideological' Approach", International Conference „Social Change and the Constitution - a Conference on the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Constitution of the PR China of 1982", Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2012/06: „Framing Intangible Cultural Heritage in China - Academic and Legislative Debates", Inaugural Conference for the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) "Heritage in a Postcolonial Age", University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
2012/03: Discussant of Thomas Boccon-Gibod „Social Protection: Beyond Neoliberal Institutions", International Conference „Protecting the Weak - Concepts, Discourses and Institutions in East Asia", Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2012/01: „Einführung in das Teilgebiet Area Studies", talk in preparatory course „Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft", Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2010/10: „Revisiting Western legitimacy studies - Can we do without a normative dimension?", Talk in the lecture series “Salon" of the “China Center for Comparative Politics & Economics", China Translation and Compilation Bureau, Beijing, China
2010/07: „The International Dimension of Legitimacy. Reflections on Western Theories and the Chinese experience", International Conference “Legitimacy and Governance", Fudan University, Institute of Advanced Social Studies, Shanghai
2010/03: „Fragmented Corporatism? The case of Chinese industry associations", Association of Asian Studies (AAS) 2010 Annual Meeting, Association of Asian Studies, Philadelphia, US
2010/02: „Ideological Reform, Nationalism, Culturalism. Strategies to Legitimize Chinese Party Rule", Talk in the lecture series “East Asian Identities and Cultures Seminar Series", White Rose East Asia Centre at the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
2009/07: „Reclaiming Legitimacy in China" (with Bruce Gilley), International Conference „In Search of Legitimacy in Asia", Griffith University (Australia), National University of Singapore, Singapore
2009/06: Discussant of Dr. Marco Bünte „Autoritäre Systeme in Ostasien: Ein Überblick", author's workshop „Autoritarismus Reloaded", Discussant, University of Tübingen, Regional Centre for Civic Education Stuttgart, Bad Urach
2009/05: „Interne und externe Strategien der Legitimation autoritärer Herrschaft. Ein Beitrag zur theoretischen Diskussion", Workshop „Autoritäre Konsolidierung“, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg
2008/11: „The Debate on Party Legitimacy in China: A Mixed Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis", Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Science Research on China (ASC), Hamburg (with Bruce Gilley)
2008/08: „Legitimating Authoritarianism in China: A Quantitative/ Qualitative Analysis of Elite Discourse", 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, Mass. (with Bruce Gilley)
2008/06: „Remaking the CCP's ideology: determinants, progress and limits under Hu Jintao", Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: CCP's adaptation to domestic and foreign challenges, Asia Centre, Sciences Po, Paris
2008/02: „Wie stabil ist Chinas politisches System? Zu den Legitimationsgrundlagen der Kommunistischen Partei", Cycle Lecture at the Technische University of Braunschweig
2006/04: „Fragmented Corporatism: Interest Politics in China's Private Business Sector", European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions of Workshops, Nicosia
2005/08: „Fragments of a Language of Political Legitimation", Fourth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 4), Shanghai
2004/03: „Die bevorstehenden Verfassungsänderungen in China und die politischen Debatten im Hintergrund", Intensive course at the Sinological Seminar, Hamburg University, Hamburg
2003/05: „Opening up the West: The central policy-making process" International Conference „Opening up the West: China's Regional Development Policy", The China Quarterly, Institute of Asian Affairs, The Institute for International Affairs, UTS, Hamburg
2002/08: „Entrepreneurial Interests in the Making: The Case of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce", 14th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), Moscow
2002/06: „The Party and Private Entrepreneurs in the PRC“, International Workshop „Bringing the Party Back In: How China is Governed", Asia Research Centre, Business School, Copenhagen
2002/01: Discussant (theory) of Prof. Thomas Heberer „Strategische Gruppen und Staatskapazität: Das Beispiel der Privatunternehmer", Second academic meeting of the Association for Social Science Research on China (ASC) „Zwischen zentraler Kontrolle und dezentraler Initiative“, Witten-Herdecke
2001/11: „China nach dem 11. September - Anreize für eine transnationale Politik?" Talk in the lecture cycle „Globalisierung, Entwicklungsregionen und transnationale Politik“, Centre of Excellence Asia-Africa-Latin America, Hamburg
2001/08: „Falungong - the creation of a challenge for party rule in China", Second International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS II), Berlin
2001/02: „Das politische System der VR China - eine Einführung", Talk at Chinese intensive course of the Department of Chinese Language and Culture, University of Hamburg, Hamburg
2001/02: „The Evolution of China's Political System - New Rules for CCP Rule?", Fourth ECAN Annual Conference on „China's WTO Accession: National and International Perspectives“, Institute of Asian Affairs, EU-China Academic Network (ECAN),Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, Berlin
2000/11: „The WTO and the Evolution of Chinese Politics", EU-China Academic Network (ECAN) Private Policy Workshop on „China and Europe – Critical Perspectives“, ECAN, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg
2000/11: „Zur Legitimation staatlicher Herrschaft in China unter den Bedingungen außenwirtschaftlicher Öffnung", First academic meeting of the Association for Social Science Research on China (ASC) „Funktionswandel und Kapazität des Staates in China“, Witten-Herdecke
2000/06: „Can the dog recognize itself in the mirror? Hong Kong press freedom in transition", International Conference „Hong Kong in Transition 2000“, School of Oriental and African Studies (Contemporary China Institute), University of Warwick, University of Keele, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London
1998/07: „Brokering and Securing Credit: The Role of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce in the 1910 Financial Crisis", First International Symposium on „The Chamber of Commerce and Modern China“, Tianjin
1998/06: „Changing the Mode of Chinese Public Discourse: The Case of the Government's Inflation Politics 1987-1995", International Convention of Asia Scholars, Noordwijkerhout/ Leiden
1998/06: „Competitive Cooperation: A Preliminary Analysis of Shanghai Monetary Policies, 1908-1910", International Conference on „The Formation of a Multiethnic Urban Culture: The Shanghai Concessions 1850-1910“, Heidelberg
1996/09: „Trust and its limitations: Aspects of a changing discourse on money in the PRC reform period", International Academic Workshop on „Chinese business connections in global and comparative perspective“, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
1996/09: „Inflation in the PRC, 1988-89: Strategies for the legitimation of state power", 11th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, Barcelona
Non-Academic Talks and Media
2022/5: “'Chinesische Demokratie' unter Xi Jinping – Wie weit kann ein europäisches Konzept reisen“, Vortrag, Albert-Ballin-Forum Hamburg: „Interdisziplinäres Symposium zur Zukunft globaler Transfers: Waren, Menschen und Kulturen“, May 20, 2022.
2022/5: “Chinese Perceptions of the Russo-Ukraine War", Input, GIGA Forum on “The War in Ukraine and the Global South: Perceptions, Reactions, and Implications“, Online Event, GIGA Hamburg, May 17, 2022.
2021/12: „Der schnelle starke Staat? Die politischen Systeme Ostasiens in der Corona-Krise“, Polytechnische Gesellschaft e.V. Frankfurt am Main, Vortrag in der Reihe „Zukunft Mensch – Zukunft Demokratie“, December 14, 2021.
2021/11: “Lessons from the Third Resolution on Party History", Input, Public Opening Session on “Challenges Facing CPC Politics", International Conference on CPC Futures, Organised by East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, Online Event, November 19, 2021.
2021/10: “Ideological mobilization in the lead-up to the Twentieth Party Congress", Input, “China Strategy Group 2021", Institut Montaigne, Paris, and Fundacao Oriente, Lissabon, Arrabida, Portugal, October 22, 2021.
2021: “The New Multilaterisms", Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Schader-Stiftung, Friede-Springer-Stiftung, Aspen Institute, 30.09.2021 - 01.10.2021.2017/12: "Despoten auf dem Vormarsch - Herrschertypen sind wieder gefragt", invited guest at the television broadcast "Scobel" 3-SAT Dec. 14, 2017, http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/scobel/195137/index.html
2017/06: "US-Präsident Trump und seine Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik", interview, radio broadcast, June 1, 2017 "Aus Kultur und Sozialwissenschaften", DLF (Deutschlandfunk)
2016/09: „The ideological battle for China's future", Mercator Institute of Chinese Studies (MERICS) Workshop, Berlin, 20.09.2016.
2015/01: „Proteste in Hongkong: Innen- und außenpolitische Implikationen" (Briefing at the German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin)
2014/06: „Another Paramount Leader? New Visions and Dilemmas of the CCP under Xi Jinping", EU-China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN) International Conference, Brussels
2014/06: „Internal Chinese politics", Policy Briefing at the European External Action Service, organized by the EU-China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN), Brussels
2014/04: „Fünfhundert Tage Chinesischer Traum. Erwartungen an und Herausforderungen für die neue parteistaatliche Führung", Briefing for the President of the Hamburg City Parliament , Hamburg
2014/01: „Staat und politische Legitimität in Chinas 'langem 20. Jahrhundert'", conference "Staat in globaler Perspektive", Center for Global Social Policies and Governance at the University of Kassel
2013/10: „Interdisziplinäre Kooperation in den Area Studies am Beispiel des Standorts Frankfurt", Workshop "China in der deutschen Hochschullandschaft", supported by VolkswagenStiftung, Hanover
2009/09: „China und die Auswirkungen der Weltfinanzkrise", summer academy Asia conference for young professionals, German Federal Agency for Civic Education in cooperation with the Academy for Civic Education, Tutzing
2008/09: „One World, Different Dreams – Olympia 2008 und die Folgen für China", GIGA Forum Hamburg, GIGA, Hamburg
2008/09: „Medienbotschaften China-Deutschland: Vom Klischee zur Verständigung?", panel discussion with short presentations, Hamburg Media School, Hamburg
2008/06: „Liberalisierung oder Stärkung der Parteiherrschaft – Welche politischen Effekte zeichnen sich ab", GIGA Forum Berlin „Gewinner und Verlierer der Olympischen Sommerspiele: Politische, wirtschaftliche und soziale Implikationen für China", Berlin
2008/05: „One Party, One Dream – Wie stabil ist Chinas Parteiherrschaft“, lecture series at Überseemuseum Bremen „China 2008 - Einblicke in eine widersprüchliche Gesellschaft", Jacobs University, Bremen
2005/04: „Demokratie unter kommunistischer Einparteiherrschaft? Dorfwahlen in der Volksrepublik China", Asia seminar for sixth formers, Asia Forum, Regional Centre for Civic Education, Hamburg
2004/11: „Enter the Foreigner. Opportunities and Risks on China's Media Market", Panel „China's Emerging Media Market", The Hamburg Summit: China Meets Europe, Chamber of Commerce Hamburg
2004/05: „Wettlauf um China: Chancen und Risiken der Kooperation", talk at the „7. Schlangenbader Gespräch", Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Bad Schlangenbad
2002/02: „Wie reagieren Politik und Gesellschaft auf die Integration Chinas in die Weltwirtschaft? Vorläufige Antworten und offene Fragen", Seminar of Ost-West-Kolleg of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Brühl
2001/11: „China und die WTO - Folgen für das politische, gesellschaftliche und rechtliche System, Talk and round table discussion with representatives of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation within the framework of the seminar „China und die WTO - Auswirkungen auf die Handelspolitik Chinas“, German Foundation for International Development, German Asia Pacific Business Association, Hamburger Weltwirtschaftsarchiv (HWWA), Hamburg
2000/09: „Liberalisierung durch Weltmarktintegration? Zur Zukunft des politischen Systems in China", Seminar of Ost-West-Kolleg of the Federal Agency for Civic Education „China im neuen Jahrtausend: Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur im Umbruch“, Brühl
1998/09: „Südostasien im Rahmen der Weltwirtschaft: Länder, Kulturen, Märkte und Branchen", Seminar „Erfolg im Südostasien-Geschäft“, Technical College of Higher Education Karlsruhe
1997/11: „Hintergründe und Erfolgsaussichten der chinesischen Wirtschaftsreformen"; Seminar „Weltmacht des 21. Jahrhunderts. Einblicke in Politik und Gesellschaft des heutigen China“, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Pforzheim
1995/12: „Chinas Reformwirtschaft: Wachstum wohin?", China-Day, AIESEC, Karlsruhe
1995/05: „Die Inflation in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung der VR China", Symposium „China - ein Land im Umbruch", Sinological Seminar, Tübingen University
Prof. Dr. Heike Holbig
Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
Faculty of Social Sciences
Institute for Political Science
Interdisziplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO)
Westend Campus, PEG-building
Theodor-W.-Adorno Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Room: 3 G. 164 (3rd floor)
Tel. +49 69 798-36560
Fax: +49 69 798-763-36560
holbig@soz.uni-frankfurt.de