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Mai Corlin deltog i denne uges podcast "Kampen om historien - arven fra Tiananmen-massakren."🎙
Her diskuterer hun de seneste ugers omfattende covid-protester i Kina, hvor tusindvis af vrede kineserne har mobiliseret sig på tværs af Kina og krævet coronarestriktionerne afskaffet. ✉️ Der drages paralleller til studenterdemonstrationerne på Den Himmelske Fredsplads i Beijing 1989 og hvilke ligheder og forskelle der er mellem protesterne dengang og i dag. 💫

🎙 Lyt til hele podcasten i linket herunder. 🎙

Ekstern Podcast: Arven efter Tiananmen-massakren Kina har i de seneste uger været genstand for omfattende protester i flere af landets storbyer. Tusindvis har demonstreret imod kommunistpartiets strenge Covid-restriktioner. 

What does China want and where are U.S.-China tensions headed? 🇨🇳💥🇺🇸 Watch this lecture with Cornell University professor Jessica Chen Weiss to find out!

The Chinese government must grapple with domestic debates and divisions over everything from when and how to use force in China’s territorial disputes to how ambitiously to pursue climate solutions at short-term costs to economic growth📈

Through the lens of domestic politics, nationalism, and regime insecurity in China, Professor Weiss assesses Beijing’s international ambitions, the prospects for peaceful coexistence, and the future of international order.

Click the link below to watch! 👇

Public Lecture: A World Safe for Autocracy? | With Professor Jessica Chen Weiss On November 10, the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Copenhagen hosted Jessica Weiss Chen, Professor at Cornell University, alongside the Think...

For mere end 100 år siden søgte Lu Xun at udbrede science fiction-genren i Kina 🛸🇨🇳 Dette er nu omsider ved at ske, men visionerne i vor tids kinesiske science fiction-værker er langt fra de utopier, Lu Xun håbede at kunne inspirere til 🤖🔬

Bo Ærenlund Sørensen, adjunkt i Kinastudier på Københavns Universitet, stiller i dette blogindlæg skarpt på science fiction i Kina.

Efter hans mening er science fiction den mest interessante litterære genre i samtidens Kina, hvilket nok både skyldes, at teknologiske nyvindinger gennemgribende forandrer livet i Kina, og at de litterære censorer ikke hidtil har værdiget genren megen opmærksomhed 🫣

Læs hele indlægget her!

Blog Post: Kinesisk science fiction - nye perspektiver på menneske, videnskab og samfund Bo Ærenlund Sørensen, adjunkt i Kinastudier på Københavns Universitet, belyser i dette blogindlæg science fiction i Kina. 

⭐️Join us for this last ThinkChina event! ⭐️

Dr Carwyn Morris from Leiden University will enlighten us with his research on activism, migration, governance, secrecy, and internet celebrity in contemporary China, with a focus on how these subjects manifest in urban-digital environments and as hybrid phenomena. 📲📡 Morris will discuss different types of hybrid fieldwork, the role of temporality in hybrid fieldwork, and how he takes a 'spatial' approach to digital relations in order to find new avenues of enquiry. 💻💡

The event will be held on Friday the 2nd.

Read more here. 👇

ThinkChina Lecture: Researching urban-digital life in/on/from China Dr Carwyn Morris from Leiden University will discuss researching urban-digital life in contemporary China.

China’s rural heartlands and the urban-rural linkages are crucial if we want to understand China today 🚜🇨🇳🏙️

New technologies have helped modernize China’s agriculture in recent decades and allowed China’s rural labor to migrate into the cities and their industries that have driven China’s economic miracle. The modernization of rural areas, their social transformation, and the interaction of these intertwined processes are less known than China’s urban development, although China’s phenomenal development can only be fully understood by examining them.

In this ThinkChina Video, Lena Kaufmann from the University of Zurich gives an insight into this topic with her lecture ”Agriculture-Migration Nexus in China: A Socio-Technical Perspective on Land Use” 📹

Watch it below 👇

Seminar with PhD Lena Kaufmann: The Agriculture-Migration Nexus in China In cooperation with the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, ThinkChina presents this Seminar with the speaker Lena K...

Ny kronik af professor emeritus Bertel Heurlin: Putin truer med atomkrig. 👀 Kina truer med krig, hvis Taiwan erklærer sig uafhængig. Det kan føre til atomkrig, men den kommer nok alligevel ikke.💥
Læs kronikken hvori Heurlin giver sit bud på, om vesten skal frygte en atomkrig og hvilke scenarier vi skal være opmærksomme på i det storpolitiske magtspil i en global verdensorden der er i konstant forandring. 💫

Op-ed: Ro på – atomkrigen er nok ikke lige om hjørnet Kronik af professor emeritus Bertel Heurlin: Putin truer med atomkrig. Kina truer med krig, hvis Taiwan erklærer sig uafhængig. Det kan føre til atomkrig, men den kommer nok alligevel ikke. Medmindre ...

Nancy Pelosi’s besøg til Taiwan var en voldsom provokation set fra Kina og ses som endnu et led i underminering af USA’s “Et Kina” politik, som er fundamentet for de diplomatiske relationer mellem Kina og USA. For Beijing er det derfor afgørende at få sat en stopper for, hvad ses som en faretruende glidebane 🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇸

Camilla T. N. Sørensen, Ph.d. og lektor ved Forsvarsakademiet, analyserer i denne udgivelse rystelserne, som besøget har forsaget.

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ThinkChina Analysis: Nancy Pelosi’s besøg ryster forhold mellem USA og Kina Camilla T. N. Sørensen analyserer i denne udgivelse Nancy Pelosi’s besøg til Taiwan i august. 

📣 Very exciting upcoming event this Thursday, November 10❗️

Jessica Chen Weiss, Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Cornell University, will guest the University of Copenhagen and give a talk on what China wants internationally and where U.S.-China tensions are headed 🇨🇳⚡️🇺🇸

Professor Weiss served as senior advisor to the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department and is the author of ”Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations”. She will assess Beijing’s international ambitions, the prospects for peaceful coexistence, and the future of international order.

The talk is arranged by Faculty of Social Science in connection with Think China and the Centre for Military Studies, and will be moderated by Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, Dean at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Copenhagen.

More information and registration below 👇

Public Lecture: A World Safe for Autocracy? Public lecture by professor Jessica Chen Weiss: "What does China want, and where are U.S.-China tensions headed?"

Read professor emeritus Jørgen Delman's Policy Brief: Xi Jinping's moment of glory. ⭐️Delman discusses the 20th Party Congress, Xi Jinping's vision, development and economy for China and the role of the new members of the Politburo: "The Party is now Xi Jinping’s, and many Chinese do not seem to mind as long as they have jobs and stable incomes."
What does this mean for the West and for Denmark? Read the article below to find out. 💡

ThinkChina Policy Brief: Xi Jinping’s Moment of Glory - Winner Takes All ThinkChina Policy Brief by professor emeritus Jørgen Delman, about the 20th party congress and the new members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo.

While we are all waiting for the election results in Denmark, we might as well spend the time looking abroad! 🗳️🇩🇰

In the wake of the recently concluded 20th Party Congress, many people might have trouble interpreting the meaning of the political spectacle. To mitigate this, ThinkChina sat down with two China experts from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Elena Meyer-Clement, Associate Professor, and Yi Ma, postdoc, in order to collect the loose threads and try to understand what we have learned from the biggest political event of the year in China and, more importantly, what the implications will be for business and politics in Denmark and the West 🇨🇳🇩🇰

Read the blog post here! 👇

Blog Post: What We Have Learned From the 20th Party Congress What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress? ThinkChina sat down with two China experts from UCPH to find out. 

Tensions in the Taiwan Strait are at an all-time high❗️💣 But what does the future hold for the conflict between China, Taiwan, and the US? 🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇸

In this video, Camilla T. N. Sørensen sets out to give an assessment of the security situation and the evolving military balance in the Taiwan Strait. The comprehensive Chinese military exercises around Taiwan as well as the careful, but firm, US and Taiwanese responses indicate how “a new normal” is being established in the Taiwan Strait characterized by a higher level of security tension and military presence and activities.

Watch the video here!

ChinaTalk Lecture: The New Normal in the Taiwan Strait Together with Centre for Military Studies at the University of Copenhagen, ThinkChina had the pleasure of hosting Camilla T. N. Sørensen, Ph.D. and Associate...