Graduate School of East Asian Studies

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"Beauty is Power" - Lookism in South Korea

"The North Korean abduction issue: emotions, securitisation and the reconstruction of Japanese identity from 'aggressor' to 'victim' and from 'pacifist' to 'normal'" (Review)

(Ver-)Handlungsspielräume der Bewegung gegen genetisch veränderte Lebensmittel: Die transnationale Vernetzung japanischer Verbraucherorganisationen

A tale of two e-mobilities

Abe looks through legal loophole for collective self-defence

Accountability Relations and Market Reform in China’s Electric Power Sector

An Unexpected Pioneer in Asia: The Enfranchisement of Foreign Residents in South Korea

BETWEEN COMMON HUMANITY AND PARTIALITY: THE CHOGYE BUDDHIST CHAPLAINCY MANUAL OF THE SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

Between Second and Third World: North Korean Use of “Imagined Affinity” in the Socialist Globalization Project with Regard to Tanzania (1965–1970)

Between global models and local resources: Building private art museums in the Shanghai West Bund

Brasilianische Migranten in Hamamatsu – Zugang zu einem multikulturellen Feld

Bringing green food to the Chinese table: How civil society actors are changing consumer culture in China

Candidate Selection Reform in South Korea: The Persistence of Exclusive Practices Despite Inclusive Rules

Challenges and Threat Perceptions Regarding Central Asia in China and the EU

Challenging the Power of the Prosecution?

Changing civil–military relations in Japan: 2009–2012

China's Central Asia Connection

China's North Korea Debate: Redrawing the Red Line

China's Rural urbanization and the state: Putting the countryside first?

China: Zwischen Schlüsselrolle und Marginalisierung

Chinas BRICS-Vorsitz 2017: Peking hadert mit der eigenen Vormachtstellung im Club der Regionalmächte

Climate research priorities for policy-makers, practitioners, and scientists in Georgia, USA

Creating the Internal Enemy

Das Verbot der Vereinten Progressiven Partei in der Republik Korea

Debating Academic Autonomy in the German-Speaking Field of China Studies: An Assessment

Der Garnelenhandel zwischen Japan und Vietnam: Ein Beispiel für transnationale Warenketten und die Regulierung von Lebensmittelsicherheit in Asien

Der Wiederaufbau der Seele beginnt erst jetzt

Die 20. Parlamentswahlen in Südkorea 2016

Discerning Transnational Flows: The Formation and Development of Chinese Newcomers’ Transnational Businesses in Japan

Does China's "alliance treaty" with North Korea still matter?

Environmentalist protection: feminist methodology and participant risk for research with Chinese NGOs

European View: EU-US-China Relations and Climate Deals: A Threat to Transatlantic Relations?

Feste Größe. Warum der Aufstieg Chinas nicht vorbei ist.

Food safety and consumer trust in post-Fukushima Japan

Food, agriculture and risk in contemporary Japan

Gefühle triumphieren über Fakten

Germany’s quietly growing relations with Japan

Global Decarbonization after Covid-19: Strategic Options for Kazakhstan

Grand Strategy or Grand Identity? Narratives of “Universal Values” and Autonomy in Japanese Foreign Policy

Haukens historiske kall [The hawk’s historical calling]

How China is expanding beyond Western institution

How dependent is Germany on China?

Human borders? Regulating immigration and human trafficking in East Asia

India-Pakistan tensions test the Shanghai cooperation organization's mettle

Intentional Wanghong Environments Mediating Urban Futures in Xiongan New Area

Japan's strategic contrast

Japanese Climate Related Aid to Southeast Asia: Furthering ‘Weak’ or ‘Strong’ Sustainability?

Japan’s Military-Political Domination of Occupied North China and the Local Chinese Response, 1937-1945

Japan’s ideal and less ideal victims

Japan’s nuclear power plans don’t add up

Judicialization of Politics and the Korean Constitutional Court: the Party Chapter Abolition Case

Kazakhstan’s Three-way Balancing Act between Competing Powers is under Pressure

Korea Focus - Working Paper No. 12

La clase media urbana de la República Popular de China

Lay People and Experts in Citizen Science: Monitoring Radioactively Contaminated Food in Post-Fukushima Japan

Longtime democrat, future leader: the particular logic of Japan's values discourse

More individual choice? Students’ share in decision-making at the transition to high school in Japan (1995-2009)

More individual choice? Students’ share in decision-making at the transition to high school in Japan (1995-2009)

Non-surgery in the Salons: The Ambiguous Legitimization of Beauty Work in Urban China

Nordkoreas Atomraketen: Handlungsoptionen der USA und ihrer Verbündeten

North Korea and China, Friends Again?

North Korea sanctions still aiming for denuclearisation?

North Korean Engagement in Africa During the Cold War:A Survey of Recent Historiographical Analyses

One letter, two false signals

Online Civic Engagement and the Anti-domestic Violence Movement in China: Shifting Norms and Influencing Law

Pankaj Mishra: From the Ruins of Empire. The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia

President Moon Jae-in − The Right Choice for South Korea

Punish and Drain. How China is Using its Visa Policy

Reciprocation? Not in Media Coverage

Regionalwahlen in Südkorea 2018

Reimagining Nativeness from a Migrant Anthropologist’s Positionality

Rethinking Business History in Modern China

Rural urbanization under Xi Jinping: From rapid community building to steady urbanization?

Serbian-Chinese ties - a potential threat for EU?

Special Issue: Japan's Pivot in Asia

Special issue: Dimensions of Sino–Japanese rivalry in a global context

Strengthening Germany-Japan Security Cooperation: An Examination of the Trends, Reasons, and Challenges

Structure of North China's Food Market and Circulation Network: Its "External Dependency", "Dynamic" and "Pre-modernity" (1928-1937)

Surviving disconnections

Techniques and Concepts for Shaping the Future: Assessment of Current Planning Thought Through a Content Analysis of Town Planning Textbooks

Ten years, nine floods

The 57th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival: Enclave Amidst the Chaos?

The 57th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival: enclave amidst chaos?

The CAI under the Chinese lens: "Win-Win" for whom?

The Cosmopolitization of Remembrance —The Kwangju Uprising and the UNESCO “Memory of the World” Register

The Great Urban Leap? On the local political economy of rural urbanisation in China

The Hierarchy of Calories? State Intervention, Food Rationing, and Food Smuggling in Occupied Tianjin (1937–1945)

The Ideas behind Putin's War in Ukraine

The Image of the Beautiful Woman: Beauty Ideals in Modern Urban China

The Institution of Presidential Impeachment in South Korea, 1992-2017

The Official Discourse of the Chinese Middle Class

The Online-Offline Nexus: Social Media and Ethnographic Fieldwork in Post-3.11 Northeast Japan

The People's Map of Global China - Kazakhstan

The Use of “Comrade” as a Political Instrument in the Chinese Communist Party, from Mao to Xi

The future of China's youth

The other city: alternative infrastructures of care for the underclass in Japan

Urban Areas as Potential Sinks for Tropical Swallowtail Moth Lyssa zampa

Verzicht als politische Strategie: Japanische Konsumenten und die Regulierung von Agrarpestiziden (1960-1980)

War is peace: the rearticulation of “peace” in Japan’s China discourse

What China’s North Korea Policy Reveals About Its Stance on Russia’s War in Ukraine

What is Central Asia for China? A Chinese Perspective

Why Beijing's air pollution matters: human health as a meaningful ground for future EU-China collaboration on non-traditional security

Why China will not cooperate with the United States on North Korea

Will the silent comeback of coal threaten Japan’s climate goals?

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"Protect Agriculture and Food Safety!": Transnational Protests against Preferential Trade Agreements in East and Southeast Asia

Ausstieg oder Wiedereinstieg? Abes widersprüchliche Atompolitik

Chapter Three - Migrant Workers in South Korean Society

Chapter Two - The Deterioration of South Korean Democracy

Cultural diversity through the lens of YouTube: comparing Germany and Korea

Dazao xiandai dushi de fojiao shenfen rentong—yi 1920 niandai Shanghai de Shijie fojiao jushilin weili” (Making Space for Buddhist Identity in the Modern Metropolis—The Case of the World Buddhist Householder Grove in 1920s Shanghai)

Dealing with a proactive Japan

Die Ohnmacht japanischer Verbraucher: Abes Freihandelspolitik und die Regulierung genetisch veränderter Lebensmittel

Die heilige Familie

Discourse on food safety and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Perspectives from Japan

Einleitung: Umkämpftes Essen in globalen Kontexten

Embracing the periphery: Urbanites’ motivations for relocating to rural Japan

Gay Identity Formation in South Korea

Japans kulinarische Ökonomie und ihre Kosten

Kulinarische Globalisierung: Koreanische Restaurants in Berlin zwischen Authentizität und Hybridisierung

Kulinarische Widersprüche: Japanische Konsumenten und die alltäglichen Herausforderungen im globalen Agri-Food-System

La clase media urbana de la República Popular de China

Lebensmittelstandards als „Black Box“: Diskurse über Lebensmittelsicherheit und das Transpazifische Freihandelsabkommen in Japan

Politikgestaltung und Politikfelder

Staat und Gesellschaft

State Intelligence in Japan

Sweden-Japan relations: From economic partners to geopolitical allies?

The Malayan Communist Party, Internationalism, and Chinese Political Participation during the Cold War (1920s–1950s)

Transnationale Wissensnetzwerke: Standards für und Messungen von Radioaktivität in Lebensmitteln in Japan nach Fukushima

Transregional protest against preferential trade agreements

We Planted All These Trees Decades Ago: Elder Activism against Devaluing Women’s Labour

城镇化的大跃进？关于中国农村城镇化中的地方政治经济 (The Great Urban Leap? On the local political economy of rural urbanization in China)

A matter of human rights of refugees or a diplomatic humanitarian issue of defectors? : the influence of conservative and progressive ideologies and identities on the framing of the 'North Korean defector issue' in the South Korean media

Are high-skilled workers core human resources? : Korean firms' skill-employment strategies since the 1997 Asian financial crisis

Bringing the firm back in the study of the minimum wage : strategic responses of firms in China from an institutional and organizational perspective

Central-provincial Politics and Industrial Policy-making in the Electric Power Sector in China

Contentious Narratives on National Identity of South Korea: How to Understand the Self and the Significant Others, North Korea and the United States

Corporate monitoring by Chinese environmental NGOs an firm responses : a comparative case study across three industry fields

Entrepreneurialization of Ethnicity: An Ethnographic Research on Chinese Newcomer Entrepreneurs in Tokyo

Essays on renminbi internationalization

Formal institutional change and the continuity of informal practices: candidate selection procedures in South Korea

From continuing higher education to university-based lifelong learning : the institutional change of the continuing higher education policy in Korea from 1995 to 2017

Human rights in contention : the discursive politics of North Korean human rights

Initiating agenda-building under authoritarian settings : the public debate on the abolition of the "re-education through labor" (Laojiao) system in China (2010-2013)

Institutional logics in an authoritarian state : why the Chinese Communist Party's command mechanisms have remained unaffected by legal reforms

Internal politics, great powers' intervention and EU-Japan security cooperation.

Japan's multi-level water governance export to Yangon, Myanmar and Manila, the Philippines

Japan's temporal others: how the past has shaped Japanese postwar security policy

Japanese responses to internationalization of higher education: actors at universities and their involvement in the contemporary reform

Measuring Frames: Discursive Institutions in Polarized Politics

Organisational Transformation of Chinese Media Groups: The Gradual Emergence of Strategic Actors

Post-developmental state across the Taiwan Strait : an institutionalist explanation of Taiwan's liberal-oriented economic policy toward China between 1990 and 2016

Reforming nuclear safety administration in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear accident : a critical juncture in regulatory practices

The 50,000 Won Friends: Gift Money Exchange in the Alumni Network of South Korea

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China's strategy of shaping international norms

The ambiguity of kizuna : the dynamics of social ties and the role of local culture for community building in post-3.11 Japan.

The discursive struggle over LGBT rights in South Korea : the politics of pro LGBT policy adoption in a hostile environment

The emergence of private art museums in China : legitimizing a new organizational form in the Shanghai West Bund cultural corridor

The moving temples : a study of fishermen's religious associations in the East Lake Tai Basin

Trust, commitment and the incomplete agreement : a comparative case study on the 1964 PRC-France normalization and the 1970 PRC-Canada normalization

Vulnerability locked in : explaining local climate adaptation deficits in China and the United States

Who plans small towns and how? Multiple Orders of worth in spatial planning at the local level in Sichuan, China

Monographs and Edited Books

Central Asia Forecasting 2021

Civil Society on the Move. Transition and Transfer in Germany and South Korea

Die Aufgabe der Japanologie: Beiträge zur kritischen Japanforschung

Familie - Leben - Pandemie: Worte und Welten chinesischer Wanderarbeiterinnen

Feminist Time Warp

Food, Agriculture and Risk in Contemporary Japan

German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences

Governing Insecurity in Japan – The Domestic Discourse and Policy Response

Immigration Governance in East Asia

Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance

Lokale Identität und ländliche Revitalisierung - Die japanische Keramikstadt Arita und die Grenzen der Globalisierung

Lost and Found in Translation - Circulating Ideas of Policy and Legal Decisions Processes in Korea and Germany

Länderbericht Korea

Making China Modern

Interpretationen und Institutionen einer chinesischen Göttin in Taiwan

Ostasien im 21. Jahrhundert. Politik - Gesellschaft- Sicherheit - Regionale Integration

Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China: Institutional Change in the Film and Music Industries

Polarized Politics in South Korea: Political Culture and Democracy in Partisan Newspapers

Recovering Buddhism in Modern China

Sarajin jigudang gongjeonhaneun jeondangkaehyeok (사라진 지구당 공전하는 정당개혁)

Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community

Speculative Grounds: Positions on Beijing's Transformation

Umkämpftes Essen - Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten

Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan

The Chinese Lifestyle The Reconfiguration of the Middle Class in Contemporary China

The Nanyang Revolution

The Origins of the Panmunjom Regime - The Korean War and Liberal Peace Projects

The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change

The Quality of Democracy in Korea

Tracing Japanese Leftist Political Activism

Umkämpftes Essen - Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten

China's technological catch-up to a green future

Clinton, Maggie: Revolutionary nativism : fascism and culture in China, 1925-1937 . Durham: Duke University Press, 2017 . 978-0-8223-6362-0

Drawing the sea near: Satoumi and coral reef conservation in Okinawa by C. Anne Claus, University of Minnesota Press, 2020, 256 pp. $27.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-5179-0662-7, $108.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-5179-0661-0

Hassid, Jonathan: China's unruly journalists : how committed professionals are changing the People's Republic . London: Routledge, 2016 . Routledge contemporary China series ; 139 . 978-1-138-95574-5

Heilmann, Sebastian: Red swan : how unorthodox policy-making facilitated China's rise . Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2018 . 978-988-237-747-9

Netzwerkmobilisierung im Verborgenen

Pankaj Mishra: From the Ruins of Empire. The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia

Rethinking urbanization in modern Chinese history

Review. The Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution: The Political Impact of Market. Routledge Contemporary China Series, 61. By Lance L.P. Gore. New York; London: Routledge, 2013

Review: Anna Wiemann: Networks and Mobilization Processes: The Case of the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement after Fukushima

Review: Byung-Yeon Kim: Unveiling the North Korean Economy. Collapse and Transition

Review: Gipouloux, François (Hrsg.): China`s Urban Century. Governance, Environment and Socio-Economic Imperatives. Cheltanham 2015.

Review: Manchurian Memories in Postwar Japan -- Satou Ryou, Kano Tomohiro, Yukawa Makie (eds.)

Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas: Food safety after Fukushima : scientific citizenship and the politics of risk . Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019] . 978-0-8248-7213-7

The Frontline of Research on Communication, Media, and Culture in Korea

[Konferenzbericht] First GEAS Graduate Conference

[Konferenzbericht] Social Science Research and Society in Japan and Germany: Impact, Institutions and Perspectives, JDZB Berlin, 23–25. November 2018

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Protests & Diplomacy in Central Asia: shifting roles of China, Russia, and Europe

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