Regional Studies China

In-depth and research-oriented exploration of the language and the areas of society, economics, law, and culture of modern China

The China studies conducted in Cologne focus on the structures of state, economy, law, culture, and society in modern China.

Within this framework, current specialized research includes:

• Political history and the political system of modern China
• Media development and socio-economic aspects of Chinese reform policy
• Population policy and socio-economic developments in 20th-century China
• Public and economic law
• Constitutional theory and human rights in China
• Interdependencies between socio-cultural change and the development of a modern legal system
• Questions of Chinese literature and intellectual history since the second half of the 19th century