Das Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Veranstaltungen

Mittwoch, 20.02.2019, 19:00 Uhr
Ort: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg

Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
Vortrag

R. Bin Wong (University of California in Los Angeles)
»Chinese Political Economy in Historical Perspective: Changing Ways to ›Benefit the People‹«

Zum Redner
R. Bin Wong ist Wirtschaftshistoriker und Direktor des Asia-Instituts der University of California in Los Angeles. Er ist prominentes Mitglied der sogenannten California School of History und an der Debatte um die Great Divergence beteiligt. Zu seinen wichtigsten Werken gehören China Transformed (1997) und, gemeinsam mit Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Before and Beyond Divergence. The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe (2011).

Zum Vortrag (in englischer Sprache)
China’s contemporary domestic political challenges are often seen to be due to a divergence from Western political principles and practices. This view promotes a limited and incomplete view of Chinese political choices which are to a significant degree the product of earlier choices and their consequences, much in the same way that current political conditions in Europe and the U.S. are largely shaped by earlier choices and their consequences. For us to understand contemporary Chinese political challenges, historical perspectives on the present parallel to those we under-stand to be relevant in Europe and the U.S. will help us at least partially define the realm of both imaginable and desirable for Chinese leaders and their societies. This presentation examines con-temporary political challenges related to the ways in which Chinese leaders have envisioned their economy historically regarding the material welfare of their subjects according to the concept of »benefit the people« (li min 利). It provides an example of how to understand politics in today’s China and reasons for the country’s continuing political differences from those found in American and European politics.

Der Vortrag ist Teil des Forschungsprojekts »Chinesisches und europäisches Wirtschaftsdenken im Vergleich«, das am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften von Iwo Amelung (Professor für Sinologie an der Goethe-Universität und Goethe-Fellow am Kolleg) und Bertram Schefold (Professor für Wirtschaftsgeschichte an der Goethe-Universität und Senior Fellow am Kolleg) durchgeführt wird.

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