ASC conference 2017Yan Zhe

ASIEN – Nr. 146 (2018) pp. 123–24

Köln, December 1–2, 2017

The 2017 conference of the Association for Social Science Research on China (Arbeitskreises Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung, ASC) was held in Cologne on December 1st and 2nd, 2017. An international array of scholars gathered to share their current interests and present their most recent findings. The conference was opened with a keynote address from Vivienne Shue (Oxford University); presented by Anna Ahlers (University of Oslo). Shue situated nuanced detail of the Party’s governance project within a macrohistorical context of empire, and identified a number of implications that may impact social and economic developments initiated in the Xi era…