Protected: Breaking News: Tehran signals that military steps cannot be ruled out
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New book: Understanding China
This book offers a long-overdue, balanced, and objective perspective on China’s transformation from a constrained economy in the late 1970s to a leading global power in 2024. It examines the political motivations behind China’s rise through a detailed contextualisation of the reforms and opening-up policies
New Book: Media Realities
Media Realities is an intellectual intervention into today’s most urgent debates about truth, perception, and power. Including essays by journalists, artists, philosophers, and theorists, this interdisciplinary volume exposes how mass media—old and new—shape not just what we know, but what we believe to be real. From
New Book: 7,000 Kilometres Through the Middle Kingdom – By Bycicle!
As Far as the Feet Can Pedal: 7,000 Kilometres Through the Middle Kingdom Christian Y. Schmidt and Volker Häring dared the extraordinary: they cycled the original route of Mao’s Long March in spectacular fashion. Past rice terraces and mandarin orchards, through breathtaking—and often perilous—gorges, into
Breaking the Bias: Can AI Help Overcome the Ideological Divide in Western Media Discourse? – By HAN Zilin
In debates about AI, there’s always a reminder that we must protect the ‘human factor’ from being overtaken by AI. In our class on “AI and Journalism” at BNBU, we turned this idea on its head — because it’s precisely the ‘human factor’ that has
The Trade War the U.S. Will Lose – Essay by Wolfgang Scholtes
The Trade War the U.S. Will Lose: How Competent Governance Is China’s Ultimate Advantage When the United States launched its trade war against China under the Trump administration, the political and media narrative was unambiguous: China would blink first. The U.S., so the argument went,
Talk: AI in the Digital Humanities
In the lecture “AI for the Digital Humanities” Professor Herzog will address critical misunderstandings surrounding the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods in humanity studies. The session aims to debunk misconceptions while outlining an approach for using AI-focused methods in the academic work. Professor Herzog
There’s A New Systemic Rival In Town – Op-Ed by Markus Heidingsfelder
I think of Germany in the night, and all my sleep is put to flight (Heinrich Heine, Germany: A Winter’s Tale) My poor country is not only facing economic decline and grappling with the return of fascism, it is now also enduring public humiliation at
America has voted. So what? Let’s roll the dice next time – Op-Ed by Markus Heidingsfelder
Thank goodness that spectacle is finally over. The strange and often absurd election drama in the so-called “greatest nation on earth” has come to an end—for now. In China, the quantitative mechanism of elections isn’t a big deal. It would be wrong to say it’s