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
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: 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,
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
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
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
In his book “The Art of Defeat,” historian Holger Afflerbach examines the history of surrender and efforts to contain violence in war. But what about the “art of defeat” in present-day conflicts? Mr. Afflerbach, it seems that the art of defeat, which you have described
On March 6th, Wolfgang Hirn’s new book will be released – unfortunately, initially only in German. It is titled “The Tech War: China vs. USA – and Where is Europe?” Hirn says, “The idea for this arose in the spring of last year when it
The word “just” in the title of the latest book by Daniel Bell and Wang Pei, “Just Hierarchy,” plays with dual meanings, encompassing both “fair” and “merely.” The second sense highlights a deeper aspect of hierarchies: they do more than structure power; they shape personal