The kick-off event for the AREA Ruhr Graduate School on
Transnational Institution Building and Transnational Identities in East Asia
takes place on December 6, 2017 from 5 to 7 pm at the Gerhard-Mercator-Haus, Lotharstr. 57, 47057 Duisburg.
For the location, please see https://www.uni-due.de/de/universitaet/gebaeude_duisburg_lr.php
Professor Glenn Hook (School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield) will give a keynote address on
Institution Building in East Asia – Fishing for Governance
The talk will be followed by a discussion and a small reception.
If you would like to attend, please register by November 27, 2017 with stefanie.langenberg@area-ruhr.de
Until the end of 2016, China’s Pension System covers more than 888 million people. Among them, about 379 are covered by the urban employees’ scheme, others are covered by residents’ scheme which is highly related to Hukou. However, these two schemes are very different from each other. Besides, contribution, benefits and fund differences between different areas in China are huge. This study will (1) introduce different schemes of China’s pension system. (2) present the challenges that China’s pension system facing from four perspectives: coverage, adequacy, multi pillars and sustainability. (3) analyze the reasons of the above challenges. (4) show what the Chinese government has done. (5) propose possible solutions.
Peng Guo, PhD is Senior Lecturer of Public Administration at China University of Labor Relations, Beijing.
AREA Ruhr Doctoral Programme
Welcome Co-Directors – Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gerald Chan; Prof. Dr. Anja Jetschke – Poster presentations: Anastasia Nikulina; Aya Adachi; Julia Breuer; Yasmin Koppen
Tao Liu ist Junior-Professor für Comparative Sociology and Society of China / Vergleichende Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Gesellschaft Chinas am Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften IN-EAST.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom will place China’s resurgence and the way it is altering the international order into historical perspective. Unlike what is often done, the lecture refrain from revisiting the era of the Silk Road or the late Ming or early Qing eras. Instead, Jeffrey Wasserstrom will compare and contrast the situation today with that at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century when China’s situation was at a low point and the powers on the rise included Japan, Germany, Russia and, above all, the United States.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor at the History School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Discussants: Prof. Flemming Christiansen, Political Sociology of China, IN-EAST; Dr. Yu Jie, Head of China Foresight, London School of Economics and Political Science; –
Please register by December 10, 2017 at
events@gcr21.uni-due.de
