GRK 1613:  Risk and East Asia

• Subject Area: Social Sciences ; Economics
• Term: from 2009 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 122408594

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

The Research Training Group "Risk and East Asia" contributed to theorizing contemporary institutional change in globalizing societies by developing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the governance of social, political and economic risks. The research program defined institutional change as shifts in responsibilities for protections between states and markets, public and private actors, collectivities and individuals, and endeavored to bring the relatively neglected East Asian growth economies into theorizing and research in European social sciences. Four subthemes in the research program allowed the college to capture how large and universal processes of institutional change - marketization, individualization, decentralization and transnationalization - are both relevant and particular in the East Asian region. The structure of the research program achieved a high degree of cross-disciplinary and intra-regional knowledge exchange about risk governance across the individual doctoral projects. The research results from the first phase of the program contributed to a significant refinement of the sub-themes, with a more specific focus on mixes of state/market and public/private governance of risks in market transformation processes, an acknowledgement of the limits of individualization theories when applied to East Asian political economies, and a reconceptualization of decentralization processes in an East Asian context as being an interaction of central and (rather than a devolution to) local authority and governance mechanisms. A more specific focus on transnational ties and institution-building proved challenging for individual doctoral projects, leading to a focus in the second phase on the recruitment and support of postdoctoral scholars for the comparative and transnational research components. An explicitly international recruitment practice and English language course program resulted in a large share of international doctoral and postdoctoral participants. In all cases, the East Asian language competence of participants was given special scrutiny, as well as their prior disciplinary training. The training program aimed to advance social scientific and regional studies competence for research, enabled by the constellation of expertise in social science disciplines (Economics, Political Science, Sociology) and language-based regional studies (China, Korea, Japan) characterizing the Duisburg Institute of East Asian Studies. This unique context among continental European Asian Studies institutions provided strong support for doctoral candidates to enter positions after graduation in both social science institutions and regional studies centers around the world. All doctoral projects were required to undertake field research abroad in an East Aslan country. To insure that doctoral projects could be completed within three-years, an innovative measure in the training program was the development of an empirical research training seminar abroad, scheduled at the beginning of the second year field-research phase, with two centers of excellence in social scientific research in China (Renmin University) and Japan (The University of Tokyo). Doctoral candidates from Duisburg were brought together with their peers at these institutions to evaluate their research designs, and to receive initial guidance from leading Asian scholars. Still unique to doctoral qualification in Germany, many of the second reviewers and committee members for the final doctoral examinations were foreign scholars, a measure which improved recognition of the achievements and the career advancement of the doctoral candidates internationally. Guest researcher and international activities of the college supported the integration of doctoral and postdoctoral members in their respective scientific communities in North America, Europe, and, importantly for foreign scholars of East Asian political economies, in centers of excellence in China and Japan. With the expiration of the second funding period in 2018, the course program and field research seminar abroad have been continued as an established doctoral curriculum in Duisburg, across a range of university-funded, newly funded and individual-scholarship-supported PhD training activities. The high level of international integration of the Duisburg East Asian research is now continued through a number of joint research and training activities and exchanges with leading East Asian researchers.

Publications

• (2009): Case Studies of Katrina Hurricane and Greensburg Tornado in America. In: Q. Zhang and Q. Lu (eds.): Catastrophe and NGO: Challenges and Responses in Global Perspectives, 66-111. Beijing: Beijing University Press
  Yu, Mei
  
• (2009): Keiretsu corporate networks are innate to the Japanese auto sector, but could this system finally be changing? In: J@pan Inc 85: 10-12
  Kawai, Norifumi
  
• (2010): Aspects of inner-Korean relations examined from a German viewpoint. Working Papers on East Asian Studies 83, IN-EAST, University of Duisburg-Essen
  Horak, Sven
  
• (2010): Between Dependency and Autonomy - Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Local Chinese Governments. In: Journal of Current Chinese Affair [China aktuell] 1,37-71
  Lee, Chun-Yi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/186810261003900103)
• (2010): Can religion give impetus for change in North Korea? In: Journal of Religious Culture 134, 1-5
  Horak, Sven
  
• (2010): Facing the ‘dark side’ of deregulation? The politics of two-tier labour markets in Germany and Japan after the global financial crisis. In: Social Policy Review 22, 151-176
  Heinrich, Steffen
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qgsrq.12)
• (2010): People’s Republic of China - Hong Kong - Taiwan. In: The Annual Register 2010: 333-343
  Lee, Chun-Yi
  
• (2010): Phases of the relationship between East Germany and North Korea after WWIl. In: North Korean Review 6, 100-107
  Horak, Sven
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3172/nkr.6.1.100)
• (2010): Protecting the Right to Live Peacefully: A Report from Takae, Okinawa. In: Global Change, Peace & Security 22: 377-383
  Ogawa, Akihiro and Yasushi Ikeo
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2010.510273)
• (2010): Regulating Migration. A Selection of Recent Policy Documents. In: Berliner Chinahefte 38, 124-150
  Schnack, Hans-Christian and Yuan Yuan
  
• (2010): Schulbildung für Migrantenkinder in der VR China. Zwischen staatlicher Ausgrenzung und privaten Alternativen. Berlin: LIT
  Schnack, Hans-Christian
  
• (2011): Blockade durch Misstrauen: Das Fukushima- Krisenmanagement der Demokratischen Partei Japans. [Paralyzing Mistrust: The DPJ’s Fukushima Crisis Management] In: Welttrends 80, 49-58
  Lukner Kerstin and Alexandra Sakaki
  
• (2011): Challenges to system stability in North Korea. In: Journal of Asian Public Policy 4, 119-125
  Horak, Sven
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2011.574965)
• (2011): Civil Society: Past, Present, and Future. In: Kingston, Jeff (ed.): Critical Readings on Japan. London / New York: Routledge
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  
• (2011): Conference Report of the Junior-Conferenee-of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA Nachwuchstagung): Asien in Bewegung - Politischer, kultureller und gesellschaftlicher Wandel einer Weltregion (Asia on the Move - Political, Cultural and Social Change of a World Region). In: Asien 2011, 120, 103-105
  Müller, Armin
  
• (2011): Enabling Cultural Diplomacy Through Sport Sponsoring: The case of North Korea. In: Case Studies in Cultural Diplomacy (Institute for Cultural Diplomacy), 1-11
  Horak, Sven
  
• (2011): EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement: An elusive goal? In: German Foreign Policy in Focus, 507
  Sakaki, Alexandra
  
• (2011): Facilitating Self-Regulated Learning: An Exploratory Case of Teaching a University Course on Japanese Society. In: International Journal of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education 23, 166-174
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  
• (2011): Fukushima. Vom Erdbeben zur atomaren Katastrophe. München: C.H. Beck
  Coulmas, Florian and Judith Stalpers
  
• (2011): Institutional Variety in East Asia. Formal and informal patterns of coordination. (New Horizons in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics series edited by Geoff Hodgson). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
  Pascha, Werner, Cornelia Storz, Markus Taube (eds.)
  
• (2011): Peace, a Contested Identity: Japan's Constitutional Revision and Grassroots Peace Movements. In: Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research 36, 373- 399
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0130.2011.00703.x)
• (2011): Peace, a Contested Identity: Japan’s Constitutional Revision and Grassroots Peace Movements. In: Kingston, Jeff (ed.): Critical Readings on Contemporary Japanese Politics. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2011; Boston: Brill Academic Publishers: 2012
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  
• (2011): Perspectives of democratisation in North Korea in the style of Arabia, (in German) In: Beiträge zur Internationalen Politik und Sicherheit 1,27-40
  Horak, Sven and Restel, Katja
  
• (2011): Sowing the Seeds of Profit: China's Rural Financial Market is the Next Big Thing. In: BusinessForum China 1, 54-57
  Prior, Ann-Kathrin
  
• (2011): Taiwanese Businesses or Chinese Security Asset: A Changing Pattern of Interaction between Taiwanese Business and Chinese Governments. London: Routledge
  Lee, Chun-Yi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203181911)
• (2011): The influence of relation-based networks on business activities in Korea (in German). Japanese-German Center Berlin, Conference Vol. 61: 53-60
  Horak, Sven
  
• (2011): The New Prominence of the Civil Sector in Japan. In: Theodore. C. Bestor, Victoria Bestor and Akiko Yamagata (eds.): Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society, 186-197. London, New York: Routledge
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203818459.ch15)
• (2011): The Political Views of Chinese Businessmen in China: Blue, Green, or Red? In: Cal Clark (ed.): The Changing Dynamics of the Relations among China, Taiwan, and the United States, 191-213. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  Lee, Chun-Yi
  
• (2012): A Dual-track Reform of China’s Banking System in the 1980s and its Consequences on the Direction of Financial Flows - Insight from China’s Countryside. In: EABH Bulletin 1, 31-40
  Prior, Ann-Kathrin
  
• (2012): A Model of Chinese Central Government: the Role of Reciprocal Accountability. University of Milan-Bicocca working paper 223
  Li, Yuan and Mario Giili
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2291254)
• (2012): Citizenry Accountability in Autocracies. In: Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 18, 1-12
  Li, Yuan and Mario Gilli
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/peps-2012-0008)
• (2012): Citizenry Accountability in Autocracies: The Political Economy of Good Governance in China. NEPS Working Papers 3 (2012) and CERC Stockholm School of Economics Working Paper 23 (2012)
  Li, Yuan and Mario Giili
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/peps-2012-0008)
• (2012): Downward Accountability in Response of Collective Actions: The Political Economy of Public Goods Provision in China. Diskussionsbeiträge der Mercator School of Management 379
  Li, Yuan
  
• (2012): Global Goals versus Bilateral Barriers? The International Criminal Court in the Context of the US Relations with Germany and Japan. In: Japanese Journal of Political Science 13, 83-104
  Lukner, Kerstin
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1468109911000259)
• (2012): Japan and Germany as Regional Actors: Evaluating Change and Continuity after the Cold War, Politics and East Asia Series. London: Routledge
  Sakaki, Alexandra
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203104781)
• (2012): Japan and South Korea’s History Divide. In: Asia Pacific Memo
  Sakaki, Alexandra
  
• (2012): Japan-South Korea Textbook Talks: The Necessity of Political Leadership. In: Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific 85, 261-283
  Sakaki, Alexandra
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.5509/2012852263)
• (2012): Regime stability and leadership transition. In: Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs 12(1)
  Horak, Sven
  
• (2012): Welfare Governance in China. A Conceptual Discussion of Governing Public Social Policy Programs and the Applicability of the Concept to Modern China. In: Journal of Cambridge Studies 7, 54-72
  Müller, Armin and Matthias Stepan
  
• (2013): (郭建梅) Guo Jianmei: Kämpferin für die Frauenrechte. In: Gewalt gegen Frauen in Südostasien und China: Rechtslage, Umgang, Lösungsansätze, edited by Genia Findeisen and Kristina Großmann: 233–238. Berlin: Regiospectra Verlag
  Bräuer, Stephanie
  
• (2013): A new era for studies on cross-Strait relations: Introduction. In: China Information, 27 (1), 3-9
  Lee, Chun-Yi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203x12471606)
• (2013): Aktivismus gegen häusliche Gewalt in Peking, Volksrepublik China (VR China). In: Genia Findeisen, Kristina Großmann (eds.): Gewalt gegen Frauen in Südostasien und China: Rechtslage, Umgang, Lösungsansätze, 217-232. Berlin: Regiospectra Verlag
  Bräuer, Stephanie
  
• (2013): Business Risk and Ethics in Prospective Emerging Markets: The Case of Sports Sponsorship in North Korea. In: North Korean Review, 9, 18-28
  Horak, Sven
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3172/nkr.9.2.18)
• (2013): Demanding a Safer Tomorrow: Japan’s Anti-Nuclear Rallies in the Summer of 2012. In: Anthropology Today 291, 21-24
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12006)
• (2013): Evaluation Processes, Local Cadres’ Behaviour and Local Development Processes. In: Journal of Contemporary China, November 2013: 1048-1066
  Heberer, Thomas and Ren6 Trappel
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2013.795315)
• (2013): Guestworker: A Taxonomy. New Left Review 84, 84-102
  Surak, Kristin
  
• (2013): Introduction to the Special Issue: Japanese Crisis Management Amid Growing Complexity: In Search of New Approaches. Japanese Journal of Political Science 14(2), 155-176
  Sakaki, Alexandra and Kerstin Lukner
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1468109913000017)
• (2013): Japan's Crisis Management amid Growing Complexity. Special Issue of Japanese Journal of Political Science 14(2)
  Sakaki, Alexandra and Kerstin Lukner (Guest Editors)
  
• (2013): Lessons from Fukushima: An Assessment of the Investigations of the Nuclear Disaster. In: The Asia-Pacific Journal 11(19/2), 1-29
  Lukner, Kerstin and Alexandra Sakaki
  
• (2013): Patterns of dualisation. Coordinated capitalism and the politics of flexible labour markets in Germany and Japan 1990-2010. Heidelberg, Dissertation
  Heinrich, Steffen
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00016034)
• (2013): Risk Management by a Neoliberal State: Construction of New Knowledge through Lifelong Learning in Japan. In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 34, 132-144
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2012.698868)
• (2013): Social Dimensions of Changing Cross-Strait Relationship. In: Richard Weixing Hu: New Dynamics in Cross-Taiwan Straits Relations: How Far Can the Rapprochement Go?, 190-201. London: Routledge
  Lee, Chun-Yi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203068205-23)
• (2013): Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place; Restoring Economic Growth in South Korea by Building a Domestic Green Technology Industry? In: Journal of International Business Education 8, 5-26
  Horak, Sven, Sabine Bacouel-Jentjens, and Inga Beyler
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526461780)
• (2013): Young precariat at the forefront: anti-nuclear rallies in post-Fukushima Japan. In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 14(2), 317-326
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2013.769760)
• (2013): Young precariat at the forefront; anti-nuclear rallies in post-Fukushima Japan. In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 14, 317-326
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2013.769760)
• (2014) Downward Accountability in Response to Collective Actions: The Political Economy of Public Goods Provision in China. In: The Economics of Transition, 22(1), 69-103
  Yuan Li
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12033)
• (2014): A Fulfilling Case of Action Research in Japan. My 10-Year Engagement in a Tokyo Lifelong Learning Group. In: Andrea von Hülsen-Esch / Miriam Seidler / Christian Tagsold (eds.): Methoden der Alter(n)sforschung. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 127-142
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839425206.127)
• (2014): Antecedents and characteristics of informal relation-based networks in Korea: Yongo, Yonjul and Inmaek. In: Asia Pacific Business Review, 20, 78-108
  Horak, Sven
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2013.791567)
• (2014): Becoming Public: Anti-Domestic Violence (ADV) Activism as a Public Event. In: China Development Brief, 29.08.2014
  Bräuer, Stephanie
  
• (2014): Becoming Urban: State and Migration in Contemporary China. Kassel: Kassel University Press
  Luo, Rumin
  
• (2014): China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical System - The National Policy Process and Local Strategic Agency. PhD thesis. University of Duisburg-Essen
  Müller, Armin
  
• (2014): From being privileged to being localized? Taiwanese businessmen in China. In: Chiu K.-F.; Fell, D. and Lin, P. (eds.): Migration to and from Taiwan Strait, 57-72. London: Routledge
  Lee, Chun-Yi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203076866-12)
• (2014): Health Risks and Responses in Asia. In: Rosemary Foot, Saadia Pekkanen, and John Ravenhill (eds.): Oxford Handbook on the International Relations of Asia, 606-621. Oxford University Press: London
  Lukner, Kerstin
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199916245.013.0031)
• (2014): Injured but not entitled for legal insurance compensation: Ornamental institutions and migrant workers’ informal channels in China. In: Social Policy & Administration 48(7); 905-922
  Sun, Li and Liu, Tao
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12077)
• (2014): Japan: Politisches System und politischer Wandel. In: C. Derichs and T. Heberer (eds.): Die politischen Systeme Ostasiens - Eine Einführung, 255-353. Wiesbaden: Springer (expanded and updated 3rd edition)
  Lukner, Kerstin und Claudia Derichs
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-01988-4_5)
• (2014): Learning from Taiwan’s Lesson? The Comparison of Changes and Con tinuity of Labour Policies in Taiwan and China. In: Journal of Current Chinese Affair (China aktuell), 3,45-71
  Lee, Chun-Yi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/186810261404300303)
• (2014): The right to evacuation: the self-determined future of post-Fukushima Japan. In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 15(4), 648-658
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2014.977516)
• (2015): ... (An Introduction to the ICRC Archives in Geneva). (Red Cross Movement Research), 1/2015
  Shpakovskaya, Anna
  
• (2015): Cognitive skills and confidence: Interrelations with overestimation, overplacement and overprecision. In: Bulletin of Economic Research 2015
  Duttle, Kai
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12069)
• (2015): Complexity aversion: Influences of cognitive abilities, culture and system of thought. In: Economics Bulletin, 35(2), 846-865
  Duttle, Kai and Inukai, K.
  
• (2015): Complexity aversion; Influences of cognitive abilities, culture and system of thought. In: Economics Bulletin, 35(2), 846-865
  Duttle, Kai and Keigo Inukai
  
• (2015): Default or Reactance? Identity Priming Effects on Overconfidence in Germany and Japan. Working Papers on East Asian Studies 103, IN-EAST, University of Duisburg-Essen
  Duttle, Kai and Tatsuhiro Shichijo
  
• (2015): Disentangling Two Causes of Biased Probability Judgment: Cognitive Skills & Perception of Randomness. In: Ruhr Economic Papers 568
  Duttle, Kai
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2706423)
• (2015): Employment Institutions and Social Economic Risk-Shifting in Taiwan. PhD thesis. University of Duisburg-Essen
  Wang, Chih-Chieh
  
• (2015): Flexibiliät und Beschäftigungswandel. Weinheim und Basel: Beltz Juventa
  Apitzsch, Birgit, Karen Shire, Steffen Heinrich, Hannelore Mottweiler and Markus Tünte
  
• (2015): From Tokyo to The Hague: War Crime Tribunals and (Shifting?) Memory Politics in Japan. In: Japan Forum, 27:3, 321-344
  Lukner, Kerstin
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2015.1042013)
• (2015): Global Social Protections: Setting the Agenda. EDI Working Paper RSCAS 2015/78. Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2015/78
  Levitt, Peggy: Lloyd, Charlotte'; Müller, Armin; and Viterna, Jocelyn
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2682423)
• (2015): Growing or Perishing? The Development of Labour NGOs. In: A. Fulda (ed.): Civil Society Contributions to Policy Innovation in the PR China, 125-150. Basingstoke: Palgrave and Macmillan
  Lee, Chun-Yi
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137518644_5)
• (2015): Innovation und Institutioneller Wandet im Gesundheitswesen der VR China (Innovation and Institutional Change in the Healthcare System of the PRC). 10. Schwerpunktausgabe: Innovation in China, ITB Infoservice 08/2015
  Müller, Armin
  
• (2015): Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan. Risk, Community, and Knowledge. Albany: SUNY Press
  Ogawa, Akihiro
  
• (2015): Modernisation, Value Change, and Gender inequality in Japan: Japanese Exceptionalism or Theoretical Inadequacy?. In: Danilova, Elena et al. (eds.): Multi-faced Transformations: Challenges and Studies, 181-204. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  Wang, Zi
  
• (2015): Review of Boy Lüthje, Siqi Luo und Hao Zhang: Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl - Regimes of Production and Industrial Relations in China. Frankfurt, Campus, 2013. In: Asien 137, 137-138
  Müller, Armin
  
• (2015): The Making of Minority Language Policies in Chinese Schools - Street-level Bureaucracy and Curriculum Decisions in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. PhD thesis. University of Duisburg-Essen
  Schnack, Hans-Christian
  
• (2015): When Network doesn’t Work: Strangers’ Encounter and Awkwardness in Urban China. In: Urbanities Journal, 5(1), 38-52
  Luo, Rumin
  
• (2015); Konferenzbericht VSJF-Jahrestagung 2012: Japan und Südostasien - Spielarten einer intraregionalen Beziehung. In: Asien, 127(1), 99- 101
  Jentzsch, Hanno and Peter Mühleder
  
• (2016) The “Local” in Processes of Endogenous Institutional Change - Informal Village Institutions in Japan’s Changing Agncultural Support and Protection Regime. PhD thesis. University of Duisburg Essen
  Jentzsch, Hanno
  
• (2016): China’s New Public Health Insurance. Challenges to Health Reforms and the New Rural Cooperative Medical System. Routledge: Oxon
  Müller, Armin
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624792)
• (2016): China’s Reforms and the Significance of Precarity. In: Stephan Köhn and Monika Unkel (eds.): Prekarisierungsgesellschaften in Ostasien? Aspekte der sozialen Ungleichheit In China und Japan. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 37-59
  Christiansen, Flemming
  
• (2016): Contemporary Japan, 28(2)
  Heinrich, Steffen and Tobias Söldner (eds.)
  
• (2016): Cosmopolitan Publics in Isolation: The Japanese Global Sixties and Its Impact on Social Change (Ph.D. Dissertation). ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  Takata, Kei
  
• (2016): Does employment dualisation lead to political polarisation? Assessing the impact of labour market inequalities on political discourse in Japan. In: Chiavacchi, David and Carola Hommerich (eds.): Social inequality in post-growth Japan. Transformation during economic and demographic stagnation, 73-87. London: Routledge
  Heinrich, Steffen
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315629872-15)
• (2016): E-Health in Rural China: Information Technology and Network-based Management in the New Rural Cooperative Medical System. In: Schlaeger, Jesper (ed.): Conference Proceedings: E-Govemance in Asia: Strengthening Transparency and Accountability? Lund University - Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies
  Müller, Armin
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2725860)
• (2016): From Tokyo to The Hague: War Crime Tribunals and (Shifting?) Memory Politics in Japan. In: Glenn Hook (Hg.): Excavating the Power of Memory in Japan, 26-49. London and New York: Routledge
  Lukner, Kerstin
  
• (2016): Germany versus China: How does social distance influence public good behavior? In: Mind & Society, June 2016, Vol. 15, Issue 1, 33-52
  Vu, Dung
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-015-0163-2)
• (2016): Hukou and Health Insurance Coverage for Migrant Workers: The Interdependence between the New Rural Cooperative Medical System and Household Registration in China. In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2016, 45(2), 53-82
  Müller, Armin
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/186810261604500203)
• (2016): Japan's South Korea predicament. In: International Affairs, 94(4), 735-754
  Sakaki, Alexandra and Junya Nishino
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiy029)
• (2016): Momentum, Overconfidence and Irrationality - An Experimental Study of Behavioral Puzzles in Japan. PhD thesis. University of Duisburg-Essen
  Duttle, Kai
  
• (2016): New Types of Financial Institutions in China. PhD thesis. University of Duisburg-Essen
  Prior, Ann-Kathrin
  
• (2016): Premium Collection and the Problem of Voluntary Enrollment in China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS). In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 45(1), 11-41
  Müller, Armin
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/186810261604500103)
• (2016): Private guarantees and relational networks. A micro-level study of small business lending transaction China. Schriften zur Wirtschaft Asiens Band 14. Marburg: Metropolis
  Prior, Ann-Kathrin
  
• (2016): Same but different? Similarities and fundamental differences of informal social networks in China (guanxi) and Korea (yongo). In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 33 (3), 595-616
  Horak, Sven and Markus Taube
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-015-9452-x)
• (2016): Should I Stay or Should I Go? Einflüsse auf den Verbleib von eingewanderten Pflegekräften aus der VR China in der BRD (Should I Stay or Should I Go? Influences on the Decisions of Nurses from the PRC to Remain in Germany). Report for SinoCura
  Müller, Armin
  
• (2016): Testing the Spaces of Discretion: School Personnel as Implementers of Minority-Language Policy in China. In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 45(1), 43-74
  Schnack, Hans-Christian
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/186810261604500104)
• (2016): The Emergence of Informal Institutions among Internal Migrants in Urban China. In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 45(2), 83-112
  Luo, Rumin
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/186810261604500204)
• (2016): The Emergence of Informal Institutions among Internal Migrants in Urban China. In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 45, 2, 83-112
  Luo, Rumin
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/186810261604500204)
• (2016): The Institutional Response to Infectious Diseases in Asia. In: Saadia Pekkanen (ed.): Asian Designs: Governance in the World Order, London and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 180-199
  Lukner, Kerstin
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501706226)
• (2016): The Margins and the Marginalised: Social Policy, Labour Migration, and Ethnie Identity at the Peripheries of Chinese Society (Introduction). In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 45(2), 3-27
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