Publications

In the following you will find a selection of my publications:

Interviews:

Article: „Soziale Kontrolle 4.0? Chinas Social Credit
Systems” in Blättern für deutsche und internationale Politik. Translations followed into:

Book chapter on mass incidents in China and the governments handling of it: „Kick it Like China – Riots, Action, and Repression” in Rowman and Littlefield International’s „Riots and Militant Occupations”

My Magistra thesis „The External Harmonization of Interior Uprisings – ‚Harmonious Society‘ and ‚Mass Incidents‘ in China“ – on China’s „Harmonious Society“ Program:

While the number of mass incidents in the People’s Republic of China is continuously rising (in 2014 an average of 247 per day) the Communist Party of China proclaimed a “Socialist Harmonious Society” 社会主义和谐社会 as a social goal. The contradiction of a materialist-marxist party that does not call out for communism, but a “Harmonious Society” that is based on traditional Confucian principles led to this thesis. Are uprisings and riots reasons for the ideological change of the party? Is the return of Confucius and Mao both an attempt of legitimation and an ideological effort to get the Chinese people on board again? How is this related to the massive extension of special forces against the interior uprisings ? The following research question was defined to analyze: Is the Socialist Harmonious Society an attempt by the Communist Party to externally harmonize social unrest and expressions of dissent? Starting with the four central concepts of this academic field – “politics of reform and opening up” 改革开放 , “socialism with Chinese characteristics” 中国特色 社会主义, “mass incident” 群体性事件, and “counterinsurgency (COIN)”, S. Jäger’s Critical Discourse Analysis was used to analyze key speeches of Hu Jintao. Following this process the theoretic results were set in contrast to the practical handling of protests of a social group with very low social esteem: the migrant workers.