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President of the Chinese Sociological Association, Professor LI Qiang, and His Wife’s Visit to the UK (20-25 July 2014)
On July 20, 2014, Professor LI Qiang (1950-2023), then Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University, traveled to the UK for a vacation with his wife, Zhang Hua . As a friend, I had arranged their 10-day itinerary in advance and accompanied them in London. Unfortunately, due to Mrs. Zhang...
Photo report: Max Weber and China conference was successfully held at SOAS, 2013
China, the West and the Future of Global Capitalism – or Not?
From a recent press release of SOAS, ‘the future of the global economic system depends on the West’s relations with China. A hundred years ago Max Weber, famous as a founder of modern Western social and political science, wrote a classic...
How do Migrants from the BRICS Countries Participate in Shaping the Global Society?
The international conference entitled ‘How do Migrants from the BRICS Countries Participate in Shaping the Global Society?’ was successfully held on the 2nd March 2013 at CLM.2.02 of LSE.
Professor Athar Hussain, Director of Asian Research Centre, LSE, opened the conference. Lord Michael Bates...
Chinese way of thinking and general social scientific methodologies in comparison
In 2011, Benti and Changwu: Dialogues on Methodology in Economics (Amazon Kindle version, see the middle image of the covers) by Justin Yifu Lin was published. The author is a Professor at Peking University and then Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank. The English version is a...
