China's New Role in the International Community Challenges and Expectations for the 21st Century: Transactions of the Interdisciplinary Roundtable ... the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies

by Hans-Dieter Assmann (Editor), Karin Moser V Filseck (Editor)

The objective of the roundtable held at the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies (SIAS) in June 2004 was to discuss from a multi-disciplinary perspective the role China plays today in the international community. Under this headline experts from China, Germany and the U.S. gave their presentations in six political science, religion/ethics, law studies, economics, history of science & technology, and literature. The discussion of the papers demonstrated very clearly the high importance of communication and interchange between different disciplines and scholars of different countries in order to open up new ways of thinking and to cross borders, also between sciences and humanities. This advanced academic meeting was kindly supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

259 pages, Paperback

First published August 22, 2005