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DNA sculpture at China Science & Technology Museum, Beijing. Source: by Mitch Altman (via Flickr.com, CC-Lizenz (CC-BY-SA 2.0)), 2011.

Lise Meitner Research Group

China in the Global System of Science

The Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science” explores social structures of science and scholarship in contemporary China and the relationships between societal norms and values, the political regime, and the country’s ambition to become a constitutive and dominating part of world science. Researchers combine methods from the social sciences, area studies, and other disciplines to investigate China’s science policy and governance, the development of scientific disciplines and epistemic communities, public communication of science and institutional features of international academic cooperation. In a general and comparative perspective, the group’s work contributes to scholarship on the dynamics of global structures of scientific knowledge production and their local varieties.

Projects

Science and Political Regimes
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Popular Science Representations of AI Research
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The Evolution of China’s Scientific Literacy Surveys
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Publications

Observations: Short Papers on Science & Society in China & the World

Events

Taming the Artificial, Ordering the Social: Divergence and Convergence in Emerging AI Governance Regimes in China, Germany/the EU and the US

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News & Press

Research Group "China in the Global System of Science" among the “Best Research Environments 2024"

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Anna Lisa Ahlers quoted in Der Spiegel on China and its rise in the global system of science

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Andrea Braun Střelcová quoted in Nature on research cooperation in and with China

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