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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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Mission-Oriented R&D Organizations
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Publications

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

Events

Expertise and Environment: Reckoning with Scientific Authority in an Anthropogenic Age

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Beyond “Red and Expert”: The Party’s Vision for Scientists in Contemporary China

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China in Global Science: An Interim Stocktaking

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News & Press

Andrea Braun Střelcová quoted in Nature on China, science policy, and research collaboration

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Erik Baark quoted in Nature on scientific development in China's cities

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Visiting Scholar Erik Baark in ThinkChina on China's centralised reform strategy

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