September 27–29, scholars from Europe, North America, and Asia convened at Studienhaus Wiesneck near Freiburg to discuss land use, agrarian change, urbanization and state-society relations in a modernizing Chinese countryside. This years workshop, organized by René Trappel, Elena Meyer-Clement, and Jesper Zeuthen, consisted of paper presentations and a final steering discussion to organize future work and plan upcoming events.
Participants included John Donaldson (Singapore Management University), Burak Gürel (Koç University), Christopher Heurlin (Bowdoin College), Karita Kan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Kyonghee Lee (University of Heidelberg), Kristen Looney (Georgetown University), Elena Meyer-Clement (Freie Universität Berlin), René Trappel (University of Freiburg), and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen (Aalborg University).
Photo credit: Daniel Kroth
A report on the workshop is published in ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, no. 154/155, 2020.
The next workshop will take place in September 2022.