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Krise und Risiko.
China und der Umgang mit Unwägbarkeit
In times of global pandemics, unexpected wars, and increasing social divisions, many societies are more aware of “crisis” than ever before in the 21st century. Political, social, and cultural certainties that had remained unquestioned for decades have clearly begun to falter. Not only in German-speaking places and in Europe, this is forcing a renegotiation of how to deal with imponderabilities, not least in relation to China.
The volume Krise und Risiko (Crisis and Risk) presents selected contributions to the XXXIst annual Conference of the German Association of Chinese Studies (DVCS), which was organized in November 2020 by the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at University of Zurich and held virtually due to the Covid19 pandemic. The eleven contributions in the volume cover a wide range of topics, from coping strategies during the coronavirus pandemic in the People's Republic of China in 2020 to disaster motifs in popular narrative literature of the Ming period to the topos of suicide as a protest used as a putative strategy for overcoming personal crises in ancient philosophical texts. They not only shed light on different periods, geographical and social spheres in China, but also open up a broad panorama of methodological approaches, written and oral sources, and analyze the related social, artistic, and religious practices and cultures of knowledge.
