Archiv für Januar 2014

Paradoxes of Prosperity in China’s New Capitalism

This article gives a broad characterization of China’s political economy, as well as specific aspects of its socio-economic instabilities. With a focus on China’s export-oriented industry sectors, concepts from comparative and international political economy are applied to show how the Chinese economy can be understood as a variegated form of state-permeated capitalism that at the same time is deeply integrated into world economic processes. The article goes on to portray the socio-economic dynamics, as well as the instabilities of China’s new capitalism, that are at the root of the state leadership’s attempts to turn away from a one-sided model of export and investment-driven growth. Thereby, a number of obstacles are revealed for the “rebalancing” of the economy: a continued dependence on exports, a lack of domestic consumer demand which impedes a significant “social” upgrading, the ongoing low-wage model for which there is no end in sight, the limits of the state’s steering capacity and the weaknesses of its fragmented, competition-driven structure.

Rebalancing China’s Emergent Capitalism: State Power, Economic Liberalization and Social Upgrading

Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2013: Rebalancing China’s Political Economy

Sarah and Her Sisters: Letters, Emotions, and Colonial Identities in the Early Modern Atlantic World

This article uses letters by indigenous converts to explore how early modern Moravian missions in the Atlantic imagined themselves as emotional communities. Moravian missions were the most successful Protestant mission enterprise in the Atlantic and e…

Restorationist Counter-Enlightenment: Thomas M’Crie on the Concept of Civil Liberty

Enlightenment notions for Counter-Enlightenment purposes have not to date been used to provide a comprehensive context for Scottish religious history-writing in the age of Counter-Revolution and Restoration. The Evangelical historian and divine Thomas…

Martin Luther in Nineteenth-Century France

French-language readers had little available about Martin Luther before the French Revolution. A few Catholic authors had written about him from a confessional perspective. At the beginning of the nineteenth century interest was aroused by an essay co…

Ecumenist and Controversialist: The Dual Legacy of Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) is often remembered for his ecumenical theology. Yet his relationships with other Christians of his time were marked by conflict, and every significant ecumenical connection he made was eventually broken of…

Magyar Lettre Internationale | 89 (2013)

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/magyarlettre/issue/2014-01-09.html

Kulturos barai | 12/2013

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/kulturos/issue/2014-01-09.html

Issue 6 | Focus – An Unusual Traveler: Ida Pfeiffers Visit to the Holy Land in 1842

Abstract
In 1842 the middle-aged Austrian Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) set out for the Holy Land. To counter protests from her family, horrified by her plan to travel alone, Pfeiffer, who became a well-respected travel writer, disguised this journey as a …

Issue 6 | Focus – „With Eyes towards Zion“: Visions of the Holy Land in Romanian …

 Abstract
This article analyses perceptions of the Holy Land through the pictorial representations of Jewish holy places in the Romanian Moldavia synagogues from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. These images implied the sanctity of the bibli…