Time:2 December, 14:00 – 15:30 (CET)  21:00-22:30 (Beijing)

Place: Zoom

Registration:

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In this book launch, we offer interested readers a chance to hear the editors elaborate on their idea behind the book. The event will also feature presentations of select chapters by the respective authors. Following the presentations, there will be time for comments and questions from the audience. 

Although the rapid spread worldwide of the coronavirus in 2020 focused minds everywhere on the dangers of a global pandemic, other dangers facing the world have not diminished. Failure to resolve issues relating to the divided Korean peninsula is one of these. In East-West Reflections on Demonization: North Korea Now, China Next?, 18 engaged scholars from Asia, the United States and Europe share their insights and suggestions with concerned readers worldwide. They strive to get beyond the everyday rhetoric clouding the situation and address the demonization issue as a multidimensional problem, exploring its different aspects from Western and Eastern perspectives. However, North Korea is not the only country in the cross-hairs of heavy weight media organizations. The intensifying great power struggle between China and the United States is being played out on television, online and in the print media of both countries and beyond.East-West Reflections on Demonization: North Korea Now, China Next?, concludes by considering this developing conflict in which the two Koreas play a minor, almost bystander role. This collection certainly offers important insights to journalists, officials and decision-makers around the world.The book is available for purchase at NIAS Press（https://www.niaspress.dk/book/19873/）. 

14:00-14:05 Brief opening remarks

Marie Yoshida, ADI

14:05-14:20 A few words on the book by the editors

Geir Helgesen, Cross-Cultural Solutions, Formerly NIAS
Rachel Harrison, SOAS, Uni. of London

14.20-14:55 Presentation of individual chapters

Myungkoo Kang, Seoul National University
Gyuseog Han, Chonnam National University
Chunrong Liu, Fudan Centre
Daniel A Bell, Shandong University
James Wertsch, Washington University in St. Louis

14:55-15:00 Summing up

15:00-15:30 Comments and questions

Myungkoo Kang is Emeritus Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Seoul National University, ROK.

Gyuseog Han is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, ROK.
Chunrong Liu is Associate Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, PRC, and co-director of the Fudan-European Centre for China Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Daniel A. Bellis Professor and Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University, PRC.
Rachel Harrison is Professor of Thai Cultural Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK.
Geir Helgesen is cultural sociologist, retired director of NIAS, University of Copenhagen and head of the consulting company Cross-Cultural Solutions, Denmark.

James J. Wertsch is Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and of International and Area Studies, and Director Emeritus of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies; NIAS Press; ADI – Asian Dynamics Initiative; Fudan-European Centre for China Studies; and SOAS University of London.