Dec 30, 2012

How the world didn't end this time

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  Did you really expect the world to end on 21 December, 2012? Again? Numerous times before has the end of the world been anticipated i...
Dec 25, 2012

Film review "The Ides of March"

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It may occur a bit contradictory that I don't have a lot to say about this movie, because in contrast to Law Abiding Citizen (see b...

Film review "Law abiding citizen"

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This purports to be a movie with a message. And, honestly, it could have been quite good. For a third of its total length, it sticks ...

法律懲罰還是一般的教育，哪種對社會穩定比較有作用？ An opinion piece

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by Jacob Tischer, Xiamen （ 2012 年 10 月 23 日 - 31 日， 廈門 ） (Note: I wrote this article in Xiamen as part of a home assignment in my Chinese...
Dec 21, 2012

法律惩罚还是一般的教育，哪种对社会稳定比较有作用？ An opinion piece

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by Jacob Tischer, Xiamen （ 2012 年 10 月 23 日 - 31 日，厦门） (Note: I wrote this article in Xiamen as part of a home assignment in my Chinese ...
May 4, 2012

Orphan of Asia - Taiwan and the Impossibility of the Taiwanese

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Jacob Tischer, Student at Departments of Sinology and on Religious Studies,  Leipzig University, Visiting Research Associate at the Institu...
Mar 30, 2011

The state of revolution - rising civil societies and how the concurrent system of power is unfit to deal with them

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Conventional politics (World Economic Forum) is unfit to deal with the current regime changes in the middle East, because it is inherently...
Feb 23, 2011

The "Internet Revolutions" and the Possibility of a Different Kind of "Revolution" in China?

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These thoughts originate in an interesting blog post by Alex Pasternack on the Twitter-generated "Jasmine Revolution" (or not?) ...
Feb 20, 2011

Journal Article on Taiwan Identity

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(a shorter version of this article was published in Powision 9 "Identitäten" ("identities"), 2010, political science ma...