Read new articles on the URPP Asia and Europe, its members and guests.

• «Indische Götter und ein chinesischer Philosoph» UZH News reports on the panel discussion «Talk im Turm» of March 18, 2013. Angelika Malinar, Professor of Indian Studies and Academic Director of the URPP Asia and Europe, and Ralph Weber, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the URPP Asia and Europe, comment on immaterial values in India and China.
  In: UZH News, March 26, 2013
• «Der erste Kaiser von China und seine Terrakotta-Armee» In an interview with Swiss television, Wolfgang Behr, Professor of Chinese Studies and Academic Director of the URPP Asia and Europe, speaks about the importance of the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi.
  Kulturplatz, 13. März 2013, 22:20 Uhr (Livestream)
• «Das Comeback des Konfuzius» Ralph Weber, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the URPP Asia and Europe, analyses the actual political situation in China.
  In: magazin. Die Zeitschrift der Universität Zürich, no. 1, Februay 2013, p. 29–31 (PDF, 292 KB)
• «Wo Götter Ferien machen» Angelika Malinar, Professor of Indian Studies and Academic Director of the URPP Asia and Europe reports on Hinduism and Hinduist monasteries so far overlooked by academic research.
  In: magazin. Die Zeitschrift der Universität Zürich, no. 1, Februay 2013, p. 32–34 (PDF, 301 KB)
• «‹Westfalen ticken wie Chinesen›» In an interview, Mareile Flitsch, Director of the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich and participating professor at the URPP Asia and Europe, speaks about changes in the ethnographical research practice and about her own experiences during her field research in China.
  In: magazin. Die Zeitschrift der Universität Zürich, no. 1, Februay 2013, p. 44–47 (PDF, 1074 KB)
• «Giftiges Heilmittel» Dagmar Wujastyk, Postdoc at the URPP Asia and Europe , reports on the use of quicksilver in medicine, especially in the Indian medicine from the 7^th century to the present.
  In: UZH News, February 21, 2013
• «Language on the Tip of Everybody’s Tongue» In the newspaper «China Daily» Ralph Weber, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the URPP Asia and Europe, provides some reasons for the boom the Chinese language is enjoying at the moment.
  In: China Daily, January 25, 2013 (PDF, 381 KB)
• «Tibet hat nicht auf den Kontakt mit Europäern gewartet» Christoph Uehlinger, Professor of Religious Studies, is interviewed on the symposium «Concepts of religion between Asia and Europe».
  In: UZH News, October 31, 2012 (PDF, 508 KB)

• «Asiatischer Protest» Adrian Ritter reports on the festive event at the URPP Asia and Europe on October 9, 2012.
  In: UZH News, October 15, 2012 (PDF, 1137 KB)
• «Kopflos drauflosschreiben» Claudio Zemp reports on techniques of ideation in literature, the research area of Sandro Zanetti, assistant professor of Comparative Literature and tutor at the URPP Asia and Europe.
  In: magazin. Die Zeitschrift der Universität Zürich, No 3, September 2012, pp. 33 f. (PDF, 246 KB)
• «Erst die Familie, dann der Staat»: Dominik Linggi, former doctoral student at the URPP Asia and Europe, is interviewed by Sascha Renner on trust in China.
  In: UZH News, April 17, 2012 (PDF, 656 KB)
• Wie weiter nach Fukushima? David Werner reports on the panel discussion «Ein Jahr nach Fukushima – Die Debatte zu Atomenergie in Asien und Europa», organized by the URPP Asia and Europe and carried out on March 13, 2012.
  In: UZH News, March 16, 2012 (PDF, 869 KB)
• Fukushima hat den Kaiserkult noch verstärkt: Jun'ichi Isomae, visiting scholar at the URPP Asia and Europe during the fall semester 2011, answers questions about Shinto and Imperial cult in Japan (interviewed by Michael Meier).
  In: Tages-Anzeiger, January 25, 2012, p. 29 (PDF, 84 KB)

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