Prof. Gunter Schubert
Joint project with the Department of Sociology, Shanghai-University, and the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi-University, Taibei, sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taiwan
This project aims as much at tracing the political thinking and related economic behaviour of Taiwanese businessmen on the Chinese mainland as at investigating the social integration of long-time Taiwanese residents into Chinese society. Extensive qualitative interviewing in the Shanghai area and Guangdong province will be undertaken during 2006-07 with the participation of German, Chinese and Taiwanese researchers, presenting the first attempt of this kind to understand one of the allegedly most important social groups influencing cross-strait relations.
Project duration: January 2006 – December 2010
