Dr. Qian Zhao

Qian ZHAO is postdoctoral researcher at Universität Erfurt since 2022.

She did her undergraduate studies in Finance and economics at Wuhan University and master at Lille 2 University of Health and Law in France. She completed her PhD at Max Weber Kolleg, Universität Erfurt.

Her research fields include modern business ethics in China, moral/cultural background study, Chinese institutional economics development study, Chinese economic thoughts and East Asia’s Conceptions of Economic Order and Market. She has collaborated actively with researchers in disciplines of economics, sociology and history.

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Activities

Publications

  • Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten, Zhao, Qian (eds.) (2024): East Asian Ethical Life and Socio-Economic Transformation in the Twenty-First Century. The Ethical Sources of the Entrepreneurial Renewal of Companies and Communities, Routledge. (forth.)
  • Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten, Zhao, Qian (2023): “The Cultural Meaning of ‘Market’ in China and the Western tradition: Worlds Apart?”, In: Hollstein, Bettina; Rosa, Hartmut; Rüpke, Jörg (eds.) (2023), The Study of our Relationship to the World, Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus Verlag.
  • Zhao, Qian (2023): “To Meet Global Challenges: Ethical Resources, Culture, Communities, and Enterprises Book Symposium on “East Asian Ethical Life and Economy in the 21st Century””, n: ZFWU, Journal for Business, Economics and Ethics, 24 (03).
  • Zhao, Qian (2021): The Evolution of Modern Chinese Business Ethics in Reform China, PhD Dissertation, Open Access: https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00055903/zhao.pdf

Subprojects

C01 Hybrid ownership structures in state capitalism: Ownership-based society, socio-economic differentiation and Governmentality analysed through the example of Shenzhen, China

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