The topic of the second issue of "Cultural Relativity" is "social governance".
Humans are social animals, and as long as people are together they need some kind of organization and rules to achieve common interests.
The word "governance" in English means helm in ancient Greek, which means management and control.
Countries have evolved different social governance models in the long history, and they have all taken a big test in this pandemic that has swept the world.
Wear a mask or not?
Vaccination or not?
Seems to be the source of people's quarrel.
This makes us wonder, in terms of social governance, are closure and openness, freedom and order an either-or multiple-choice question?
If a similar outbreak occurs again in the future, even if we are almost certain, similar crises will occur, will we perform a little better?
In this episode, we have invited four Chinese and foreign guests from China, the United States, and Israel to discuss in depth what is good governance?
In the face of a "risk society" where uncertainty is increasingly the norm, how can Chinese and foreign social governance traditions better communicate and learn from each other?
Guests of this issue:
Zhu Suli: Professor of Peking University Law School, author of "How the System Is Formed" and other works
Pan Wei: Professor of the School of International Relations, Peking University, Director of the Center for China and the World Studies, Peking University
You Rui: Professor of Sinology at the Hebrew University of Israel, famous Sinologist, author of "The Origin of the Chinese Empire", etc.
Andreas Wimmer: Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy at Columbia University, author of Nation Building, etc.
Responsible editor: [Ji Xiang]