A pre-release of the essay "The recent controversy about the state and future of German China research - a preliminary assessment" ("Die jüngste Kontroverse um Zustand und Zukunft der deutschen Chinaforschung – eine vorläufige Bilanz") by Gunter Schubert and Björn Alpermann, soon to be published in the journal ASIEN 162/163, is already accessible online now. Read the article here [in German]