Sabbatical Lutgard Lams: A New Balance between In- and Output

I would like to create time and space to focus on the rework of my dissertation on the 1997 Chinese and Taiwanese media coverage Hong Kong transfer. Due to circumstances this assignment was postponed. It would give me great satisfaction if I can still rework the manuscript and supplement for a book publication in 2022, 25 years after the transfer. This is one rewriting a bulky thesis with a reduction of each chapter and immediately also ample rework of a wealth of literature published since I obtained my doctorate in 2004. At the time, little research was done on issues such as nationalism and identity in the Chinese region and  also researching ideology in the Taiwanese media was unexplored territory. In the meantime, a proliferation of international research in this field, which must of course be the case, will be reviewed and integrated. I also want to report on recent events and link Hong Kong to the insights from the older manuscript about it at the time proposed political governance system ("one country, two systems"). To make this one to be able to finish successfully I need oxygen to separate myself from the others research projects, teaching assignment and guidance of the numerous to do better master's theses that often cross my research plans focus on this task. I would do part of the rebuilding activity at home, but also plan to acquire input during a research stay at Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, where I can get inspired by colleagues from the Graduate Institute of Political Science and also hope to make new contacts. This residence could continue at the end of 2020, if the pending application for a new one research project with colleagues from the same team is awarded funding.