The book with the title "NPO's in Germany" was published in December 2005 and successfully launched on December 25th in a ceremony at Qinghua University Beijing.

Though not entirely defined yet, Globalization has already become a reality for most of us. Meanwhile, growing income inequality, both within and between countries, is often blamed to be an outcome of Globalization with a rich and affluent minority being unified and integrated and a poor majority that lacks requisite skills and resources to profit from world markets being marginalized.

On the other hand, Globalization seems to give developing countries a better chance to question and overcome the colonial history of long established divides between north and south. The case of China seems to prove the case, and its integration into the world markets seems to have China done well.

From right-wing politicians in the North to left-wing popular movements in the South, the chasm between the hyper-globalists and anti-globalists is far from bridged. As the positions on both sides of the divide harden, the debate on globalization is getting further confounded. The globalization debate is still on and there are no signs of it getting resolved in the near future.

Questioning Globalization is the title of Kavaljit Singh's widely praised book on this major phenomena of the 21st century. It contains a critical analysis of accepted global development realities in the name of and according to the needs of the so-called globalization and gives inside knowledge about motivations and greater goals.

The Heinrich Boell Foundation invited the Indian author Kavaljit Singh to take part in the launch of his book "Questioning Globalization", that is now available in Chinese.The book launch was held at October 14 at Qinghua University Beijing.

After a short introduction by Mr. Guanghui Zhang, Advisor and Former Chairman of Board of Director, China Association for NGO Cooperation and Klaus Beck, Projekt Manager, HBF China, the author Kavaljit Singh presented and explained the content of his book to the audience. Afterwards In order to gain some insight knowledge about the issue in view of its relation to the debate in China, the author discussed several topics from his book with Chinese experts in the field.

Topics were:

1. Does Financial Globalization Stimulate Investment and Growth?

2. Global Rules on Investment: Rules for Whom?

3. Does Globalization Promote Democracy and Human Rights?

4. International Aid, IFIs and Good Governance: Whose Governance Matters?

5. Does Globalization Spell the End of Nation-State?

Bin Han, Secretary General of World Economy & Management Association, Professor and Executive Dean from Singapore Asia Economics Research Institute

Deqiang Han, Professor, Beijing University of Aeronautics Astronautics and author of the book "Collision: Globalization Trap and China's Real Choice"

Kavaljit Singh , Author of Questioning Globalization and founder-director of the Public Interest Research Centre, New Delhi

Paul Hsia, Former Executive of Citibank Asia, CEO of America International Education Foundation and America Huangzhijie Investment Group

and Jie Kuang, Director of the Ireland European Management Institute and the International Market research Centre 

Following the German - Chinese Symposia on Architecture and Urban Development, a series of publications on the subject have been published in  in print and electronically. Some of them are available here in both Chinese and German.