Director Dagmar Schäfer is mentioned in a Mirage News article about the 50 years of cooperation between the Max Planck Society (MPG) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). It mentions the workshop Cosmology in a Living World: Knowledge Regarding Environment and Life in Late Imperial China that was part of the academic series of events celebrating the 50th anniversary and served as an introduction to a Max Planck Partner Group based at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, titled “Daily Practices of Cosmological Knowledge in Late Imperial China (1368–1911).”