Beijing Excavator by Lois Conner

Beijing by Lois Conner

Dali, Yunnan province by Lois Conner

Dali, Yunnan province by Lois Conner

Tiananmen, Beijing by Lois Conner

Tiananmen, Beijing by Lois Conner

Huairou, Penguin Park by Lois Conner

Huairou, Beijing by Lois Conner

Beijing Construction Site by Lois Conner

Beijing by Lois Conner

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New zone development (xinqu kaifa 新区开发) is a major strategy used by local governments to implement chengzhenhua. Generating land-related profits through expropriation and conversion of rural collective land is central to this mode of development.

Making Rural China Urban

The Chinese government's plans to move some 250 million rural residents into new towns and cities ar…
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Much Ado Over Small Islands: The Sino-Japanese Confrontation over Senkaku/Diaoyu

Since 2010, the China-Japan relationship has been rocked by tensions over the Senkaku 尖閣/Diaoyu 钓鱼 I…
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Foreign Affairs Reaches Out to the Academy

The following essay was written in (rather dyspeptic) response to recent efforts by the Australian D…
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A Call for Contributions: 'Australia, let's talk about China'

On 13 May, we launched a project titled Australia-China Agenda 2013. Now, the Australian Centre on C…

Thinking China

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Li Yinhe 李银河

Often described as ‘China’s first sexologist’, Li Yinhe 李银河 is a sociologist who is widely admired a…
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Shen Zhihua 沈志华

Shen Zhihua is an historian greatly admired in China as a pioneer of archival research on the Cold W…

Reading into the Past

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The Tea of Immortality (僊茗)

By J. Huston Edgar Some weeks ago I was in Ming Shan Hsien, a city about ten miles from Ya Ch…
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China Tea

Tea comes from China! This statement some of our readers may remember was one of many such tha…