Journal

Making Rural China Urban
The Chinese government's plans to move some 250 million rural residents into new towns and cities ar…
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…

Foreign Affairs Reaches Out to the Academy
The following essay was written in (rather dyspeptic) response to recent efforts by the Australian D…

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

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…

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






