Articles

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 May Fourth Crackdown: the Chengdu Anti-PX Demonstration

Sabri Coskun is a writer and student who spends several months every year in Chengdu, Sichuan provin…

Interviews

Zeng Jinyan

An Interview with Zeng Jinyan 曾金燕

The China Story Journal would like to thank Zeng Jinyan for sharing her insights on life in Chin…
A view of Zhengyang Men 正阳门 and Qian Men 前门 north to Tiananmen, from Capital M

The China Story and the Chinese Net at Capital M

On 8 March, the writer and rock musician Kaiser Kuo hosted a conversation at Capital M in Beijing wi…
Chinese mental health hospital

The 2012 Mental Health Law 精神卫生法 – An Interview with Guo Zhiyuan 郭志媛

How to treat the mentally ill in accordance with the law has been a longstanding issue in China. As …
Courtyard entrance inside the West Palace Gate of the Summer Palace 颐和园西宫门门内. Photograph by Geremie R. Barmé

Why the Manchus Matter – In Conversation with Mark Elliott

  Mark C. Elliott is the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History at H…

Translations

Can China Think Without America? 离开美国我们就无法思考吗?

Liu Qing 刘擎 Liu Qing is a prominent political scientist and historian, as well as being active in C…
Professor Yu Jianrong

China's Rigid Stability – Yu Jianrong 于建嵘 analyses a predicament

In November 2012, Foreign Policy named Yu Jianrong 于建嵘 one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers and descri…
Ambassador FitzGerald meets Premier Zhou Enlai, May 1973. Photograph courtesy of Stephen FitzGerald

A Chinese Stretch of the Imagination 舒展的想象力 — 澳大利亚与中国已届四十年

费思棻 Stephen FitzGerald A Chinese translation of a CIW Oration prepared on behalf of the Australia…
An image circulating on the Chinese Internet showing Yuan Peng's "New Five Black Categories" represented by the mascots of the Beijing Olympics, the Five Fuwa  福娃 or Friendlies.

The Five Vermin 五蠹 Threatening China

On 31 July 2012, the overseas edition of People’s Daily ran an analysis of China’s three- to five-ye…

Shorts

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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…
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Australia-China Agenda 2013, a new project

The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), which created and curates The China Story Project…
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China Rhodes: Schwarzman at Tsinghua

Ryan Manuel is Asian Century Graduate Fellow at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research in the Cr…
A view of Zhengyang Men 正阳门 and Qian Men 前门 north to Tiananmen, from Capital M

The China Story and the Chinese Net at Capital M

On 8 March, the writer and rock musician Kaiser Kuo hosted a conversation at Capital M in Beijing wi…