Yearbook 2017: Prosperity
Feasting on Donkey Skin
FOR ALMOST TWO millennia, donkey hide glue (colla corii asini) has been part of the Chinese apotheca…
Chapter 3 - North Korea — A Year of Crisis
ON 3 SEPTEMBER 2017, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) conducted its sixth…
Ode to Joy
IN THE SEASON TWO FINALE of the smash-hit sitcom Ode to Joy 欢乐颂, the character Fan Shengmei 樊胜美,…
Criminal Villages and Roving Crime
XI JINPING TIME AND AGAIN stresses that the Chinese Dream is the dream of the ‘old one hundred s…
Thinking China
Sima Nan (司马南)
We thank Emile Dirks for this contribution. Emile is a PhD student in Political Science at the Unive…
Steven NS Cheung 张五常
Steven Ng-Sheong Cheung 张五常 is an internationally noted Hong Kong-born economist best known for his …
Reading into the Past
Chow Cheong-ling (Zhou Changling) 周長齡
This article is excerpted from Biographies of Prominent Chinese, published in Shanghai in c.1925.
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Li Po-kwai (Li Baokui) 李葆葵
This article is excerpted from Biographies of Prominent Chinese, published in Shanghai in c.1925.
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