Yearbook 2017: Prosperity
Chapter 5 - Precarious Wealth: The Search for Status and Security
IN JANUARY 2017, Chinese security agents entered Hong Kong’s Four Seasons Hotel and left with Xi…
Feasting on Donkey Skin
FOR ALMOST TWO millennia, donkey hide glue (colla corii asini) has been part of the Chinese apotheca…
Dreams of Prosperity in Papua New Guinea
ON 20 NOVEMBER 2017, Papua New Guinea (PNG) formally signed on to the Belt and Road Initiative, with…
Chapter 8 - Human Rights in the Age of Prosperity
ON 13 JULY 2017, the 2010 Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波 passed away at the age of sixty-one. T…
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
R. H. Kotewall (Lo Kuk-wu) 羅旭龢
This article is excerpted from Biographies of Prominent Chinese, published in Shanghai in c.1925.
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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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