Yearbook 2017: Prosperity
Feasting on Donkey Skin
FOR ALMOST TWO millennia, donkey hide glue (colla corii asini) has been part of the Chinese apotheca…
A Shared Destiny: Dungans and the New Silk Road
IN JUNE 2017, forty-five Muslim students — Dungans 东干族 from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — celebrated t…
Doing Well, Dying Well
IN JUNE 2017, a Foshan 佛山 court handed Chen Hongping 陈弘平, former mayor of Jieyang 揭阳, a coastal …
Arguing with Robots
ON 18 SEPTEMBER, the People’s Daily unleashed its full fury on an unlikely target: an algorithm. The…
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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