Yearbook 2018: Power
China’s Korea Diplomacy
WHEN 2018 DAWNED OVER the Korean peninsula, the prospects for peace looked dim. Following North …
China’s Base in Djibouti: Who’s Got the Power?
BIG THINGS ARE happening in the tiny African nation of Djibouti. A poor country roughly the size of …
Raising the Flag: Loving Religion, Loving the State
ON THE MORNING of 20 August 2018, the priests of Tianshifu 天师府, a Daoist temple in Longhushan龙虎山, Yi…
Chapter 1 - Immunity to Temptation — ‘Power’ in Chinese Language
ACCORDING TO PLATO, only he who does not want power is fit to hold it. According to Laozi 老子, he…
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
P.W. Kuo (Guo Bingwen) 郭秉文
Dr. P.W. Kuo (Kuo Ping-wen), President of the National Southeastern University, was born in Shan…
Hu Suh (Hu Shi) 胡適
This article is excerpted from Biographies of Prominent Chinese, published in Shanghai in c.1925.
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