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…
Peripheral Trouble: The Sino-Indian Standoff
THE FIRST HALF OF 2017 was, for the most part, relatively quiet on China’s disputed periphery. But t…
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…
Rainbow Connections
ON 20 MAY 2017, a group of parents went to the People’s Park 人民广场, Shanghai’s ‘dating park’, to …
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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