Yearbook 2018: Power
Chapter 7 - China’s Power in Africa: Rhetoric and Reality
ON 3 SEPTEMBER 2018, President Xi Jinping 习近平 delivered a short and rousing speech at the openin…
Disenchantment in Taiwan
WHEN TAIWAN’S President Tsai Ing-wen 蔡英文 came to power in a landslide election victory in January 20…
Chapter 4 - Internment and Indoctrination — Xi’s ‘New Era’ in Xinjiang
ON 21 NOVEMBER 2018, Radio Free Asia announced that a court in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re…
Chapter 10 - The State Advances, the Private Sector Retreats
IN THE LATTER PART OF 2018, China’s State President and Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary …
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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