China Tightens Grip on Foreign University Ventures

The directive, which took effect last year but whose existence is being revealed for the first time by the Financial Times, mandates foreign education institutions to include a clause that supports the establishment of a party...

Viewpoint
02.27.17

Back to the Jungle?

Zhang Boshu

The recent election of Donald J. Trump as the president of the United States is likely to have a profound effect on world history. The issue is not the controversies raised by Trump’s character, personality, abilities, and...

Viewpoint
04.06.16

Will China Ever Have Its Own Cinematic Superhero?

Anthony Kao

As Batman v Superman attempts to barnstorm cinema box offices worldwide, including in China—now the world’s No. 2 movie marketplace—I’ve been watching a different kind of hero movie:...

Viewpoint
04.23.15

China’s Leftists Are Embracing Confucius. Why?

Taisu Zhang

When Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu posted their new paper, “China’s Ideological Spectrum,” last week, it marked the first time that anyone has provided large-...

Sinica Podcast
04.20.15

China’s Ideological Spectrum

Kaiser Kuo & David Moser
from Sinica Podcast

Last week, Harvard doctoral student Jennifer Pan and MIT graduate student Yiqing Xu co-released a paper, “China’s Ideological Spectrum,” that has garnered a tremendous...

The China Africa Project
04.10.15

Chinese Dreams and the African Renaissance

Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more

Leaders in both China and Africa have articulated new visions for their respective regions that project a strong sense of confidence, renewal, and a break from once-dominant Western ideologies. In both cases, argues...

Excerpts
10.28.13

Stark Choices for China’s Leaders

Damien Ma & William Adams

One Beijing morning in early November 2012, seven men in dark suits strode onto the stage of the Great Hall of the People. China’s newly elected Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Xi Jinping stood at the center of the ensemble, flanked on...

Conversation
07.09.13

What Is the “Chinese Dream” Really All About?

Stein Ringen, Jeremy Goldkorn & more

Stein Ringen:

I’m coming to the view that the ‘Chinese Dream’ is a signal from the leadership of great import that has much to say about the nature of the Chinese state. It is striking, in my opinion, how effectively and...

Books
06.10.13

Anyuan

Ouyang Bin

How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists’ creative development and deployment of cultural resources – during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards.

Ideological Debate: Drawing the Battle Lines

Xi Jinping’s lip service to liberalization and constitutionalism has emboldened advocates of political reform. Party officials have responded by rallying against constitutionalism and warning activists to not adopt Western ideals....