Books
01.23.17

China as an Innovation Nation

This volume assesses China’s transition to innovation-nation status in terms of social conditions, industry characteristics, and economic impacts over the past three decades, also providing insights into future developments.

China’s Digital Dictatorship

Turn the spotlight on the rulers, not the ruled: Instead of rating citizens, the government should be allowing them to assess the way it rules

Made in China 2025

Mercator Institute for China Studies

This report analyses China’s ambitious plan to build one of the world’s most advanced and competitive economies with the help of innovative manufacturing technologies (“smart manufacturing”). China’s industrial master plan “Made in China 2025”...

The China Africa Project
11.17.16

China’s Controversial, Out-Sized Role in Africa’s Digital Revolution

Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more

Africa is home to one of the fastest growing technology markets in the world. In fact, more African households own a mobile phone...

Made in China

Once known for cheap knockoffs, Chinese companies are now the world’s innovators

Media
05.31.16

Will China’s ‘Taobao Villages’ Spur a Rural Revolution?

from chinadialogue

The province of Shanxi, in northern China, is famous for coal mining...

Caixin Media
04.12.16

Chinese Telecoms Gear Maker ZTE Fighting U.S. Export Ban

The second-largest maker of telecoms gear in China is scrambling to get off a U.S. export blacklist that threatens to dry up supplies of critical components.

“The investigations are still in progress, and may result in...

Green Space
02.16.16

Gorging on Gadgets

Michael Zhao

Documentary filmmaker Sue Williams is finishing up her latest documentary about our beloved electronic gadgets, Death By Design. I was involved in the project...

Is CES Still Relevant?

[T]he CES show is international, and it embraces companies from all over the world. But make no mistake, the Chinese have arrived, and they plan to disrupt the traditional CE players as much as possible and take market share away from them fast...

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