China’s Long March to a Market Economy

Cato Institute

The U.S. Congress is in the historic position of being able to help pro-reform leaders in China move their country in a market-oriented direction. A vote to grant China permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status will bolster the position of...

Trade and the Transformation of China

Cato Institute

Congress will soon consider whether to revoke normal trade relations (NTR) with China and then, possibly in the fall, whether to make NTR permanent as part of China’s anticipated entry into the World Trade Organization. The consequences of...

The NYRB China Archive
02.03.94

Where the East Begins

Jonathan D. Spence
from New York Review of Books

Between 1965 and 1977, Donald Lach published the first two volumes of his Asia in the Making of Europe, an illuminating and erudite survey of the various ways that Asia has affected scholarship, literature, and the visual arts in the...

The NYRB China Archive
04.01.82

China: Mulberries and Famine

Jonathan D. Spence
from New York Review of Books

Near the beginning of the Chinese “Classic of Historical Documents” (the Shujing), where the doings of early mythic rulers are being described, there is a brief passage that stands out among the others for its precision and clarity. The...

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