Depth of Field
10.18.16

Over-Protective Mothers, E-cigarettes, Sports Hunting, and More

Ye Ming, Yan Cong & more
from Yuanjin Photo

A photojournalist’s job is to capture the unique and the universal—to portray brief moments that tell individual stories, yet are instantly relatable to a wide audience. The delightful task of curating that type of Chinese...

Sinica Podcast
10.14.16

An American’s Seven Months in a Chinese Jail

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more
from Sinica Podcast

In 2009, Michael Manning was working in Beijing for a state-owned news broadcaster by day, but he spent his nights selling bags of hashish. His position with CCTV was easy and brought him into contact with Chinese celebrities,...

Viewpoint
10.14.16

Let One Hundred Panthers Bloom

Eveline Chao

“Chairman Mao says that death comes to all of us, but it varies in its significance: to die for the reactionary is lighter than a feather; to die for the revolution is heavier than Mount Tai.” So wrote Huey P. Newton, founder of...

Books
10.11.16

The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

Raised to be “flowers of the nation,” the first generation born after the founding of the People’s Republic of China was united in its political outlook and ambitions. Its members embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966 but soon split into warring factions. Guobin Yang investigates the causes of this fracture and argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one’s revolutionary credentials.

China's Other Muslims

By choosing assimilation, China’s Hui have become one of the world’s most successful Muslim minorities

Conversation
10.06.16

Is the Growing Pessimism About China Warranted?

David Shambaugh, David M. Lampton & more
from Washington Quarterly

There are few more consequential questions in world affairs than China’s uncertain future trajectory. Assumptions of a reformist China integrated into the international community have given way in recent years to serious concerns about the nation...

The NYRB China Archive
10.06.16

China: A Life in Detention

Yang Zhanqing
from New York Review of Books

Every year in China, thousands of people suffer what the United Nations calls “arbitrary detention”: confinement in extra-legal facilities—including former government buildings, hotels, or mental hospitals—which are sometimes...

The China Africa Project
10.05.16

China’s Media Challenges Western Narratives of Africa

Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more

The Chinese media presence across Africa has expanded dramatically over the past ten years, as Beijing has...

Conversation
10.04.16

How Does the American Election Look to Chinese?

Qiaoyi Zhuang, Liu Mingfu & more

During the first presidential debate on September 26, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump mentioned China a dozen times. They spoke about China and jobs, currency, exports, infrastructure, cyberhacking, nuclear non-proliferation, trade, and North...

Media
09.29.16

How to Fix China’s Crooked Congress

Thomas Kellogg

Nearly four years into Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, Chinese citizens could be forgiven if their eyes glaze over at the news of yet another high official’s fall from grace. But even the most jaded likely...

The NYRB China Archive
09.29.16

‘The Songs of Birds’

Ian Johnson
from New York Review of Books

Day and night,
I copy the Diamond Sutra
of Prajnaparamita.
My writing looks more and more square.
It proves that I have not gone entirely
insane, but the tree I drew
hasn’t grown a
...

China in the World Podcast
09.28.16

North Korea and The South China Sea: What’s Next?

Paul Haenle & Gary Roughead
from Carnegie China

Given the increasingly complex security environment in the Asia-Pacific, it is critical for the United States and China to deepen cooperation on promoting regional stability. In this podcast, Paul Haenle and Admiral Gary Roughead, former Chief of...

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