Yearbook 2018: Power

Rapprochement with the Vatican
IN SEPTEMBER 2018, after several years of rapprochement, the Vatican signed a provisional agreement …

China’s Base in Djibouti: Who’s Got the Power?
BIG THINGS ARE happening in the tiny African nation of Djibouti. A poor country roughly the size of …

Chapter 6 - Australia’s China Debate in 2018
FOR SOME TIME NOW, Australia’s foreign policy establishment has contemplated how best to navigat…

Sinology as Spectacle
IN MAY 2018, I participated in the Young Sinologist Program 青年汉学家研修计划 in Chongqing. On the last morn…
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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