Yearbook 2018: Power

Power Over Life and Death
HARBIN. NOVEMBER 2017. Sergio Canavero and Ren Xiaoping 任晓平 announced that the world’s first hum…

Towards a Healthier Future
IN THE SUMMER OF 2018, the movie Dying to Survive 我不是药神 stormed China’s domestic box office and …

Soft Power, Hard Times
IN AUGUST 2018, China’s outward-looking press, including the Global Times and the China Daily, wante…

The Power of Giving: China Deepens Involvement in Refugee Affairs
AT THE BEGINNING OF 2018, there were 68.5 million displaced people worldwide, including 25.4 million…
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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