Yearbook 2018: Power

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…

Passing Marx
ON 5 MAY 2018, the bicentenary of Karl Marx’s birth, a bronze statue of the philosopher was unve…

Chapter 2 - Talking (Up) Power
ON 2 MARCH 2018, Amazing China 厉害了, 我的国 — a ninety-minute, state-funded documentary film — opene…

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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