Yearbook 2018: Power

Sharp Power, Youth Power, and the New Politics in Taiwan
IN 2018, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) stepped up efforts to isolate Taiwan and hinder its qu…

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

Chapter 9 - The Anthropomorphic City — Power and Planning
THE NOTION THAT A CITY is powerful relies on some kind of anthropomorphism. A city is not a thin…

Chinese Engagement in Africa: Fragmented Power and Ghanaian Gold
CHINA’S EXPANDING presence in Africa is a topic of great interest — and often consternation — in Afr…
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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