Yearbook 2018: Power
Chapter 7 - China’s Power in Africa: Rhetoric and Reality
ON 3 SEPTEMBER 2018, President Xi Jinping 习近平 delivered a short and rousing speech at the openin…
Rapprochement with the Vatican
IN SEPTEMBER 2018, after several years of rapprochement, the Vatican signed a provisional agreement …
Power Over Life and Death
HARBIN. NOVEMBER 2017. Sergio Canavero and Ren Xiaoping 任晓平 announced that the world’s first hum…
延禧攻略
2018年夏天，古装剧《延禧攻略》在网络平台爱奇艺上线以来，迅速爆红，拥有超过145亿的播放量，成为18年暑期档极为抢眼的热播剧。该剧的故事背景设在清朝乾隆年间（1735年—1796年），讲述了乾隆的…
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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