Yearbook 2018: Power

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…

Chapter 3 - Technology: Rapid Ascent and Global Backlash
IN THE REALM OF technological innovation, China has arrived. China has launched manned space fli…

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…

Mao and Xi: Story of the Man, Story of the People
IS XI JINPING the new Chairman Mao? Now that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has eliminated the tw…
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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