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…
Power in Chinese Foreign Policy
WITH CHINA HAVING the world’s second largest economy, increasingly sophisticated armed forces, d…
Chapter 1 - Immunity to Temptation — ‘Power’ in Chinese Language
ACCORDING TO PLATO, only he who does not want power is fit to hold it. According to Laozi 老子, he…
Buying power: Alibaba in South-east Asia
IN FEBRUARY 2018, China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba invested US$2 billion in Lazada — a South-East As…
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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