Yearbook 2018: Power
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…
Raising the Flag: Loving Religion, Loving the State
ON THE MORNING of 20 August 2018, the priests of Tianshifu 天师府, a Daoist temple in Longhushan龙虎山, Yi…
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…
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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