Yearbook 2018: Power

Chapter 10 - The State Advances, the Private Sector Retreats
IN THE LATTER PART OF 2018, China’s State President and Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary …

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

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…

China’s Korea Diplomacy
WHEN 2018 DAWNED OVER the Korean peninsula, the prospects for peace looked dim. Following North …
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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