Yearbook 2018: Power

Chapter 4 - Internment and Indoctrination — Xi’s ‘New Era’ in Xinjiang
ON 21 NOVEMBER 2018, Radio Free Asia announced that a court in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re…

Passing Marx
ON 5 MAY 2018, the bicentenary of Karl Marx’s birth, a bronze statue of the philosopher was unve…

Introduction: Powering Up
On 18 December 2018, Xi Jinping 习近平, the most powerful man in an increasingly powerful Peopl…

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…
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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