China’s Race Problem
April 22, 2015How Beijing Represses Minorities Gray Tuttle, Foreign Affairs For all the tremendous change China has experienced in recent decades—phenomenal economic growth, improved living standards, and an ascent to great-power status—the country has made little progress when it comes to the treatment of its ethnic minorities, most of whom live in read more →
China’s Race Problem
April 22, 2015How Beijing Represses Minorities Gray Tuttle, Foreign Affairs For all the tremendous change China has experienced in recent decades—phenomenal economic growth, improved living standards, and an ascent to great-power status—the country has made little progress when it comes to the treatment of its ethnic minorities, most of whom live in read more →
China – Losing Way in the Middle
April 22, 2015By Sherab Woeser* China has set a definitive tone for this year’s commemorations of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region’s 50 years by coming out with its most exhaustive and strongest rejection yet of the Middle Way Approach. But there is a catch. China’s version of MWA finds little consonance with read more →
China – Losing Way in the Middle
April 22, 2015By Sherab Woeser* China has set a definitive tone for this year’s commemorations of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region’s 50 years by coming out with its most exhaustive and strongest rejection yet of the Middle Way Approach. But there is a catch. China’s version of MWA finds little consonance with read more →
‘China wants to promote Indo-Pak peace talks amid Xi’s visit’
April 21, 2015The statement came as Xi landed in Pakistan on a two-day state visit to boost strategic ties with its all-weather ally during which he will reach a number of deals. By: Press Trust of India | Beijing | Updated: April 20, 2015 7:09 pm China on Monday said its role read more →
‘The 5 Great Jokes of Chinese History’: prominent scholar lampoons his ‘patriotic’ colleagues
April 20, 2015By Feng Xuerong, that’s, 20 April 2015 The following is a translation of a recent piece by prominent Chinese historian Feng Xuerong. Feng, born in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province and now based in Hong Kong, is the author of numerous volumes on late Qing and early Republican history. His take on read more →
‘The 5 Great Jokes of Chinese History’: prominent scholar lampoons his ‘patriotic’ colleagues
April 20, 2015By Feng Xuerong, that’s, 20 April 2015 The following is a translation of a recent piece by prominent Chinese historian Feng Xuerong. Feng, born in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province and now based in Hong Kong, is the author of numerous volumes on late Qing and early Republican history. His take on read more →
‘The 5 Great Jokes of Chinese History’: prominent scholar lampoons his ‘patriotic’ colleagues
April 20, 2015By Feng Xuerong, that’s, 20 April 2015 The following is a translation of a recent piece by prominent Chinese historian Feng Xuerong. Feng, born in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province and now based in Hong Kong, is the author of numerous volumes on late Qing and early Republican history. His take on read more →
Born Red
April 20, 2015How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao. By Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 April 2015 In anticipation of New Year’s Eve, 2014, Xi Jinping, the President of China and the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, permitted a camera crew to read more →
Born Red
April 20, 2015How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao. By Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 April 2015 In anticipation of New Year’s Eve, 2014, Xi Jinping, the President of China and the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, permitted a camera crew to read more →