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2016 Issue

China Currents · Volume 15, Number 1

7 articles on greater China's politics, economy, society and culture.

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Editor's Note

Editor's Note

Contributions to this edition of China Currents highlight different aspects of the monumental and often wrenching changes sweeping Chinese society, some related directly to China’s engagement with the western...

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Culture

Protestant Christianity in the People’s Republic

The history of Christianity in China is a remarkable tale of the encounters between two very different civilizations and of how a foreign religion survived, revitalized, and became a vibrant torrent in China...

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Culture

Chinese Courtyard Housing under Socialist Market Economy

The Fall of Chinese Courtyard Houses China’s rapid economic growth coupled with an unprecedented level of real estate development have resulted in an almost wholesale destruction of traditional siheyuan (四合院)...

Economy

Macau: New challenges test the city's prospects

Macau, first established in 1557 and the oldest former European colony in East Asia, is again facing challenges to its recently established status as the world’s largest gambling center. Enormous revenues...

Culture

Rural China’s Fallen Children

China has amazed the world once again, not with economic growth, but with the closing of its education gap. There has been tremendous transformation in Chinese education over the past three decades. With the...

Health

Review of The China-US partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida

Let me say it right here: The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida – The Evolution of a Landmark Epidemiological Study , by Deborah Kowal, is a monumental work. And here is why. The book is a vivid...

Business

Chinese Investment in the U.S.: An Interview with HA&W

Chinese Companies Invest in the U.S.: Cross-Cultural Challenges from a Tax Consulting Perspective Center Director, Penelope Prime, spoke with Mitchell Kopelman, Tax Practice Group Director, and Wendy Lu, Tax...

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