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2016 Issue

China Currents · Volume 15, Number 2

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

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Editor's Note James Schiffman

Editor's Note

The articles in this edition of China Currents shed light on some major economic and political challenges to China’s continuing transformation and development, both by examining specific issues and by...

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Business

Employ “Design Thinking with Chinese Characteristics”

Introduction Western executives are accustomed to long, deliberate planning cycles to research, develop, and launch products in their mature home markets. Many of them find it hard to manage the size...

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Culture

Xi Jinping’s Soft Power Martial Arts Cultural Trope

Rap propaganda is the latest manifestation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s campaign to consolidate power using soft culture tropes to massage his image with audiences in China. Early in 2016, an official rap...

History

China Rules the World?

The photo depicts Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meeting President Hu Jintao in 2006, and is from TV footage from Times Now in India. This photo is used in the cover art for the book Are We Deceiving Ourselves...

International Relations

Assignment China: An Interview with Mike Chinoy

Center Director, Penelope Prime, talked with former CNN correspondent, Mike Chinoy, via Skype on April 15, 2016, about his recent project on the process of understanding China through the media. This interview...

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