6 articles on greater China's politics, economy, society and culture.
This issue of China Currents once again covers a wide swatch of intellectual territory for anyone interested in tracking contemporary China, from the political economy of Chinese agriculture, to the economics...
Suing the Rural Chinese State and the Shift from Tax Reform to Land Seizures Introduction Beginning in the 1990s, both scholars and central officials repeatedly suggested that taxes and fees imposed on...
Centuries before President Donald Trump began withdrawing from multilateral trade agreements and retreating from international leadership roles, while promising to build a “big, beautiful wall,” there was...
Wu Jing, 44, the director and action star of Wolf Warriors (2015) and Wolf Warriors II (2017), did not set out to make China’s highest-grossing film in history. He reportedly had to take out a second mortgage...
Honestly, I’m a kung fu and action film fan, but I really enjoyed Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians , a film that proved to be a compellingly funny action-filled romantic comedy that economically sifted through a...
Dr. Deborah Davis is the China Research Center’s 2018 annual lecturer. Dr. Davis is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Yale University and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai as...
Quarterly essays on greater China by scholars who study the region closely, plus notice of our Atlanta events. Published continuously since 2002.