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2020 Issue

China Currents · Volume 19, Number 1

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

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Editor's Note James Schiffman

Introduction

This edition of China Currents offers three distinct types of articles. The first group of three essays focuses on China’s expanding relationships in Latin America and the Caribbean. All three were first...

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International Relations

China's Recent Engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean: Current Conditions and Challenges

Introduction Since the beginning of the 21st century, China’s presence in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been substantial in practically all socio-economic fields: cultural, bilateral, and...

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Science and Technology

Earth Observing Satellites and Open Data Sharing in China

Introduction Over the past decade, governments around the world have begun adopting policies that make data they collect openly available to all users at no cost — notably information from Earth observation...

Culture

The China Complex

What to think about China and its rising power? What is the historical background and contemporary rationale behind the many and varied views about the emergence of China on the global stage? How to understand...

Culture

On Grades

My six-year-old daughter learned about grading during my year-long sabbatical in Beijing. Grades and testing had been a foreign concept in her short educational experience in the U.S. The only tests she and...

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