7 articles on greater China's politics, economy, society and culture.
China Currents has always been dedicated to peeling back the layers of complexity in the quest to understand contemporary China, and this issue is, in my humble opinion, a shining example of how we do that. In...
Every year since the death of Mao, it has become increasingly clear that China is on the rise and likely – though never certain – to emerge as a superpower. These four-and-a-half decades were not without...
On March 13, 1988, at the height of Gorbachev’s glasnost’ policy, an elderly teacher from Leningrad named Nina Andreeva published a letter in a conservative (i.e. anti-perestroika) Russian newspaper, defending...
The security and economic landscape in the Indo-Pacific is increasingly difficult to navigate. While trade agreements such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, the...
[caption id="attachment_5895" align="alignright" width="300"] The author with her classmates at their MBA graduation from National Taiwan Normal University in 2021.[/caption] I recently returned to the United...
This article is based on a presentation given to the International Club of Atlanta on December 7, 2021. Putting aside the political noise (as much as possible), both China and the U.S. face similar threats and...
This is an edited version of the original book review published in the U.S. China Perception Monitor , November 15, 2021. https://uscnpm.org/2021/11/15/review-desmond-shums-red-roulette/ Book Review: Desmond...
Quarterly essays on greater China by scholars who study the region closely, plus notice of our Atlanta events. Published continuously since 2002.