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2022 Issue

China Currents · Volume 21, 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

This issue of China Currents focuses on a broad question that has been long discussed and likely will profoundly shape the world in the coming decades: what are the implications of the rise of China? John...

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Culture

China Ostrichism: Why Didn’t the World Prepare for China’s Rise?

The rise of China has been one of the clearest, most predicted, and most predictable realities in a century of international politics. Rather than the result of a sudden shift like the decline of Britain after...

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Culture

Deja Vu: China's Relations with the West

The early 1980s saw the first glimpses of China's domestic reforms and interactions with people and economies outside China. This loosening was dangerous territory for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which...

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