25 articles in China Currents, 2003 to 2023.
The five articles in this issue of China Currents deal with current and unfolding topics. Vijaya Subrahmanyam’s piece explains how China’s new digital currency differs from commonly used virtual payment...
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...
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...
At a time when U.S.-China relations are spiraling downward, a fracturing of global supply chains is underway, and countries are struggling to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, interest in the possible...
Editor’s note: Dr. Barry Naughton, the China Research Center’s 2020 annual lecturer, sat down for a wide-ranging interview with China Currents Managing Editor Penelope Prime and Center associates John Garver...
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He after signing the trade agreement. AP Photo/Evan Vucci Penelope B. Prime , Georgia State University U.S. President Donald Trump signed 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...
Dr. Penelope Prime, Director of the China Research Center, interviewed Dr. Lei Fang on October 18, 2016, about intellectual property right (IPR) protection in China, and the new trend of Chinese companies...
Penelope B. Prime , Georgia State University Chinese goods seem to be everywhere these days. Consider this: At the Olympics in Rio this summer, Chinese companies supplied the mascot dolls, much of the sports...
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...
Chinese Companies Invest in the U.S.: Cross-Cultural Challenges from a Tax Consulting Perspective Center Director, Penelope Prime, spoke with Mitchell Kopelman, Tax Practice Group Director, and Wendy Lu, Tax...
The new documentary film “The Land of Many Palaces” examines planned urbanization in China from the vantage point of Ordos in Inner Mongolia. Ordos is a vast, newly built city populated by people who have...
Reforming the Financial Industry The Eighteenth Party Congress’ Third Plenary Session’s Decision of November 2013 lists a new round of financial reforms aimed at introducing more market forces into the...
China’s Currency Reforms from a Banker’s Perspective: A Conversation with Henry Yu, Managing Director of Fifth Third Bank, Atlanta, Georgia. Introduction As China’s economy moves ever closer to surpassing the...
An Interview with Scott Ellyson, East West Manufacturing, Inc. Ten years ago, Scott Ellyson and Jeff Sweeney co-founded East West Manufacturing (www.ewmfg.com) in Atlanta to bring U.S.-based companies both the...
Article on CNN By Tom Evans, CNN, November 3, 2009 2:38 p.m. EST China today, say many analysts, is in a comparable position to U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century... an emerging power that the dominant...
China is both a partner and a rival depending on the venue and issue. Both the U.S. and China have benefited from their economic interactions via trade and investment--probably China has benefited more simply...
China saves, the U.S. consumes-or so the headlines say. Many analysts (including this author) have written about China’s high savings rates and therefore low consumption, which reinforces China’s dependence on...
As China celebrates 30 years since the starting point of Deng Xiaoping’s economic and political reforms, the Southern Center for International Studies and the China Research Center held a joint program to...
In recent years, but especially since the 1990s, the U.S. and China have become increasingly economically interdependent. For most of that time, both economies have been doing well, and for much of it, growing...
Not long ago, Georgia students had to look far afield to get to China for short study courses. No more. Georgia's state and private universities now have numerous programs with a wealth of subject choices for...
A major part of China’s current reform efforts involves strengthening the financial system and re-structuring and re-capitalizing, or selling, most of the companies still owned by various levels of government...
One of the main news stories of 2002 was China’s economic rise within Asia. With Japan’s continuing malaise, and other Asian countries still working their way out of the 1997 crisis, China served as the...
China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December, 2001. This event—the culmination of years of difficult negotiations and compromise—was historic. China’s membership meant the largest economy...
The China Data Center at the University of Michigan is dedicated to providing official data on China for scholars, practitioners and students around the world. The Center disseminates official statistics for...
Quarterly essays on greater China by scholars who study the region closely, plus notice of our Atlanta events. Published continuously since 2002.