May 13, 2025
Editor’s Note
Most people probably have heard the proverb about the blind men and the elephant, each describing a very different animal depending on the part of the animal by which they stood. Revision 1: let’s swap out the...
Most people probably have heard the proverb about the blind men and the elephant, each describing a very different animal depending on the part of the animal by which they stood. Revision 1: let’s swap out the...
One of the benefits of being a member of the China Research Center is ready access to colleagues possessing wide-ranging expertise on Chinese affairs. Five years have passed since I last drew upon these...
Xi Jinping's 19th Party Congress Report Just after the 19 th Party Congress in October, when a second volume of Xi Jinping’s Thoughts was published, I quickly moved to order my own copy through Amazon. Weeks...

China watchers are to Third Plenums of Chinese Communist Party Congresses as film buffs are to the Oscars. One reason is the storied history of Third Plenum Decisions in the post-Mao era. Two of them marked...
October's meeting of the 6th plenum of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) concluded by passing "The Resolution on Some Issues in Building a Harmonious Socialist Society." This...
Quarterly essays on greater China by scholars who study the region closely, plus notice of our Atlanta events. Published continuously since 2002.