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China Currents
A Journal of the China Research Center
2015: Vol. 14, No. 1
Editor’s Note
The overarching themes that emerge from the offerings in this edition of China Currents will be familiar to anyone who follows China closely. Our…
Shanghai FTZ: Expectations Have Never Been Aligned With Reality
“Unrealistic Expectations” On September 29, 2013, China officially opened the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, or FTZ, an outwardly ambitious project to bring a new…
Responsible Sourcing Standards and Social Accountability: Are They Possible in a Global Supply Chain?
The allegation of child labor did not exactly fit the picture I was looking at — a photo of a toddler sitting next to…
Mobile Technology in China: A Transformation of the Payments Industry
Introduction Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce firm, raised $25 billion from its initial U.S. public offering (IPO) in September 2014 putting China on the e-commerce…
China and the Iran Model
A 2011 biography of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah or king of Iran from 1941 to 1979, lays out a number of haunting similarities…
An Interview with filmakers Adam James Smith and Song Ting
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,…
