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China Currents
A Journal of the China Research Center
2018: Vol. 17, No. 2
Editor’s Note
This issue of China Currents once again covers a wide swatch of intellectual territory for anyone interested in tracking contemporary China, from the political…
Squeezing the Same Old Stone
Suing the Rural Chinese State and the Shift from Tax Reform to Land Seizures Introduction Beginning in the 1990s, both scholars and central officials…
Commentary: Making China Great Again
Centuries before President Donald Trump began withdrawing from multilateral trade agreements and retreating from international leadership roles, while promising to build a “big, beautiful…
The Wolf Warriors Films: A Single Spark. A Prairie Fire?
Wu Jing, 44, the director and action star of Wolf Warriors (2015) and Wolf Warriors II (2017), did not set out to make China’s…
Review: Crazy Rich Asians
Honestly, I’m a kung fu and action film fan, but I really enjoyed Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians, a film that proved to…
Interview with China Scholar Dr. Deborah Davis, Yale University
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…
