China Currents

A Journal of the China Research Center

2019: Vol. 18, No. 1

Special Issue: Introduction

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. …

Revitalizing the Chinese Party-State: Institutional Reform in the Xi Era

Baogang Chinese Flag
Since the publication of my review of Chinese administrative reform in China Currents five years ago, significant changes have happened in China’s governance system.…

A Crushing Tide Rolling to a Sweeping Victory: Xi Jinping’s Battle with Corruption after Six Years of Struggle

Wedeman Beijing
In late 2012, early 2013, newly selected Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping ordered an intensification of the regime’s ongoing attack on…

Market vs. Government in Managing the Chinese Economy: Domestic and International Challenges Under Xi Jinping

Xuepeng Liu Sh Harbor
This essay is a reflection of what I wrote five years ago on the Decisions of the 11th Party Congress’ 3rd Plenum of China’s…

New Trends in China’s Media Control at Home and Public Diplomacy Abroad

China Daily
This essay analyzes new trends in China’s media control mechanism and public diplomacy efforts in the past five years since the country issued its…

China’s Continued War on Air Pollution

Saikawa Chart
Introduction Since Prime Minister Li Keqiang declared war against air pollution in March 2014, five years have passed. Last year, reports were coming out…

There Is and Must Be Common Ground between the United States and China

An Interview with Yawei Liu conducted by Sun Lu Liu Yawei is the director of the China Program at The Carter Center in the…
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