China Currents

A Journal of the China Research Center

2022: Vol. 21, No. 2

Editor’s Note

This issue of China Currents focuses on a broad question that has been long discussed and likely will profoundly shape the world in the…

China Ostrichism: Why Didn’t the World Prepare for China’s Rise?

China Ostrichism
The rise of China has been one of the clearest, most predicted, and most predictable realities in a century of international politics. Rather than…

Challenges of China’s Rise to Become a Global Innovation Leader in the 21st Century

Suresh Sharma Photo
A brief look at the parallels, precedence, and paradoxes Between 2012 and 2018, a few colleagues and I studied next-generation innovation ecosystems globally. We…

The Roles of Tianxia and Westphalian Sovereignty in Understanding Relations Between China and Xinjiang

Xinjiang
The “Xinjiang question” poses one of the most controversial issues for China scholars today. A significant portion of the region’s Turkic Uyghur Muslim population…

Deja Vu: China’s Relations with the West

Nanjing Skyline 1982
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…

Doing Business in Shanghai: An Interview with William D. Frazier

William Frazier
William D. Frazier’s company, Shanghai-America Direct Import & Export, is based in Shanghai (xmftrade.com). He is the author of Black American Entrepreneur in China:…
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