Editor’s Note
The five articles in this issue of China Currents deal with current and unfolding topics. Vijaya Subrahmanyam’s piece explains how China’s new digital currency…
A Journal of the China Research Center
2023: Vol. 22, No. 1
China’s Digital Currency: The hopes and fears of the e-CNY
Introduction China’s Central Bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), has developed its own digital currency. The electronic China Yuan, or e-CNY, results from…
The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on the Chinese Economy
1. Introduction In recent years, China has faced complex and severe challenges: a trade war in 2018, the start of a pandemic in 2020,…
Polling in the Era of Strategic Competition
Does the Public’s Opinion Toward China Matter? Public opinion polls over the past several years reveal a significant shift in the American public’s attitudes…
Film Review: “China’s Last Peasant in Return to Dust (2022)”
Return to Dust (2022) is director and screenwriter Li Ruijun’s (born in 1983) sixth feature film. Similar to Li’s earlier films, including The Old…
Language Policy in Inner Mongolia and its Implications for Chinese and International Human Rights
This is an updated version of an article that was originally published on the website of the now-defunct ERA Institute. Inner Mongolia, officially an…