China Currents Journal
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 differs from commonly used virtual payment systems. She argues that the e-CNY, issued by the People’s…
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 a six-year effort and follows a crackdown on private cryptocurrency trading and mining in 2021. Authorities…
1. Introduction In recent years, China has faced complex and severe challenges: a trade war in 2018, the start of a pandemic in 2020, the real estate turndown in 2021, and the end of “Zero-COVID” in 2022. These challenges, especially…
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 toward China. The public increasingly believes that China, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in particular,…
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 Donkey (2010), Fly with the Crane (2012), and River Road (2015), this film is set in…
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 autonomous region stretching across a wide area of north China, has become a battleground for expressing…
This multimedia issue follows a format initiated early this year when we engaged three leading scholars in discussing China’s reaction to the invasion of Ukraine. In this issue, Dr. Andy Wedeman, Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University, focuses…
On October 22, 2022, Xi Jinping was elected to a third term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Even though his elevation violated what many observers had come to believe was a new norm whereby the general…
Historian Michael Hunt believed the relationship between the U.S. and China is different from all the other American bilateral relationships because it has been buttressed by two pillars that are still central to the American exceptionalism. The first pillar is…
From mid-October to early December, potentially radical events impacted cross-strait relations between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China (China). It started when Xi Jinping gave himself an expected but unprecedented third term at the 20th…