Editor’s Note
The articles in this edition of China Currents shed light on some major economic and political challenges to China’s continuing transformation and development, both…
A Journal of the China Research Center
2016: Vol. 15, No. 2
Employ “Design Thinking with Chinese Characteristics”
Introduction Western executives are accustomed to long, deliberate planning cycles to research, develop, and launch products in their mature home markets. Many of them…
Xi Jinping’s Soft Power Martial Arts Cultural Trope
Rap propaganda is the latest manifestation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s campaign to consolidate power using soft culture tropes to massage his image with…
China Rules the World?
The photo depicts Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meeting President Hu Jintao in 2006, and is from TV footage from Times Now in India. This…
Manifesto of China’s Reformers: David Shambaugh’s China’s Future?
A review of China’s Future? David Shambaugh, London: Polity Press, 2016. John W. Garver, Emeritus Professor Georgia Institute of Technology A leading U.S. authority…
Assignment China: An Interview with Mike Chinoy
Center Director, Penelope Prime, talked with former CNN correspondent, Mike Chinoy, via Skype on April 15, 2016, about his recent project on the process…