China Currents
A Journal of the China Research Center
Current Issue | 2020: Volume 19, Number 3
Editor’s Note
This issue of China Currents features an eclectic mix of topics that would capture more of our attention if the world were not obsessed with the coronavirus pandemic. In that world, U.S.-China relations are not expected to markedly improve, whoever wins the U.S. presidency. In our lead article, John Krige tracks how deteriorating U.S.-China ties have upended cooperation in academic research. Neslihan Topcu explores the increasingly important role Myanmar is playing in satisfying China’s energy needs. Jiani Wang and William Scheela offer an overview of angel investing in China. Edward Yihuai Wang excavates the little…
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Scholars or Spies? U.S.-China Tension in Academic Collaboration
In January 2020, Charles Lieber, the Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was led into a federal court in…
A Relationship on a Pipeline: China and Myanmar
1. Introduction Although the relationship between China and Myanmar goes far back in history, the energy relationship between two countries is quite new. Myanmar became…
Business Angels’ Investment Strategies and Organizational Change in China
Introduction Business Angels (BAs) are typically high net worth businessmen and women who invest both their personal money and time in high-growth potential, unlisted, early-stage…
Hongqi: from Mao to Xi
On September 3, 2015, the Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and The…
Some Unanswered Questions About the Shanghai Jewish Experience
The history of Shanghai and of its Jewish community, in particular, are among the most exhaustively researched topics in modern Chinese and modern Jewish history,…