China Currents | China Research Center

A Journal of the China Research Center

Current Issue | 2018: Volume 17, Number 2

Editor’s Note

October 30, 2018

This issue of China Currents once again covers a wide swatch of intellectual territory for anyone interested in tracking contemporary China, from the political economy of Chinese agriculture, to the economics and geopolitics of trade, to cultural products, and sociological insights. John Givens and Andrew MacDonald examine an age-old issue in China: exploitation of farmers by local officials. Givens and MacDonald report that while tax rates may have been lowered, local officials continue to find ways to squeeze farmers. Donald Johnson turns to geopolitics, offering an example from Chinese history to argue that Donald Trump’s…

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Squeezing the Same Old Stone:

October 30, 2018

Suing the Rural Chinese State and the Shift from Tax Reform to Land Seizures Introduction Beginning in the 1990s, both scholars and central officials repeatedly…

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Commentary: Making China Great Again

October 30, 2018

Centuries before President Donald Trump began withdrawing from multilateral trade agreements and retreating from international leadership roles, while promising to build a “big, beautiful wall,”…

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The Wolf Warriors Films: A Single Spark. A Prairie Fire?

October 30, 2018

Wu Jing, 44, the director and action star of Wolf Warriors (2015) and Wolf Warriors II (2017), did not set out to make China’s highest-grossing…

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Review: Crazy Rich Asians

October 30, 2018

Honestly, I’m a kung fu and action film fan, but I really enjoyed Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians, a film that proved to be…

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Interview with China Scholar Dr. Deborah Davis, Yale University

October 30, 2018

Dr. Deborah Davis is the China Research Center’s 2018 annual lecturer. Dr. Davis is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Yale University and a Distinguished Visiting…

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