The China Complex
What to think about China and its rising power? What is the historical background and contemporary rationale behind the many and varied views about the emergence of China on the…
On Grades
My six-year-old daughter learned about grading during my year-long sabbatical in Beijing. Grades and testing had been a foreign concept in her short educational experience in the U.S. The only…
Special Issue: Introduction
One of the benefits of being a member of the China Research Center is ready access to colleagues possessing wide-ranging expertise on Chinese affairs. Five years have passed since I…
Revitalizing the Chinese Party-State: Institutional Reform in the Xi Era
Since the publication of my review of Chinese administrative reform in China Currents five years ago, significant changes have happened in China’s governance system. Most notable is the debut of…
A Crushing Tide Rolling to a Sweeping Victory: Xi Jinping’s Battle with Corruption after Six Years of Struggle
In late 2012, early 2013, newly selected Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping ordered an intensification of the regime’s ongoing attack on corruption. Party investigators and the Procuratorate…
Market vs. Government in Managing the Chinese Economy: Domestic and International Challenges Under Xi Jinping
This essay is a reflection of what I wrote five years ago on the Decisions of the 11th Party Congress’ 3rd Plenum of China’s Communist Party in 2013 (Liu, 2014).…
New Trends in China’s Media Control at Home and Public Diplomacy Abroad
This essay analyzes new trends in China’s media control mechanism and public diplomacy efforts in the past five years since the country issued its media and cultural policies pertaining to…
China’s Continued War on Air Pollution
Introduction Since Prime Minister Li Keqiang declared war against air pollution in March 2014, five years have passed. Last year, reports were coming out spreading good news. For example, concentrations…
There Is and Must Be Common Ground between the United States and China
An Interview with Yawei Liu conducted by Sun Lu Liu Yawei is the director of the China Program at The Carter Center in the United States and member of the…
Editor’s Note
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…