New Challenges for Xi Jinping’s Anti-corruption Crackdown?
This piece was originally published by the China Policy Institute: Analysis, based at the School of Politics and International Relations, the University of Nottingham. An earlier article in China Currents…
Editor’s Note
This issue of China Currents covers a wide range of timely issues. Andy Wedeman’s piece analyzes China’s protracted anti-corruption campaign led by President Xi. While many analysts had expected the…
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 by examining specific issues and by…
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 find it hard to manage the size, complexity,…
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 audiences in China. Early in 2016,…
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 photo is used in the cover…
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 on China’s politics, David Shambaugh of…
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 of understanding China through the media. …
Editor’s Note
Contributions to this edition of China Currents highlight different aspects of the monumental and often wrenching changes sweeping Chinese society, some related directly to China’s engagement with the western world.…
Protestant Christianity in the People’s Republic
The history of Christianity in China is a remarkable tale of the encounters between two very different civilizations and of how a foreign religion survived, revitalized, and became a vibrant…