Demographics, migration, inequality, family and everyday life. 45 articles from 2003 to 2022.
The rise of China has been one of the clearest, most predicted, and most predictable realities in a century of international politics. Rather than the result of a sudden shift like the decline of Britain after...
[caption id="attachment_5895" align="alignright" width="300"] The author with her classmates at their MBA graduation from National Taiwan Normal University in 2021.[/caption] I recently returned to the United...
[caption id="attachment_5651" align="alignright" width="296"] Nanjing University Professor Xu Xin (on left) and University of West Georgia Professor Jonathan Goldstein (on right) at October 2019 meeting of the...
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 Boston in a yellow jumpsuit and handcuffs. Lieber, whose...
Two years ago, I flew back to a small town in Minnesota, the unlikely place that sparked my interest in China more than two decades ago. I went to see friends and former professors, and learn about the...
Like a bull in a china shop, COVID-19 has shattered lives and wrecked economies worldwide. With millions of people in lockdowns, quarantines, or other forms of restrictions on mobility because of the ongoing...
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 tests she and...
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 of...
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 the 18th Party...
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 Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai as...
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 a compellingly funny action-filled romantic comedy that economically sifted through a...
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 film in history. He reportedly had to take out a second mortgage...
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 suggested that taxes and fees imposed on...
Xi Jinping's 19th Party Congress Report Just after the 19 th Party Congress in October, when a second volume of Xi Jinping’s Thoughts was published, I quickly moved to order my own copy through Amazon. Weeks...
The following is an address Dr. Bullock prepared for the third annual Young Scholars Forum at Nanjing University. The forum, held on September 21-22, 2016, was sponsored by The Global Times and the Carter...
This year marks the 20 th anniversary of Beijing United Family Hospital, the first western-standard joint-venture hospital to open its doors in China. Started as a women’s and children’s hospital, Beijing...
The year 2016 is an important milestone for China’s social development. China’s first charity law was passed in March and became effective in September. Moreover, China’s Foreign NGO Management Law was passed...
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. This interview...
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, an official rap...
Let me say it right here: The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida – The Evolution of a Landmark Epidemiological Study , by Deborah Kowal, is a monumental work. And here is why. The book is a vivid...
China has amazed the world once again, not with economic growth, but with the closing of its education gap. There has been tremendous transformation in Chinese education over the past three decades. With the...
Macau, first established in 1557 and the oldest former European colony in East Asia, is again facing challenges to its recently established status as the world’s largest gambling center. Enormous revenues...
The Fall of Chinese Courtyard Houses China’s rapid economic growth coupled with an unprecedented level of real estate development have resulted in an almost wholesale destruction of traditional siheyuan (四合院)...
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 torrent in China...
Introduction In 2008 and 2009 if I asked a Beijing taxi driver or anyone on the street about air quality on a hazy day, I was normally told that it was fog. No matter how much I tried to convince them that it...
The Eighteenth Party Congress’ Third Plenary Session’s Decision maps out the country’s plan for cultural and media development. There is nothing on the surface that suggests a radical departure from the tight...
In early 2012, China's government, in cooperation with the World Bank, issued a major white paper on the economic and social challenges facing the country in the period through 2030. The report called for a...
Rapid change in China is nothing new. Headlines highlight daily the growing importance of the country in the global economy and increasingly, on the political scene. The effect of these changes on a typical...
As a unique type of virtual communication, customer-to-customer interaction on the Web has been considered more effective in influencing consumer purchasing behavior than advertising or personal selling...
In China, Jia Zhangke's films, like other underground (dixia) and independent (duli) films, are more accessible in the little-known film clubs in big cities like Beijing and the living rooms of film critics...
Chinese born in the 1980's, known as 80 hou (baling hou in putong hua), are famous to Westerners as the first generation born during the enforcement of China's one-child policy. The 80 hou is a generation of...
Education reform in China has reached a new and crucial stage. The driving force is the need to produce an increasingly knowledgeable workforce equipped to handle the challenges of an economy that is not only...
Shanghai Spatial Development Shanghai, the giant “Head of the Dragon” at the mouth of the Yangtze River Delta, supports a population of over 20 million that more than doubled over the previous 20 years. Its...
China’s stunning economic growth since 1978 has resulted in a ten-fold increase in real GDP per capita, with an average annual growth rate of 8.6% in the past three decades (China Statistical Yearbook, 2008)...
China's nuclear power expansion "faster than planned"-Xinhua News Agency Nowhere is the resurgence of nuclear energy as evident as it is in China. The country is buying nearly every power plant design...
In 1988, China began allowing villagers to elect their leaders in an experiment that democracy advocates hoped would eventually lead to more pluralism throughout the political system. Today, the Communist...
We are all used to reading about tension and controversy between China and the United States. It seems a product made in China is recalled almost every day. Then there are disputes over intellectual property...
Stunning development According to "Science, Technology and Industry Outlook" released in late 2006 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, China has become the world’s second-largest...
With world leaders acknowledging that innovation will be the well-spring of economic development in the 21st Century, over one hundred participants from places as distant as New Delhi, Beijing, and Jerusalem...
Two weeks of travel by hired vehicle in Xinjiang during June-July 2006 left a deep impression of rapid development underway in China’s westernmost region. Very large amounts of money are clearly being poured...
Not long ago, Georgia students had to look far afield to get to China for short study courses. No more. Georgia's state and private universities now have numerous programs with a wealth of subject choices for...
The relations between China and Southeast Asia have experienced a great leap forward since the 1990s. Bilateral and multilateral level political and cultural exchanges have become more common, and trade...
On September 2, 2004 when Teddy Kaufmann, President of the Tel Aviv-based Association of Former Jewish Residents of China, recited the prayer for the dead at the grave of Harbin’s long serving Rabbi Aharon...
One of the main news stories of 2002 was China’s economic rise within Asia. With Japan’s continuing malaise, and other Asian countries still working their way out of the 1997 crisis, China served as the...
Less than a month after retiring, former Georgia Tech environmental scientist C.S. Kiang was named dean of the newly established College of Environmental Sciences at Peking University, one of China's most...
Quarterly essays on greater China by scholars who study the region closely, plus notice of our Atlanta events. Published continuously since 2002.