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Class & Inequality

China and the Lure of Global Capitalism

Markets have played a central role in the country’s explosive development since the 1980s. But as GDP rose, inequality has soared—a stark turn away from earlier socialist ideals.

Macabe Keliher

Politics

The Power of the Party

Founded a century ago, the Chinese Communist Party retains popular support by selectively repressing and responding to social demands.

Macabe Keliher

Global Justice

Neoliberal Hong Kong Is Our Future, Too

While economists enshrine Hong Kong as the ideal free market, the social consequences of its neoliberal policies have been disastrous.

Macabe Keliher

Global Justice, Politics

No, Autocracies Aren't Better for Public Health

Some have praised China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but its suppression of information helped cause the problem in the first place.

Yasheng Huang

Politics

Quantifying Love

Reputational currency, like China's Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading.

Frank Pasquale

Politics

Searching for Mao in Xi Jinping's China

Forty-one years after Mao's death, is there still room for his politics in a rapidly changing China?

Roderick MacFarquhar

Science & Nature

Making Chinese Officials Accountable, Blog by Blog

Despite the risks, Chinese social media users are beating online censorship.

Greg Distelhorst, Diana Fu, Yue Hou

Arts in Society

The Language of Violence

The effects of revolutionary violence on Chinese poetry.

Nick Admussen

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Measure Words

A crosscultural reading group in Beijing.

Drew Calvert

Class & Inequality, Politics

Why the Success of the Rest is Good for America

Charles Kenny's The Upside of Down.

Ali Wyne

Arts in Society

Exploring the Hidden China

Yu Hua's Boy in the Twilight.

Drew Calvert

Arts in Society, Politics

Under the Cross in China

Christian weddings are on the rise in China, even among non-believers. 

Xiao-bo Yuan

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