A Political and Literary Forum
While economists enshrine Hong Kong as the ideal free market, the social consequences of its neoliberal policies have been disastrous.
Macabe Keliher
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
Reputational currency, like China's Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading.
Frank Pasquale
Despite the risks, Chinese social media users are beating online censorship.
Greg Distelhorst, Diana Fu, Yue Hou
The effects of revolutionary violence on Chinese poetry.
Nick Admussen
A crosscultural reading group in Beijing.
Drew Calvert
Charles Kenny's The Upside of Down.
Ali Wyne
Yu Hua's Boy in the Twilight.
Christian weddings are on the rise in China, even among non-believers.
Xiao-bo Yuan
The creative output of the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
It is difficult to think of a phenomenon that will shape the international system in coming decades
Here’s part of a very old classical Chinese poem, one from the Six Dynasties period that was
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