Jerome Alan Cohen (July 1, 1930 – September 22, 2025) was a renowned American lawyer who was one of the foremost foreign scholars of Chinese law. After studying law at Yale, Cohen embarked on a career ...

Mei Wang received her Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University in 2017. Wang’s interests lie in U.S.-China relations. She did her undergraduate degree in Spanish Literature at Beijing ...

Georgia has become an increasingly popular destination for Chinese visitors. The number of visits nearly tripled between 2023 and 2024, with more than 88,500 visits last year. Yet leisure tourism does ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Farwa Aamer is the Director of South Asia Initiatives at the Asia ...

Tina Kanagaratnam is a co-founder of Historic Shanghai, established in 1998 with the goal of raising awareness of Shanghai’s unique history through research, city walks, and events. She is the author ...

Tania Branigan is China Correspondent for The Guardian and has been based in Beijing since 2008, covering every major story from the Wenchuan earthquake to the downfall of Bo Xilai, the Olympics, and ...

William Nee is the Research and Advocacy Coordinator at Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), where he carries out research regarding a wide array of human rights concerns impacting human rights ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Dexter Tiff Roberts is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic ...

Emma Zang is a Non-Resident Fellow on Chinese Society at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA) and an Associate Professor of Sociology, Biostatistics, and Global Affairs ...

Alexandra Stevenson is a reporter at The New York Times, where she has worked for the past four years and won the 2016 Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business award. Before ...

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