The lessons I draw from these efforts is that despite the Chinese government’s economic clout and its willingness to ...

Kenneth Roth is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Until August 2022, he served for nearly three decades as the Executive ...

Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, Cairo correspondent from 2011 to 2016, and Chengdu correspondent from 2019 to 2021. He is ...

What role does China play in Africa’s development? What drives China’s increasing economic involvement in the continent? This paper attempts to provide a quantified assessment of China’s multifaceted ...

China is a powerful nation now. Decades of fast GDP growth. The second largest economy in the world. Yet another “New Era” has been declared by yet another strong and wise leader (Mao Zedong used the ...

Steven Jiang has been a Beijing-based producer for CNN since 2010. Some of the stories he has covered include the plight of blind activist Chen Guangcheng and the fall of Communist leader Bo Xilai.

From their website:China Digital Times (CDT) is an independent, bilingual media organization that brings uncensored news and online voices from China to the world.We achieve this through:Filtering and ...

Robert A. Kapp maintains his own China consultancy, Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc., in Port Townsend, Washington. He is Senior Advisor to The China Program of the Carter Center, and served, in ...

Uradyn E. Bulag is a Reader in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. His interests broadly span East Asia and Inner Asia, especially China and Mongolia, the Mongolia-Tibet interface, ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, researcher and founder ...

Melinda Liu has been the Beijing Bureau Chief for Newsweek since 1998, returning to a city in which she had resided from 1980 to 1982 as Newsweek ’s first China-based correspondent since 1949. Liu won ...

The young Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet is now in a Chinese prison for “actively participating in terrorist activities.” He was likely targeted because he had studied in Turkey between 2010 and ...