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Kaiser Kuo on How China Threatens the U.S. Self-Conception
In this wide-ranging interview, Kaiser Kuo of SupChina discusses China and the US, or is it the US and China. He touches on race,...
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The Original Ballad of Mulan
Using the original Ballad of Mulan (a relatively short 31-couplet poem from 1,500 years ago) as muse, Professor Jim Millward in LARB...
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A Look into My Book Club
A thoughtful conversation about China, the West, and current affairs. This is what I had a few nights ago in speaking with a group of...
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Robert Bennet Forbes and the Museum of Chinese in America
Early nineteenth century China trader and Massachusetts native, Robert Bennet Forbes, spent many years in Asia and lived in Canton from...
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Chinese institute hopes deep freezing bodies can become future of medicine
Originally Published by Elaine Yau on InkStoneNews.com No longer just the province of potentially preserving the deceased, some in...
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Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory
Originally Published by Daniel C. Dennett on NYTimes.com Professor Joseph Henrich of Harvard University has written a new book in which...
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How Joe Biden Should Deal with China
Originally published by Dori Jones Yang on dorijonesyang.com Dori Jones Yang, former foreign correspondent in Asia and author, offers...
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How China is preparing its economy for a future where the U.S. isn’t the center of global demand
Originally published by Evelyn Cheng on CNBC.com The title of this article says it all, "How China is preparing its economy for a future...
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To counter China, some Republicans are abandoning free-market orthodoxy
Concerned that the U.S. is losing its edge in tech competition, some U.S. conservatives are embracing more government intervention in the...
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The Leshan Giant Buddha
Heavy flooding in Southwestern China reached the feet of the Leshan Giant Buddha (樂山大佛) last week for the first time in more than seventy...
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Liana Returning to China (8.2020)
My significant other, Liana, returned to China last week. This week I will share her tale of flying from Boston to China (Part 1),...
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Pompeo’s Surreal Speech on China
An ideological struggle is under way between Beijing and free societies, and the Trump administration is on the wrong side. Originally...
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‘Clean Up This Mess’: The Chinese Thinkers Behind Xi’s Hard Line
Chinese academics have been honing the Communist Party’s authoritarian response in Hong Kong, rejecting the liberal ideas of their youth....
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Hari Sreenivasan of PBS NewsHour Interviews William Kirby
This is a recent interview with Harvard China Studies Professor William Kirby. While he discusses the current U.S.-China relationship in...
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Officials Push U.S.-China Relations Toward Point of No Return
Top aides to President Trump want to leave a lasting legacy of ruptured ties between the two powers. China’s aggression has been helping...
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China Orders U.S. to Shut Chengdu Consulate, Retaliating for Houston
Originally Published by Keith Bradsher and Steven Lee Myers on NYTimes.com The onslaught of U.S.-China news continues (a pointed...
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U.S. Orders China to Close Houston Consulate, Citing Efforts to Steal Trade Secrets
Originally Published by Edward Wong , Lara Jakes and Steven Lee Myers on NYTimes.com Maintaining engagement is unfortunately becoming...
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Is There a Future for Values-Based Engagement with China?
Originally Published on ChinaFile.com Yes. Yes. Yes. We should definitely continue engaging with China. Nurturing and maintaining a...
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Kicked Out of China, and Other Real-Life Costs of a Geopolitical Meltdown
When countries clash, here’s what happens to those of us caught in the middle. Originally Published by Ian Johnson in the New York Times...
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The Far, Wide, Early Thirteenth Century, Chinese Maritime World
Originally Published on Medium.com Fifty years before the arrival of Marco Polo, a late Southern Song Dynasty government official based...
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