Politics and the Chinese Language

What Mo Yan’s Defenders Get Wrong

By Perry Link on December 24, 2012

The awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to the Chinese novelist Mo Yan has given rise to energetic debate, both within China’s borders and beyond. Earlier this month, ChinaFile ran an essay by Chinese literature scholar Charles Laughlin called “What Mo Yan’s Detractors Get Wrong.” That essay was, in large part, a critical response to an earlier piece in The New York Review of Books by Perry Link. We invited Link to respond.

U.S.-China Auditing Spat Turns Ugly

on December 24, 2012

The latest twist in a long-running dispute between Beijing and Washington securities regulators over Chinese audits is threatening to boot Chinese companies from America stock exchanges.

The plot thickened on December 3, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced administrative proceedings against the Chinese affiliates of five global accounting firms working for nine U.S.-traded Chinese companies suspected of financial fraud.

China Versus the SEC

A Sinica Podcast

By Jeremy Goldkorn, Patrick Chovanec & more on December 22, 2012

An ongoing battle between the American Securities and Exchange Commission and China over whether Chinese accounting firms can release accounting information required by U.S. law or whether these constitute “state secrets” is pushing China and the United States into conflict in global capital markets, threatening to force the U.S. agency responsible for overseeing capital markets to effectively de-list all Chinese companies.