Robin Li -- chairman of Chinese search engine Baidu and president of the Chinese Cultural Chamber of Commerce of the Private Sector -- is backing a new film production venture that intends to release as its first project a Hollywood 3D animation called Kong based on the ancient Chinese classic Journey to the West.
A salacious investigative report on state-run C.C.T.V., detailing widespread prostitution in the southern city of Dongguan, boomeranged on the broadcaster as a vocal contingent of citizens rallied to the defense of the city’s sex workers.
Shazeda Ahmed is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on how Chinese citizens interact with technology that teaches them about China's social credit system, and how private tech firms cooperate with the state in producing the technological infrastructure of the social credit system. Previously, she has worked as a researcher for the Citizen Lab, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, and the Ranking Digital Rights corporate transparency review by the New America Foundation.
Roseann Lake is an American journalist and electric scooter enthusiast based in Beijing. Highlights from her four years in China include motor-biking across Yunnan, hosting a TV travel series about Tibet, and plowing through the Kubuqi Desert of Inner Mongolia to investigate the anti-desertification properties of licorice plants.
Prior to Beijing, Lake lived for stints in Paris, Buenos Aires, and Florence. She speaks five languages and holds a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University. Publications her work has appeared in include TIME, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The Diplomat, Salon, and The South China Morning Post. She is the author of a forthcoming book about love in China.
Formerly a journalist and Financial Editor for China Radio International in Beijing, Yun Yu is currently pursuing a Masters degree in International Politics and Business from New York University. She is a graduate of the University of International Relations in Beijing. She is an intern with the Center of U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society.
Eric X. Li enumerates the defects of a U.S.-centric international system that he perceives to be crumbling, praises the deftness and strength he sees in China's statecraft, and predicts a coming period of international volatility as China displaces the United States.
The state prohibits content that “incites ethnic hatred,” yet according to Southern Weekly more than 70 anti-Japanese TV series were screened in China in 2012. The result of this stream of rancor is just what you’d expect.
The episode underscores the dual forces driving JPMorgan and other Wall Street banks to hire the family and friends of China’s ruling elite. The banks sought to build good will with Chinese officials, who, in turn, expected favors from the banks.
In late November of 2013, I sat chatting in a California concert hall with one of the PRC’s most famous first-generation pianists. Normally at this time of year, the pianist told me, he would be heading off to China to perform multiple New Year’s concerts with orchestras around the country.
Matthew is an artist, photojournalist, and cinematographer based out of Beijing and New York City. His work delves into urban development and notions of cultural progress through a variety of mediums including photography, video, and installation. His images of China have appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Wired, Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, and Foreign Policy, amongst many others. Matthew continues to concentrate on two projects entitled “Counterfeit Paradises” and “Kapital Creation.” These are his main outlets for exploring China’s rapid socioeconomic changes.
