She was 14 when Chinese artillery fire echoed across the hills around her home in northern Vietnam, and hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers swarmed across the border.
The immediate task before the Taiwan-born Sharon Yuan is persuading a slow-moving Chinese government to allow greater market access for U.S. businesses.
More than 1,000 top Communist officials, military veterans and young children, turned out for a highly choreographed memorial marking the Marco Polo bridge incident which sparked the Sino-Japanese in 1937.
The five BRICS nations have reached a broad consensus on their $100 billion development bank though some differences remain, a senior Chinese diplomat said ahead of a summit in Brazil next week.
Jeremiah Jenne is a history teacher and writer based in Beijing. He is a regular contributor to Radii China and the LA Review of Books China Channel. Jenne has also contributed articles to The Economist, The Atlantic, and many other publications writing on history and contemporary China.
Evan Osnos examines a changing China through gentle reportage, while Kerry Brown provides illuminating forensic analysis of its vicious power struggles
This week on Sinica, Jeremy Goldkorn and David Moser turn their attention to vice, in conversation with Robert Foyle Hunwick, a media consultant and editor for Beijing Cream. We talk about everything naughty that happens here, with special attention to the nightlife scene. Jumping around Southeast Asia, Robert gives a bit of dirt on the many vices of the night elsewhere in Asia.
In recent months, Chinese microblogging service Weibo has been eclipsed by the Facebook-like WeChat, which allows instant messaging within self-selected circles of followers.
Yan Cong is an independent photographer based in Beijing, where she was born and raised. She focuses most of her long-term projects on women’s issues, rural China, and China’s relations with its neighbors. Her work has been published in ChinaFile, The Huffington Post, Caixin Weekly, NetEase, and Tencent, among others.
In 2015, Yan was selected to participate in the Angkor Photo Workshop and the New York Portfolio Review, sponsored by the New York Times Lens blog and the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. Cong received a student grant from Oslo University College for her long-term project on Cambodian women migrating to China for marriage. She was nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass in 2016.
Cong is the co-founder of a Chinese-language photo blog, Yuanjin. She is also a contributing photographer to the @EyesOnChinaProject Instagram feed.
She holds a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia Journalism School.
Professor Mobo Gao was born and brought up in a small Chinese village which he did not leave until he went to Xiamen University to study English. He then went to the U.K. and studied at various universities including Wales, Cambridge, and London, before he completed his Masters and Doctorate degrees at Essex. Gao has working experience at various universities in China, the U.K., and in Australia, and has been a visiting fellow at some of the world's leading universities, including Oxford and Harvard.
Gao worked at the University of Tasmania before he was appointed Director of the Confucius Institute at Adelaide in 2008. His research interests include the study of rural China, contemporary Chinese politics and culture, Chinese migration to Australia, and Chinese language. His publications include four monographs and numerous book chapters and articles. One of his books, the critically acclaimed Gao Village: Rural Life in Modern China (University of Hawaii Press, 2007), is a case study of the village he came from. His latest book, The Battle of China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (Pluto Press, 2008), is a reassessment of the Mao era and the Cultural Revolution.
