On Dealing with Chinese Censors

By Joseph W. Esherick on October 14, 2014

It was a hot afternoon in June in the East China city of Jinan. I was returning to my hotel after an afternoon coffee, thinking of the conference I had come to attend and trying to escape the heat on the shady side of the street. My cell phone rang, and I heard the distinctive regional accent of my Chinese publisher, calling from California, where he had recently bought a home so his wife could raise their child free of China’s stifling pollution. Had I received the emails with the requested revisions, he asked. He needed a response within 48 hours.

Sounds of Distinction

Peking Opera Idol Mei Lanfang May Be Best Remembered for His Overseas Tour of the U.S.

By Sheila Melvin on October 14, 2014

The Peking Opera star Mei Lanfang (1894-1961) is generally acknowledged to have been the greatest performer of female dan roles in the history of his art. He was also a renowned theatrical innovator whose performance style is carried on as the "Mei School." Among the activities held to commemorate the 120th anniversary of his birth was the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing's August tour to New York and Washington led by Mei's 80-year-old son, the dan actor Mei Baojiu.

Will Asia Bank on China?

A ChinaFile Conversation

By Zha Daojiong, Damien Ma & more on October 14, 2014

Last week The New York Times reported U.S. opposition to China's plans to launch a regional development bank to rival the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. If, as some say, the the launch is a fait accompli, should Washington focus instead on figuring how how best to work with the new institution? —The Editors

Julia Famularo

on October 13, 2014

Julia M. Famularo is a research affiliate at the Project 2049 Institute and a seventh-year doctoral candidate in modern East and Central Asian political history at Georgetown University. She is currently a Yale University International Security Studies Predoctoral Fellow. Ms. Famularo previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. She has contributed articles to publications such as The National Interest and The Diplomat.

Her recent research grants include the United States NSEP Boren Fellowship (People’s Republic of China); Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship (Nepal and India); and United States Fulbright Fellowship (Taiwan).

Ms. Famularo previously earned an M.A. in History from Georgetown University; an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Columbia University; and a B.A. in East Asian Studies and Spanish Literature from Haverford College. She has lived and traveled extensively in the People's Republic of China, ethnographic Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan.