‘Crotch Bomb’ in Anti-Japan War Drama Blasted by Chinese Netizens as 'Lewd, Bizarre'
on May 19, 2015
When a prisoner pulls his hand from underneath the heroine's dress, he is holding a bomb, which he then detonates.
Jill Baker
on May 19, 2015
Jill Baker is an Adjunct Fellow at Asia Business Council in Hong Kong, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. She was the principal researcher for The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency, by Mark Clifford. Baker is a Director at Foundation for Child Development, and has 18 years of professional experience in asset management, most recently at Advent Capital Management in New York City.
[Baker is a President’s Circle contributor to Asia Society.]
Hong Kong’s Not That Special, And Beijing Should Stop Saying It Is
on May 19, 2015
As political wrangling in Hong Kong continues over changes to how the city’s chief executive will be selected in 2017, Beijing marks the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the Hong Kong Basic Law—the Special Administrative Region’s constitutional document.
Chinese Professors Among 6 Charged with Economic Espionage
on May 19, 2015
U.S. federal prosecutors allege Beijing sponsored economic espionage in the alleged theft of sensitive American made radio frequency filters.
Alvin Y.H. Cheung
on May 19, 2015
Alvin Y.H. Cheung is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University and a Non-Resident Affiliated Scholar at NYU’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute. His research addresses the systematic abuse of sub-constitutional legal norms and institutions by authoritarian regimes.
Cheung holds degrees from NYU (J.S.D. 2020; LL.M. in International Legal Studies, 2014) and Cambridge (M.A. 2011), and has worked in Hong Kong as a barrister and as a lecturer in Law & Public Affairs at Hong Kong Baptist University.
He has written and presented extensively about Hong Kong for academic, specialist, and lay audiences. In addition to being a ChinaFile contributor, his writing on Hong Kong has appeared in publications such as the South China Morning Post, The Diplomat, Opinio Juris, World Policy Journal, and the China Rights Forum. He has also been quoted in articles by media outlets such as Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, Time, Quartz, Al-Jazeera, and the Associated Press.
In China, ‘Breaking Bad’ is Real
on May 19, 2015
Chinese police have arrested a Chinese college chemistry professor for joining forces with a drug kingpin.
China Issues Plan for Gleaming High-tech Future
on May 19, 2015
China’s plan to promote advanced industry is supposed to aid its economy’s move away from low-value manufacturing.
Why Hong Kong is Clamping Down on Creative Writing
on May 19, 2015
The decision to close City University’s MFA program is plainly intended to limit free expression.
Dredging For Disaster
Beijing’s Massive South China Sea Island-Building is Destroying Coral Reefs
on May 19, 2015
Tensions are rising in the South China Sea. On May 16, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Beijing for talks which will likely focus on the territorial disputes.
China: Protests For High-Speed Rail Line To ‘Abandoned' City’ Triggers Violent Clashes
on May 18, 2015
China: Protests For High-Speed Rail Line To 'Abandoned' City Triggers Violent Clashes http://www.ibtimes.com/china-protests-high-speed-rail-line-abandoned-cit...