Maria Repnikova

on August 18, 2015

Maria Repnikova is an expert on Chinese political communication, and Associate Professor in Global Communication and William C. Pate Chair in Strategic Communication at Georgia State University. She has written widely on China’s media politics, including propaganda, journalism practices, and soft power. Repnikova is the author of the award-winning book, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge, 2017), as well as the recent Chinese Soft Power (Cambridge Global China Element Series, 2022), and many academic articles. She also has bylines in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, amongst other international media outlets. In addition to her work on China, she has also carried out comparative work on media politics in China and Russia, and is currently completing a monograph on Chinese soft power in Africa. Previously, Repnikova was a Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center (2020-2021), a post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication (2014-2016), and a visiting fellow at Beijing University (2019), amongst other positions. Repnikova holds a doctorate in Politics from the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

In China, Single Women Live by Their Own Rules

By Whitney Richardson & Klaudia Lech on August 15, 2015

Though many single women have recently begun to push back on the term, traditional attitudes among China’s older generation still prevail: Get married young or risk becoming unwanted goods. Klaudia Lech, a photographer based in Oslo, was researching women’s rights in China, when she noticed articles popping up online about the plight of these women.

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James Wan

on August 14, 2015

James Wan is the London-based Editor of the Royal African Society’s African Arguments website. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at Think Africa Press where he reported extensively on China-Africa issues. Wan is a former fellow of the Wits University China-Africa Reporting Project and, in 2014, was awarded a grant to conduct an investigation in Uganda. He describes himself as having “Chinese blood, Mauritian heritage, and British sensibilities.” A complete profile of Wan is available on his portfolio website.

Sorry China, the Internet You’re Looking for Does Not Exist

The Government Must Loosen its Stranglehold on the Web to Truly Enter the 21st Century

By David Wertime on August 13, 2015

The long arm of China’s massive internal security apparatus just reached further into the heart of the country’s web. On August 4, China’s Ministry of Public Security announced that it would embed law enforcement officers at major Internet companies, which appear to include China Mobile, U.S.-listed Alibaba, and Tencent, which owns WeChat, the country’s largest social network.