China’s College Counselors Told to Join the Party — the Communist Party
on November 19, 2015
China’s Education Ministry has deemed universities an “ideological frontline”.
Islamic State Claim of Hostage Killing Complicates China’s Terror Debate
on November 19, 2015
China vowed "justice" for a Chinese national kidnapped and apparently slain by the Islamic State.
A Response to Andrew Nathan
on November 19, 2015
I’d like to thank Andrew Nathan for his thoughtful critique of my book, published originally in short form in The National Interest and in longer form on ChinaFile.
China: Novelists Against the State
on November 19, 2015
Can writers help an injured society to heal? Did Ōe Kenzaburō, who traveled to Hiroshima in 1963 to interview survivors of the dropping of the atomic bomb on that city eighteen years earlier, and then published a moving book called Hiroshima Notes, help his compatriots to recover? Did Primo Levi, with his several books on the Holocaust, from the shocking Survival in Auschwitz (1947) to the profoundly humane The Drowned and the Saved (1986), help Europe and the world to adjust to facts that might have seemed impossible to adjust to?
Government Enlists NGOs to Help Homeless
Beijing is Paying Private Groups to Care for People Living on the Streets
on November 18, 2015
Drivers roll up car windows as an autumn wind chills a traffic-clogged overpass in western Beijing’s Liuliqiao area. And under the concrete overpass, homeless people are gathering for a chilly night’s rest after wandering city streets.
Among the homeless is a 52-year-old man surnamed Chen. He sits between two suitcases brought from his hometown in Hebei, the northern province next to Beijing, about a year ago. His hair is filthy and tangled, his hands pockmarked with vitiligo. The suitcases contain everything Chen owns.
Brian Eyler
on November 18, 2015
Brian Eyler is the Deputy Director of the Stimson Center’s Southeast Asia program. Eyler is an expert on transboundary issues in the Mekong region and specializes in China’s economic cooperation with Southeast Asia. He has spent more than 15 years living and working in China and over the last ten years has conducted extensive research with stakeholders in the Mekong region, leading numerous study tours through China and mainland Southeast Asia as Director of International Education Programs for IES Abroad. He holds a MPIA from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. from Bucknell University. Eyler is the co-founder of the website East by Southeast, and his upcoming book, The Last Days of the Mighty Mekong, will be published by Zed Books in 2017.
McDonald's China Heritage Outlet Criticised
on November 18, 2015
The opening of a McDonald's outlet in the home of former Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-kuo in Hangzhou, China has sparked a controversy.
Yes, China E-Commerce Is Huge
on November 18, 2015
Chinese security forces kill 17 in Xinjiang: Radio Free Asia
on November 18, 2015
China has appealed for the international community to provide more help in its campaign against Xinjiang militants following the attacks in Paris.