Tom Orlik

on January 29, 2016

Tom Orlik is Bloomberg’s Chief Asia Economist based in Beijing. Orlik leads a team providing in-depth analysis of Asia macroeconomic data and policies, and how they will impact financial markets globally. The focus of his research is on China. Previously, Orlik was the chief China economics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, and China economist for Stone & McCarthy Research Associates. Prior to coming to China, he was an advisor to the UK Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund and policy analyst at the British Treasury. He is the author of Understanding China’s Economic Indicators, a guide to working with China’s economic data. Orlik has a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor’s in English from University College London.

‘The New Yorker’ on China

A ChinaFile Presents Transcript

By Jiayang Fan, Peter Hessler & more on January 29, 2016

Following is an edited transcript of a live event hosted at Asia Society New York on December 17, 2015, “ChinaFile Presents: The New Yorker On China.” (The full video appears above.) The evening, introduced by Asia Society President Josette Sheeran, convened the writers Jiayang Fan, Peter Hessler, Evan Osnos, Zha Jianying, and Orville Schell for a look back at their four decades of reporting on China for The New Yorker. Moderating their discussion was David Remnick, the magazine’s editor. —The Editors

Jiayang Fan

on January 29, 2016

Jiayang Fan is on the editorial staff The New Yorker. She frequently writes about China and Chinese-American issues for the magazine and the website, as well as other publications. She moved to the U.S. from Chongqing at the age of eight.

‘I Don't Want to Think About Activating Change’

A Q&A with David Barboza on Reporting in China for ‘The New York Times’

By Eric Fish on January 29, 2016

In 2012, The New York Times published a groundbreaking investigative report showing that the family of Wen Jiabao, China’s then-prime minister, possessed wealth in excess of $2.7 billion. In response, the Chinese government blocked the Times’ website in China and refused to grant the paper any new journalist visas for the following three years.

The China Meltdown

A Sinica Podcast

By Jeremy Goldkorn, Kaiser Kuo & more on January 29, 2016

[—Editors note: this podcast was recorded on January 18, 2016]

With equity markets in free fall, housing prices skipping downwards, foreign reserves plummeting, and industrial production on a road trip back to the last decade, it’s no surprise permabears like Gordan Chang are stocking up on popcorn to bask in what they see as the long-due collapse of the Chinese economy. It all raises the question of how bad things are going to get, which leads to the question of how bad they are right now.

The Trouble with Hong Kong’s Chief Executives

By Denise Y. Ho & Alyssa King on January 28, 2016

On January 14, the trial of Sir Donald Tsang, Hong Kong’s former chief executive who served from 2005 to 2012, was set for January 3 of 2017. This past December, Tsang pleaded not guilty to two counts of misconduct in public office, charges on which he was indicted in October. At issue is an apartment Tsang rented in the Chinese border city of Shenzhen from Bill Wong Chor-bau, a shareholder of the Digital Broadcasting Corporation (DBC), Hong Kong’s biggest broadcaster. At the time of the lease, DBC’s Hong Kong broadcasting license was pending before Tsang’s administration.

Married Young

By Muyi Xiao on January 28, 2016

In certain parts of Yunnan province, in China’s southwest, marriage of boys and girls as young as 13 years old is a common phenomenon, practiced without taboo despite the nation’s rule requiring women to be 20 and men 22 before they marry. Photographer Muyi Xiao traveled to villages where early marriage is commonplace to explore the lives of these young couples and the challenges they face.

Alyssa King

on January 27, 2016

Alyssa King is a Ph.D. candidate in law at Yale University and a resident fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. From 2012 to 2013, she was a lecturer in law at Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen. She served as a summer marshal to Mr. Justice Stock, then Vice President of the Court of Appeal for the High Court in Hong Kong in 2010.

In the United States, King clerked for the Honorable Barrington D. Parker of the Second Circuit and the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Master 2 from L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and an A.B. from Harvard University.