Federico Pachetti

on April 19, 2016

Federico Pachetti is a Ph.D. candidate in the History department at the University of Hong Kong. His doctoral dissertation explores China’s relations with the United States from 1979 until 1992. Pachetti is interested in the history and foreign relations of the P.R.C., U.S. foreign policy, the global economic history of the 20th century, and contemporary international relations.

A Newly Translated Book Revisits Japan and China’s Wartime History

A Q&A with Author Geling Yan

By Karen Ma on April 19, 2016

Award-winning screenwriter and author Geling Yan has written more than 20 novels and short story collections about China, many adapted to film or TV, including Coming Home and The Flowers of War, both of which became feature films directed by Zhang Yimou. But the novel Little Aunt Crane was one of her most difficult to complete, the seasoned Chinese-American writer admits.

Guobin Yang

on April 19, 2016

Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Center on Digital Culture and Society and serves as Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the author of The Wuhan Lockdown (Columbia University Press, 2022), The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (Columbia University Press, 2016), and The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online: Citizen Activism Online (Columbia University Press, 2009). He is also the editor or co-editor of six books, including Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production (Michigan State University Press, 2021).

Supertall 101

By Roman Mars on April 19, 2016

Starting in the late 1990s, the government of Taipei began looking into how they could turn global attention to their city, the capital of the small island of Taiwan.

The initial idea was to create two 66-story office towers, which would be the tallest in Taiwan’s capital and one of the tallest in the country.

Technology, Urban Life
Architecture, Taipei, Taiwan