Chinese Tourists Encouraged to Behave Ahead of Mass Vacation
on September 28, 2016
Public urination and defacing monuments are no-nos
Li Keqiang Becomes First Chinese Premier to Visit Cuba
on September 28, 2016
The world’s largest and smallest communist states have had stable relations for years.
Blow-By-Blow Account of the China-Singapore Spat Over South China Sea Report
on September 28, 2016
North Korea and The South China Sea: What’s Next?
A China in the World Podcast
on September 28, 2016
Given the increasingly complex security environment in the Asia-Pacific, it is critical for the United States and China to deepen cooperation on promoting regional stability. In this podcast, Paul Haenle and Admiral Gary Roughead, former Chief of Naval Operations and one of only two admirals to have commanded both the Pacific and Atlantic fleets, examine U.S.-China military relations, potential U.S. policy responses to the tribunal ruling in the South China Sea, and North Korea’s latest nuclear and ballistic missile tests.
Gary Roughead
on September 28, 2016
Gary Roughead is the former Chief of Naval Operations in the U.S. Navy. He retired in 2011 after 38 years of service and is one of only two admirals to have commanded both the Pacific and Atlantic fleets.
Josh Feola
on September 27, 2016
Josh Feola is a writer and musician based in Beijing. He has organized music, art, and film events in the city since 2010, via his label pangbianr and as a booking manager for live music venues D-22 and XP. His ongoing event series include the Sally Can’t Dance experimental music festival and the Beijing Electronic Music Encounter (BEME).
Feola writes regularly about music and art for publications including The Wire, LEAP, Tiny Mix Tapes, Sixth Tone, Douban Music, and Time Out Beijing. He also co-authors the Gulou View opinion column for The New York Observer.
As a musician, Feola formerly played drums in the Beijing band Chui Wan, recording on and touring behind their debut album, White Night. He currently plays drums in SUBS and Vagus Nerve, and also records and performs under the name Charm.
Fan Yang
on September 27, 2016
Fan Yang joined the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies in 2011. Her research and teaching interests include cultural studies and globalization, media and communication in modern and contemporary China, urbanism and urban communication, and visual culture. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Asian Studies program, and serves on the Global Studies Coordinating Committee.
Yang is the author of Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2015). Her new project, tentatively titled “Chimerica: A Transnational Cultural Production,” examines the imaginary fusion of China and America in a growing number of transnational media artifacts. Yang’s work has appeared in Theory, Culture & Society; New Media & Society; Quarterly Review of Film and Video; antiTHESIS; Flow TV; and Public.
Yang obtained her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies in 2011 from George Mason University, where she was the recipient of a High Potential Fellowship. She also holds an M.A. from Ohio State University and a B.A. from Fudan University, Shanghai.
The Perils of Translating a Classic Novel from the Chinese Page to the American Stage
on September 27, 2016
Welcome to my dream,” says a Chinese monk pacing along the stage of the San Francisco Opera. So begins Dream of the Red Chamber, a new opera based on the classic Chinese novel of the same name. Its central story is a love triangle framed as Buddhist parable: the monk warns a celestial stone and flower to avoid the entanglements of reincarnation in the mortal world.
Fakes, Pirates, and Shanzhai Culture
A Sinica Podcast
on September 27, 2016
Fakes, knockoffs, pirate goods, counterfeits: China is notorious as the global manufacturing center of all things ersatz. But in the first decade after the People’s Republic joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, a particular kind of knockoff began to capture the public imagination: products that imitate but do not completely replicate the designs, functions, technology, logos, and names of existing branded products.
What Do Zambians Really Think of Chinese Immigrants?
A China in Africa Podcast
on September 27, 2016
For decades, Zambia had been the flash point of anti-Chinese sentiment in Africa. Late president and outspoken opposition leader Michael Sata was unrivaled in his seething criticisms of both China and the Chinese who had migrated to his country.
