China’s Exhausted Pediatricians | Caixin

on June 26, 2018

The number of pediatricians in China can’t keep up with the overwhelming demand for pediatric care. Overworked and underpaid, doctors and nurses in pediatrics departments are often exhausted. Caixin photographers Xia Weicong and Cai Yingli followed a pediatrician named Li Long and a nurse named Ju Wenqian, documenting their long workday. In the photos, we get to see not only their challenging work conditions, but also how the subjects cope with their physically and mentally demanding jobs.

When They Tore Down the Schools | Caixin

on June 26, 2018

As part of a national campaign to recover farmland, local authorities demolished more than 50 private schools in Zhoukou, a city in China’s Henan province. Amid rapid economic growth, unapproved building on farmland has boomed in Zhoukou over the past decade. For years, local authorities were content to levy fees, taxes and fines for these violations of building rules. Now, as the central government pushes them to reclaim farmland, they are racing to make amends.

Pointing in a New Direction | Caixin

on June 26, 2018

Liang Yingfei follows aspiring ballet students in Duan village, in the newly established district of Xiong’an, Hebei Province, as they compete for spots at vocational high schools to further their education. Their parents and ballet teachers hope that dancing will give them alternatives to farming and migrant work which are the typical employment choices for rural children.

In Xinjiang, Learning from the Snow | Sixth Tone

on June 26, 2018

These photographs of winterscapes, taken by Sixth Tone photographer Wu Huiyuan in early March when he traveled with a group of scientists to Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, appear to capture a winter wonderland. In fact, the region, which is also known as the “Water Tower of Central Asia,” has seen above average snowfall and accelerated glacial melting in recent years.

Feng Keli’s “Old Photos” | Sixth Tone

on June 26, 2018

For 22 years, Feng Keli edited Old Photos, a series of Chinese photography books. Sixth Tone published several excerpts this past Spring. Each of the articles presents a curated group of photographs along with a deep reading of the photos. Feng analyzes their technical aspects, composition, and historical context. He has an eye for photographs that break with the customs or traditions of the day.

Should the U.S. Start a Trade War with China over Tech?

A ChinaFile Conversation

By Jack Zhang, Graham Webster & more on June 26, 2018

At an already volatile moment in the United States’ trade relationship with China, the Treasury Department appears to be planning new restrictions on Chinese investment into what the White House calls “industrially significant technology” in the U.S. How should the U.S. government address the industrial policy challenges posed by Chinese techno-nationalism? Is it a threat to U.S. security? Is a contest for technological dominance between the United States and China inevitable?

Elsa Kania

on June 25, 2018

Elsa B. Kania is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. Her research focuses on China’s military strategy, defense innovation, and emerging technologies. Kania is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's Department of Government. Her book, Fighting to Innovate, is forthcoming with the Naval Institute Press in 2022.

Kania was a 2018 Fulbright Specialist with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre and has been named an official “Mad Scientist” by the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command. She is a graduate of Harvard College and was a Boren Scholar in Beijing, China.

Jack Zhang

on June 25, 2018

Jack Zhang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. His dissertation explores the role of economic interdependence in the political economy of trade and conflict in East Asia. His research focuses on international political economy, international security, Chinese politics, and U.S.-China Relations. He was previously a China researcher at the Eurasia Group in Washington, DC. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego

Rush Doshi

on June 25, 2018

Rush Doshi is a Ph.D. candidate and Raymond Vernon Fellow in Harvard’s doctoral program in Government. 

He is also Special Advisor to the CEO of the Asia Group, Research Director for the McCain Institute Kissinger Fellowship Series on U.S.-China Relations, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Doshi’s research focuses on Chinese and Indian security policy and he is proficient in Mandarin and Hindi. His doctoral research uses authoritative Mandarin-language primary sources to investigate whether China has had a post-Cold War grand strategy coordinated across military, political, and economic instruments. 

Doshi’s research has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and The Washington Post, among other publications. Previously, he was a member of the Asia Policy Working Group for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, an analyst at Long Term Strategy Group, an analyst at Rock Creek Global Advisors, and an Arthur Liman Fellow at the Department of State. He was previously a Fulbright Fellow in Yunnan, China for one year. He received his M.A. from Harvard University in Government and his B.A. from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School (summa cum laude) with a minor in East Asian Studies.