Yale Demonstration, 2, November 28, 2022
on December 12, 2022
A crowd gathers for a vigil at Yale University in support of demonstrations in China, November 28, 2022
Yale Demonstration, November 28, 2022
on December 12, 2022
A sign reads “Freedom for China,” amidst candles, flowers, and blank sheets of paper, at a vigil at Yale University in support of demonstrations in China, November 28, 2022.
U.S.-China Relations after the U.S. Midterms
A China in the World Podcast
on December 5, 2022
Amid the war in Ukraine, the Biden administration has maintained focus on China and enjoyed robust bipartisan support for pursuing a tough approach to Beijing. Recent U.S. export controls on semiconductors and related chip manufacturing equipment have raised the stakes of U.S.-China competition, and many in China now feel as though the United States is seeking to slow China’s rise. Beijing, for its part, is not backing down from U.S. pressure. Unprecedented military drills around Taiwan after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei roiled bilateral ties. How might the U.S. midterm elections impact Biden’s China policy? Will Beijing amend its approach toward Washington after the 20th Party Congress?
Jiang Zemin, 1926-2022
A ChinaFile Conversation
on December 2, 2022
Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin died on Wednesday at the age of 96, shortly after anger about the zero-COVID policy had boiled over into a wave of protest last weekend. Jiang took the country through the boom years of the 1990s, a time now remembered fondly amid political crackdowns, economic slowdown, and zero-COVID frustrations. A wave of mourning broke out online—but was it a celebration of the sharp-tongued Jiang, known for his love of jokes and opera, or an implicit rebuke to the current leadership? We asked ChinaFile contributors for their thoughts on Jiang’s legacy, and on the significance of official and unofficial remembrance.
Joseph Torigian
on December 1, 2022
Joseph Torigian is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington and a Global Fellow in the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program. Previously, he was a Visiting Fellow at the China in the World Program at Australian National University, a Stanton Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton-Harvard’s China and the World Program, a Postdoctoral (and Predoctoral) Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), a Predoctoral Fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, an IREX scholar affiliated with the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and a Fulbright Scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai. His new book, Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao was recently released with Yale University Press, and he has a forthcoming biography on Xi Jinping’s father with Stanford University Press.
Julia Lovell
on December 1, 2022
Julia Lovell is Professor of Modern China at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her most recent book, Maoism: A Global History (Bodley Head, 2019), won the Cundill History Prize; her previous book, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China (Picador, 2011) won the Jan Michalski Prize. Her several translations of modern Chinese fiction into English include Monkey King: Journey to the West and The Real Story of Ah Q, and other Tales of China (Penguin Classics, 2010). She writes about China for several newspapers, including The Guardian, The Financial Times, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.