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08.25.16
China Analysts Should Talk to Each Other, Not at Each Other
On August 12, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its annual report card on China’s economy and gave the country mixed grades, finding that its “economic transition will continue to be complex, challenging, and potentially bumpy.” In...
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02.11.15China’s Wealthy Parents Are Fed Up With State-Run Education
Foreign Policy
Forget rote memorization and pressure-packed tests—Western, alternative learning is the new rage.
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01.26.15China Communist Party Magazine Blasts Professors Who Spread ‘Western Values’
South China Morning Post
Party journal's commentary targets liberal academics after President Xi Jinping calls for 'ideological guidance' for teachers and students
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02.25.14James Cahill, Influential Authority on Chinese Art, Dies at 87
New York Times
James Cahill was one of the foremost authorities on Chinese art whose interpretations of Chinese painting for the West influenced generations of scholars.
The NYRB China Archive
08.15.13
The Man Who Got It Right
from New York Review of Books
1.Near the beginning of Simon Leys’ marvelous collection of essays is an odd polemic between the author and the late Christopher Hitchens, fought out in these very pages. Leys takes Hitchens to task for attacking Mother Teresa in a book entitled The...
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09.14.12Is China's Global Times Misunderstood?
Diplomat
A growing conviction is taking root in America that Chinese views of the international system are becoming increasingly assertive and nationalistic. One of the prime referents for this contention is the Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao), a hugely...
The NYRB China Archive
03.23.72Who’s Who in China
from New York Review of Books
Written Chinese is extremely difficult. Before the revolutions of the twentieth century, the literary language was a barrier protecting the Confucian elite. Anyone who could jump over that barrier by passing the official examinations immediately...