Asia Blog
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Asia Blog features the best of Asia Society's global programming and expertise from our 12 worldwide locations, as well as news and views from across the continent. Showcasing exclusive contributions from our network of Fellows and Associate Fellows, Asia Blog is your daily source of insight and analysis on Asian arts, culture, politics, and business.
Last Updated: December 20, 2016
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06.21.17
American Universities in China: Free Speech Bastions or Threats to Academic Freedom?
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In 1986, Johns Hopkins University opened a study center in Nanjing University, making it the first American institution of higher education allowed to establish a physical presence in China during the Communist era. Since then, dozens of other...
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12.09.16
U.S.-China Relations As a Cycle of ‘Rapturous Enchantment’ and ‘Deep Disappointment’
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In 1872, China’s imperial government began sending teenage boys to the United States to study science and technology. After a series of “humiliating” military defeats at the hands of technologically superior foreign powers, China’s leaders realized...
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03.15.16
Taiwan’s New Direction
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In January, Taiwan’s voters handed the traditionally pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) a landslide victory, giving it control of both the parliament and presidency for the first time ever. The victory came at the expense of the...
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01.29.16
‘I Don't Want to Think About Activating Change’
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In 2012, The New York Times published a groundbreaking investigative report showing that the family of Wen Jiabao, China’s then-prime minister, possessed wealth in excess of $2.7 billion. In response, the Chinese government blocked the Times’...
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12.22.15
‘New Yorker’ Writers Reflect on ‘Extreme’ Reporting About China
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While international reporting on China has improved by leaps and bounds since foreign journalists first started trickling into the country in the 1970s, major challenges remain in giving readers back home a balanced image. That was the message from...
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09.03.15
Who Is Xi Jinping? Introducing the Asia Society Podcast
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Three years after Xi Jinping took control of China’s Communist Party and assumed the country’s leadership, he has emerged as one of the world’s most powerful people. But his tenure has also raised uncomfortable questions. Is he a reformer bent on...
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04.14.15
Henry Paulson: ‘Dealing with China’
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Speaking at Asia Society New York on April 13 with New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson explained that it’s impossible to predict the timing or magnitude of a financial crisis, but any country with...
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09.03.1330-Year Throwback: What Fodor’s Was Saying About China Three Decades Ago
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When asked to give examples of China's transformation over the last three decades, you may first be tempted to cite year-to-year G.D.P. growth figures. Yet in 2013, we may also find some of these answers tucked inside a Fodor's...
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04.12.13The Five Biggest Challenges To Doing Business In China
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“As business people, our goal is to reduce complexity,” Kent Kedl said. “We want to reduce risk by understanding the complexity and then packaging it up so we can identify it. China resists that at every turn.”
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02.14.13Chinese Netizens Liked Seeing Partisanship at State of the Union
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The partisan dissonance exhibited at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address was a sight for sore eyes for some users on Sina Weibo, China’s microblogging platform.
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07.05.12Peter Hessler on His Surprising First Trip to China
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I first went to China in 1994, after finishing two years of graduate school at Oxford. I had studied English language and literature, which I enjoyed, but I realized that I wanted to do something different with my career. I knew that I wanted to...