Airpocalypse Now: China’s Tipping Point?
ALEX WANG, ORVILLE SCHELL, ELIZABETH ECONOMY (& authors)The recent run of air pollution in China, we now know, has been worse than the air quality in airport smoking lounges. At its worst, Beijing air quality has approached levels only seen in the United States during wildfires.All of the comparisons to London, Los Angeles, and New...
The Big Enterprise
ORVILLE SCHELLIn days of yore, when a new dynasty was established in China and a new emperor was enthroned, it was known as dashi, “The Big Enterprise,” and it usually involved mass social upheaval and civil war. The latter-day version of changing leaders now takes place at Party...
China on the Verge
JONATHAN D. SPENCEDuring the play-off matches for the intercollegiate East China soccer title in the early 1920s, passions ran high. The president of Shanghai’s prestigious Communications University was no less a soccer fan than anyone else, but he was also a rigorously trained and didactic...