China Blocks Web Access to ‘Under the Dome’ Documentary on Pollution
on March 9, 2015
The drama over the video has ignited speculation over which groups supported it and which sought to kill it.
The Cowboys (and Indians) of Sichuan: Photographers Search for China's Billy the Kid
on March 8, 2015
The people of remote Tagong in the southwestern grasslands resemble the cowboys and Indians of North American history.
Shannon Tiezzi
on March 8, 2015
Shannon Tiezzi writes on China’s foreign relations, domestic politics, and economy for the Asia Pacific news website The Diplomat. She previously served as a research associate at the U.S.-China Policy Foundation, where she hosted the weekly television show China Forum. Tiezzi received her A.M. from Harvard University and her B.A. from The College of William and Mary. She has also studied at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
China’s Maritime Rise Offers Risks, Rewards for U.S. Sailors
on March 8, 2015
There are opportunities to work alongside China's military, but make no mistake, the Middle Kingdom is pushing back.
Sascha Matuszak
on March 6, 2015
Sascha Matuszak is a journalist based out of Chengdu and Minneapolis. He spent more than a decade in China writing about a wide range of topics including the demise of a Sichuan village, kung fu, and martial artists, tea, spy rings, and geopolitics. He is currently focusing on martial arts as a writer for VICE: Fightland and as a producer for the “New Masters” documentary.
His work has been published in VICE, The Economist, Roads and Kingdoms, and the South China Morning Post.
China’s Real Inconvenient Truth: Its Class Divide
on March 6, 2015
Solving China's air and water pollution will require addressing the gap between rich urbanites and rural peasants.
China’s BIG Gamble in the TINY Comoros Islands
A China in Africa Podcast
on March 6, 2015
Comoros is a tiny archipelago nation off the east coast of Africa in the Indian ocean where a major Chinese experiment is underway. Chinese scientists and pharmaceutical have undertaken a radical experiment to test an unlicensed anti-malarial herbal medicine on the entire population of the islands. Succeed or fail, the stakes are incredibly high.
China NPC 2015: The Reports
on March 6, 2015
Downloadable versions of the reports on the Work of the Government (Premier Li Keqiang); the Plan for National Economic and Social Development (NDRC); the Budget Report (Ministry of Finance).
Has the American Media Misjudged China
on March 5, 2015
Thirty-five years after China's opening to the world, some of the key assumptions that have guided coverage are being tested by the presidency of Xi Jinping. This book is must reading for anyone involved in U.S.-Chinese relations or for anyone who is just plain curious about how the assumptions that have guided American media coverage of China are now being challenged by the presidency of Xi Jinping. He has a very different vision of his country's future than the one often presented in some media accounts. —William J. Holstein
