China Accused Of Decade Of Cyber Attacks On Governments And Corporates In Asia
on April 13, 2015
“There’s no smoking gun...,but all signs point to China” Bryce Boland told TechCrunch.
Jeffrey Linn
on April 13, 2015
Jeffrey Linn is an urban planner, designer, and cartographer focused on sustainability and active transportation issues. He currently lives in Seattle.
China’s Island-Building Is Ruining Coral Reefs, Philippines Says
on April 13, 2015
China’s South China Sea neighbors could lose up to $100 million a year because reefs are fish breeding grounds.
China’s March Exports Shrink 15 Percent Year-on-Year in Shock Fall
on April 13, 2015
The tumble could heighten worries about how a rising yuan hurt demand for Chinese goods and services abroad.
Styling It in China
A Sinica Podcast
on April 13, 2015
Sociologist Ben Ross, a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, focuses on Chinese labor migration and related issues. He first got noticed by Sinica in 2007 while writing a blog about working as the only foreign "hair-washing trainee" in a Fuzhou hair salon. Listen to his interview this week with Kaiser and David Moser in Beijing and Jeremy Goldkorn calling in from the U.S.
Datong
on April 13, 2015
Kang Tongbi (played by soprano Louise Kwong), left, and Kang Youwei (played by bass Apollo Wong) in Act I of Datong.
China: What the Uighurs See
on April 13, 2015
Xinjiang is one of those remote places whose frequent mention in the international press stymies true understanding. Home to China’s Uighur minority, this vast region of western China is mostly known for being in a state of permanent low-grade conflict, with terrorist attacks and a ferocious government crackdown, even against moderate Uighur academics.
A New Opera and Hong Kong’s Utopian Legacy
on April 10, 2015
This year, the 43rd annual Hong Kong Arts Festival commissioned a chamber opera in three acts called Datong: The Chinese Utopia. Depicting the life and times of Kang Youwei (1858-1927), a philosopher and reformer of China’s last Qing dynasty, it premiered in the theater of the Hong Kong City Hall, a stone’s throw away from where the Umbrella Movement protests of 2014 demanded universal suffrage and greater democracy.
Julian B. Gewirtz
on April 10, 2015
Julian Gewirtz is an Academy Scholar at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is the author of Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China(Harvard University Press, 2017) and a new book on the tumult and legacies of the 1980s in China (Harvard University Press, 2021).
He previously worked in the Obama Administration, most recently as special advisor for international affairs to the Deputy Secretary of Energy, and was a Fellow in History and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His writing on Asia is published in Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, Harper’s, the Journal of Asian Studies, The New York Times, Past & Present, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Gewirtz received his Doctorate in modern Chinese history in 2018 from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his undergraduate degree in 2013 from Harvard College.
Bury Zhao Ziyang, and Praise Him
on April 10, 2015
Zhao Ziyang, the premier and general secretary of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1980s, died on January 17, 2005. At a tightly controlled ceremony designed to avoid the kind of instability that the deaths of other controversial Chinese leaders had triggered, the CCP cremated his body and placed the ashes in an urn in his family home.
