TV Presenter Insults Mao at Private Dinner
on April 10, 2015
CCTV is investigating a top presenters after he was caught calling Mao a “son of a bitch” at a private dinner.
Chinese Dreams and the African Renaissance
A China in Africa Podcast
on April 10, 2015
Leaders in both China and Africa have articulated new visions for their respective regions that project a strong sense of confidence, renewal, and a break from once-dominant Western ideologies. In both cases, argues East is Read blogger Mothusi Turner, Chinese and Africans are using these new slogans to define themselves as something other than victims of their colonial pasts.
Stroller Factory, 1999
on April 10, 2015
In 1999, photographer Willem Wernsen spent ten days in the small city of Kengzi, in Guangdong province, about 30 miles northeast of Shenzhen in an industrial zone. This was part of a longer, five-week trip, Wernsen’s first to the People’s Republic. While in Kengzi, his interpreter brought him to a factory that made strollers. The designs and product orders came from AOK, a company in his native Holland. The factory was managed by a firm from Taiwan.
We Traveled Across China and Returned Terrified for the Economy
on April 9, 2015
China’s steel and metals markets, a barometer of the world’s second-biggest economy, are “a lot worse than you think.”
Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema, 1951-1979
on April 9, 2015
A comprehensive history of how the conflicts and balances of power in the Maoist revolutionary campaigns from 1951 to 1979 complicated and diversified the meanings of films, this book offers a discursive study of the development of early PRC cinema. Wang closely investigates how film artists, Communist Party authorities, cultural bureaucrats, critics, and audiences negotiated, competed, and struggled with each other for the power to decide how to use films and how their extensively different, agonistic, and antagonistic power strategies created an ever-changing discursive network of meaning in cinema. —Palgrave Macmillan
Book Review:
Power Play: China’s Ultra High Voltage Technology and Global Standards
on April 9, 2015
As a matter of government policy and corporate strategy, China has been intensifying its effort to set indigenous standards for homegrown ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission technology. The country also aims to contribute to UHV standards internationally. Indeed, this process of standard setting, influenced by both economics and politics, will have ramifications far beyond China’s borders. The potential internationalization of China’s domestic UHV standards will almost certainly affect the global market share for both Chinese manufacturers and dominant multinational companies.This paper explores China’s UHV standardization process and the myriad challenges it faces, from a technical, economic, and political standpoint. But beyond simply detailing China’s strategy in pushing out its own UHV technology to the domestic and international markets, the paper discusses how China’s ambition for its indigenous technology could ultimately pose a considerable challenge to global competitors who hope to sell comparable products. The paper concludes by outlining several potential scenarios for how China’s UHV standardization process, and its relationship to global standard setting, may ultimately evolve.
Organization:
Paulson Institute
Cyber Leninism and the Political Culture of the Chinese Internet
A Sinica Podcast
on April 7, 2015
Kaiser Kuo and David Moser speak with Rogier Creemers, post-doctoral fellow at Oxford with a focus on Chinese Internet governance and author of the China Copyright and Media blog.
Submerged | Taiwan
on April 7, 2015
Taiwain's current population is 23,427,785.
Submerged | Shanghai
on April 7, 2015
The metropolitan area of Shanghai had a resident population of more than 24.15 million in 2013.
Submerged | Qingdao
on April 7, 2015
The combined population living in the area depicted, including Qingdao, Jimo, and Chengyang, is nearly 4 million.