China Cares Little for Other Countries’ Territorial Claims
on May 30, 2015
Beijing’s actions in building man-made islands in the South China Sea are motivated by a desire to impose its sovereignty.
Did the Game Just Change in the South China Sea? (And What Should the U.S. Do About It?)
A ChinaFile Conversation
on May 29, 2015
As the 14th annual Asia Security Summit—or the Shangri-La Dialogue, as it has come to be known—gets underway in Singapore, we asked contributors to comment on what appears to be a recent escalation in tensions between the U.S. and China over the two countries’ presence in the South China Sea. —The Editors.
Andrew S. Erickson
on May 29, 2015
Andrew S. Erickson is a Professor of Strategy in, and a core founding member of, the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute. He serves on the Naval War College Review’s Editorial Board. He is an Associate in Research at Harvard University’s John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and an expert contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report. Erickson is the author of Chinese Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Development (Jamestown Foundation, 2013). He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Erickson is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2012, the National Bureau of Asian Research awarded him the inaugural Ellis Joffe Prize for P.L.A. Studies. During the academic year 2010-11, Erickson was a Fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program in residence at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies. From 2008-11, he was a Fellow in the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program, and he served as a scholar escort on a five-Member Congressional trip to China. He has also helped escort the Commander of China’s Navy and his delegation on a visit to Harvard, and he worked to help establish a bilateral naval officer exchange program. Erickson co-founded the blog China SignPost and also blogs at andrewerickson.com.
Is the Shanghai Stock Market Bubble Finally Bursting?
on May 29, 2015
A customer strolls into a bookstore, goes the popular Chinese joke, and tells the salesperson: “I’m looking for a book with no killers, but much bloodshed; with no love, but great regret; with no spies, but constant paranoia. Can you make a recommendation?” Just one, the salesperson replies: The State of the Chinese Stock Market.
Chinese Posters Warn of the Dangers of Smog
on May 28, 2015
Yanmei Xie
on May 28, 2015
Yanmei Xie is China Policy Analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, a financial research and consulting firm. She focuses on China's politics, political economy and foreign policy. Previously, she was International Crisis Group’s Senior China Analyst, and worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., for C-SPAN, the Capitol News Connection, Fox News, and the McGraw Hill Co. Before moving to the United States, Xie was an international news producer at China Central Television.
Andrew G. Walder
on May 28, 2015
Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Previously, he served as Chair of the Department of Sociology, as Director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, and as Director of the Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
A political sociologist, Walder has long specialized on the sources of conflict, stability, and change in communist regimes and their successor states. His publications on China have ranged from the political and economic organization of the Mao era to changing patterns of stratification, social mobility, and political conflict in the post-Mao era. Another focus of his research has been on the political economy of Soviet-type economies and their subsequent reform and restructuring. His current research focuses on popular political mobilization in late-1960s China and the subsequent collapse and rebuilding of the Chinese party-state.
Walder joined the Stanford faculty in the fall of 1997. He received his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Michigan in 1981 and taught at Columbia University before moving to Harvard in 1987. As a professor of sociology, he served as Chair of Harvard’s M.A. Program on Regional Studies-East Asia for several years. From 1995 to 1997, he headed the Division of Social Sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From 1996 to 2006, as a member of the Hong Kong Government’s Research Grants Council, he chaired its Panel on the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business Studies.
His recent publications include “Transitions from State Socialism: A Property Rights Perspective,” in The Sociology of Economic Life, edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg (Westview Press, 2011); Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement (Harvard University Press, 2009); The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, edited with Joseph Esherick and Paul Pickowicz (Stanford University Press, 2006); “Revolution, Reform, and Status Inheritance: Urban China, 1949-1996” (with Songhua Hu), in the American Journal of Sociology (2009); “Ownership, Organization, and Income Inequality: Market Transition in Rural Vietnam” (with Giang Hoang Nguyen) in the American Sociological Review (2008); “Ambiguity and Choice in Political Movements: The Origins of Beijing Red Guard Factionalism,” in the American Journal of Sociology (2006); “From Control to Ownership: China’s Managerial Revolution,” in Management and Organizations Review (2009); and “Political Sociology and Social Movements,” in Annual Review of Sociology (2009).
His latest book, China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed, was published by Harvard University Press in May 2015.
What China’s Lack of Transparency Means for U.S. Policy
on May 28, 2015
I am a political scientist and former diplomat who has studied China for more than forty years, and yet I still can’t answer some of my students’ most basic questions about China’s policy-making process. Where—in which institutional arena and at what level—are various policy issues deliberated and adopted? Which matters are decided by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and which by the government? What role does the People’s Liberation Army play in foreign policy?
Chinese Racist Views Towards Blacks and Africans
A China in Africa Podcast
on May 27, 2015
When riots broke out in the U.S. city of Baltimore in May 2015, the reaction across the Chinese social web was sadly predictable as Internet users posted countless anti-black racist comments. However, what was interesting about their posts is how there is seemingly a growing conflation of African-Americans and African migrants in the minds of Chinese netizens. Now that China is home to tens of thousands of African immigrants, those racist comments morphed into xenophobia.
