Trump’s Misleading Comparison of the U.S. and Chinese Economies
on October 21, 2016
Emerging markets run faster than advanced economies because of the rule of diminishing returns
China’s Local Governments Are Getting Into Venture Capital
on October 21, 2016
China’s next billion-dollar startup could have backing from an investor with more money than Warren Buffett and a knack for promoting spicy duck-neck delicacies
The Consequences of the One-Child Policy Will Be Felt for Generations
A Sinica Podcast
on October 20, 2016
The first day of 2016 marked the official end of China’s one-child policy, one of the most controversial and draconian approaches to population management in human history. The rules have not been abolished but modified, allowing all married Chinese couples to have two children. However, the change may have come too late to address the negative ways the policy has shaped the country’s demographics and the lives of its citizens for decades to come.
Zhang Baohui
on October 20, 2016
Zhang Baohui is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Asian Pacific Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is the author of China’s Assertive Nuclear Posture: State Security in an Anarchic International Order (Routledge, 2015), which uses structural realism to study China’s nuclear posture and Sino-U.S. strategic stability.
Bilingual Quran
on October 20, 2016
A bilingual Quran in the library of a mosque on the outskirts of Lanzhou, Gansu province. The library is privately funded and stocked with Qurans and exegetical books, as well as a row of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels volumes, donated by the government and kept on the bottom shelf.
The Menhuan
on October 20, 2016
A Hui man walks into one of the largest Sufi mosques in Lanzhou.
Eid al-Fitr, Beijing
on October 20, 2016
A Hui Muslim woman arrives for Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the historic Niujie Mosque, Beijing, July 6, 2016.
Alice Y. Su
on October 20, 2016
Alice Su is a journalist currently based between Beijing and Tehran. Her work focuses on refugees, religion, China, and the Middle East. She won the United Nations Correspondents Association’s Elizabeth Neuffer Award in 2014 for her work on the protracted refugee crises in Jordan and Lebanon, and was a Livingston Award finalist in 2016 for her work on youth extremism in Jordan and Tunisia. Su is a graduate of Princeton University and a Master’s candidate at the Yenching Academy of Peking University.
Imam Ma Jun
on October 20, 2016
Imam Ma Jun, leading Friday morning prayer at the Xiguan mosque.
Minaret of a Gedimu
on October 20, 2016
The Chinese-style minaret of a Gedimu mosque is seen through an Arabic-style latticed window in Lanzhou, Gansu.
