Zhang Xiaoran is U.S.-China Dialogue Fellow with Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, where she works on the U.S.-China Dialogue project and on Chinese social media outreach. She holds a B.A. from Peking University, where she concentrated in Chinese Literature and Film, and an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. Zhang spent a winter doing volunteer work in a charity school in India, and previously interned at Sanlian Life Week, a Mainland Chinese magazine.
Last Updated: June 2, 2015
Media
01.06.16
Is it Too Late for a ‘Two-Child Policy’?
from U.S.-China Dialogue
As of January 1, all married couples in China are now allowed to have a second child without penalty. When, in October, word spread that China’s government would end its longstanding one-child policy, Xiaoran Zhang posed the following questions to a...
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06.02.15
Top Chinese Authors Show Up at Book Expo, but Where Are the Readers?
Last week, 20,000 publishers convened in New York’s Javits Center for BookExpo America (BEA), the publishing industry’s annual trade show. Among their ranks was a delegation from China 500 strong, attending the convention in the capacity of “guest...
Media
10.03.14
Under Different Umbrellas
“Dozens of mainlanders were taken away by the police because they openly supported Occupy Central and at least ten of them have been detained…They are in Jiangxi, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, etc,” Hong Kong-based blogger and...
Culture
02.21.14
Stranger Than Fiction
In the short twenty years since Yu Hua, a fifty-three-year-old former dentist, has been writing, China has undergone change enough for many lifetimes. His country’s transformations and what they leave in their wake have become the central theme of...
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04.26.13
Making a Show of the News?
In what seemed like a flash on April 20, Chinese netizens dubbed TV reporter Chen Ying “the most beautiful bride” on China’s Internet. It was the day of her wedding but a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Ya’an in Sichuan province and Chen didn’t bother...
Infographics
04.09.13
China, North Korea, and Nuclear Arms
As tensions again escalate on the Korean Peninsula, ChinaFile examines more than a decade of developments in North Korea’s nuclear armaments program.
We begin our timeline in late 2002, when China first joined diplomatic discussions, paving the...
Media
03.05.13
What Do You Know About China’s Politics?
The Liang Hui or “Two Sessions”—the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—are the most crowded, most covered, and probably most hilarious annual political events in China. Every March,...
Media
02.22.13
Complaints, Nationalism, and Spoofs
This week, United States government and American media charges of Chinese cyberattacks have led to a variety of responses from netizens across China. On February 19, a CNN camera crew tried to shoot video of the twelve-story military-owned building...
Media
02.15.13
Free Coffee for North Korea?
What should China do to persuade its moody ally North Korea to comply with international restrictions on its nuclear ambitions?“Free conference rooms, free coffee, free soft drinks and dessert,” was the surprising and quickly viral Internet...