Culture and Society The Shaw Brothers and the Taiwan Film Industry January 24, 2014 0 Written by Ming-Yeh Rawnsley. Movie mogul Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫) passed away on 7 January 2014. Many observers have commented on the Shaw Brothers’ empire…
China Announcing the CPI blog’s Emerging Scholars January 22, 2014 3 Written by Jon Sullivan. I am delighted to introduce another new regular feature on the blog, namely the Emerging Scholar column, written by the following extremely…
China Introducing the CPI’s new line-up of regular contributors January 22, 2014 0 Written by Jon Sullivan. It is almost one year since I started editing the CPI blog. In that time I am very fortunate to have…
China Happy Holidays December 10, 2013 0 Happy Holidays to CPI blog readers wherever you are in the world. The CPI blog will be on break during the winter vacation, resuming regular…
Culture and Society Online counter-hegemonic resistance in China’s Hong Kong November 25, 2013 3 Written by Daniel Garrett. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is well known as a “City of Protests” but fewer are aware that Hongkongers’…
China The Tiananmen crash: what just happened? October 29, 2013 0 Written by Jackie Sheehan. So far little has been said on the record about the crash of a jeep carrying three people into the marble…
China China’s public diplomacy shifts focus: From building hardware to improving software October 24, 2013 0 Written by Ingrid d’Hooghe. China spends more money and effort on developing public diplomacy strategies and instruments than any other country in the world. The…
China Limits of China’s Cultural Diplomacy October 23, 2013 1 Written by Gary Rawnsley. It is not surprising that the government in Beijing has privileged culture and tradition in its soft power strategy as these…
China China’s struggle with soft power October 22, 2013 0 Written by Gary Rawnsley. In 1990, Joseph Nye published Bound to Lead, which first introduced the term Soft Power to the vocabulary of international relations.…