Business Migrant children in China: Identity and Stigma October 16, 2015 0 Written by Mingchao Zhou. Established in the 1950s, the hukou system still controls and regulates the settlement of rural migrants in cities. Children of people…
China China’s Imperial Past and Present September 28, 2015 0 Written by Jon Chappell. Outside observers might raise an eyebrow when told that debates among American scholars about China’s eighteenth century development could lead to…
China International engagement in China’s human rights: keeping the faith September 10, 2015 0 Written by Titus Chen. July 2015 is destined to be an unforgettable time in Xi Jinping’s presidency. What befell Chinese human rights lawyers during that…
China Yasukuni Shrine and Japan’s War Responsibility September 8, 2015 1 Written by Akiko Takenaka. Yasukuni Shrine, where the military-related dead of modern Japan are memorialized, remains one of the main focal points in the international…
China From Cairo to Chongqing: Global vs. Local Histories of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the PRC August 21, 2015 0 Written by Adam Cathcart and Wankun Li. Urged on by Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its arts, scholarship, and regional bureaucracies have gone…
China Misreading Chinese History July 30, 2015 1 Written by David E. Mungello. An image from the past sometimes becomes embedded in our minds and becomes an emblem, a picture expressing an allegory…
China Why Chopsticks? Their Origin and Development in Asian Culinary Culture July 29, 2015 0 Written by Q. Edward Wang. Chopsticks are ubiquitous in Asia. They are so essential for one’s daily life in the region, or the “chopsticks cultural sphere”…
China Fashion and Politics: Promoting ‘Designed in China’ through Political Power July 23, 2015 0 By Christine Tsui. In 2012, the Chinese president Xi Jinping initiated an anti-corruption campaign. Although there is no explicit evidence that this was an intentional outcome at which…
Business Chinese Characteristics: The Next Big (Export) Thing? July 21, 2015 0 Written by John Hartley. In my research field of Cultural Science, the role of ‘we’ and ‘they’ groups in organising knowledge is seen as crucial. Knowledge…
Business Shanghai Tang: China’s Aspiring Global Fashion Brand July 20, 2015 0 Written by Jonathan Schroeder, Janet Borgerson, and Zhiyan Wu. How do Chinese brands draw upon what we call 'Chinese brand culture' in order to create distinctively Chinese fashion?…
