China China’s ambassador scolds the West to flatter Xi January 29, 2020 0 Image Credit: Xi Jinping by Global Panorama/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Joris Teer and Ardi Bouwers. In 2019 China ushered in a new…
China Chess masters and poker players: ways to understand the politics of policy-making in Xinjiang October 23, 2018 0 Written by Nathan Attrill. For the People’s Republic of China (PRC), control over the western provinces has proved a major area of concern for policy-makers at…
China The Politics of “Displaying” China: The British Museum and Modern China July 13, 2018 0 Written by Jennifer Y.J. Hsu. The refurbishment and reopening of the Joseph Hutong Gallery at the British Museum in November 2017, which houses the South…
China The end of China’s term limits and its ‘Peaceful Rise’? April 26, 2018 0 Written by Christopher Primiano. In 2005, Zheng Bijian, a leading PRC intellectual, advanced the notion of China’s peaceful rise. This was designed to calm those who…
Belt and Road Initiative The Domestic Drive behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative June 7, 2017 2 Written by Andrea Ghiselli. Every country's foreign policy, especially the big ones noted Edward Luttwak, is the result of the goals its leaders want to…
China Is Chairman Xi taking China back to the Cultural Revolution? April 4, 2016 0 Written by Jackie Sheehan. Before considering today’s parallels with the Cultural Revolution, first let’s deal with the characterization of China’s current leader as Xi Zedong, or…
China The End of “Reform and Opening”?: New Political Paradigms and China’s Future. March 21, 2016 0 Written by Matthew Johnson. If the narrative of “reforming and opening” China has run its course, what new narrative will replace it? The past week…
International Relations The Cultural Messages of a Rising China December 2, 2015 0 Written by Tongdong Bai. In spite of Chinese leaders’ effort to reassure the world about China’s intentions, much of the rest of the world is…
China-Italy The Italian Left and the question of Italy-PRC relations in the 1950’-early 1960s October 30, 2015 0 Written by Guido Samarani. In the 1950s and early 1960s the Italian Communist Party (ICP) was one of the main actors (together with the Italian…
China A Decade of Blogging in China August 31, 2015 0 Written by Giorgio Strafella and Daria Berg. The effects of blogging and Internet use on Chinese politics and society have been a hotly debated topic…
