China China: (not) talking about a revolution May 17, 2016 0 Written by Mark Beeson. Fifty years ago on May 16 the Cultural Revolution began. Don’t expect this event to be given much attention in China…
China The true nature of Xi Jinping’s power February 25, 2016 2 Written by Kerry Brown. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was fond of using a simple drawing of what he called a `duck-rabbit’. From one angle, it…
China-Italy Mao’s China as a market for Western Europe? PRC early economic exchanges and implications for the international economy October 23, 2015 0 Written by Valeria Zanier. It was widely known by analysts during the Cold War that business across the two sides of the Iron Curtain was quite…
China The secret Maoist Chinese operation that conquered malaria – and won a Nobel October 16, 2015 0 Written by Jia-Chen Fu. At the height of the Cultural Revolution, Project 523 – a covert operation launched by the Chinese government and headed by…
China On “Who is Xi Dada?” October 5, 2015 0 Written by Anne-Marie Brady. A few days before Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping arrived in the USA last week, People's Daily released a…
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 Is the ‘China Model’ Challenge to Liberal Democracy Historically-Grounded? May 13, 2015 0 Written by Niv Horesh. “…democracy existed for about 200 years in the ancient world and has existed for about 200 years in the modern world,…
China Chinese Propaganda in Historical Perspective: Five terms to consider May 11, 2015 2 Written by Timothy Cheek. In August 2013 Xi Jinping declared a propaganda war on independent political criticism on China’s internet, especially the popular domestic weibo microblogging…
Politics Why China’s Xi Jinping Is Still Far From Chairman Mao Status February 20, 2015 0 Written by Steve Tsang. Much has been written in recent weeks of how Chinese president Xi Jinping has established himself as China’s most powerful leader since Deng…
