Involution and Lying Flat — The challenges for China’s young generation
While young people around the world face growing difficulties finding work and coping with the cost-of-living crisis, the situation confronting China’s youth seems particularly acute. Years of pandemi...
14 Nov 202517min
Trade War Truce — and a Five Year Plan
China and the US reached a truce in their trade war at the recent meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in South Korea. And the two leaders even pledged to visit each other’s countries next year...
3 Nov 202530min
Translating China — Prizes, pressures and prospects for Chinese literature today
The inaugural US-based Baifang Schell Book Prize for Chinese language fiction in English translation was recently awarded to the Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi’s novel 'Taiwan Travelogue'. And with a...
16 Okt 202545min
Innovation in China — After the 'DeepSeek moment'
After the sudden emergence of the Chinese company DeepSeek’s generative AI model in January, there has been much excitement about the future of innovation in China. But continuing US efforts to limit ...
3 Okt 202539min
China, the US and WWII — Wartime memories and contemporary resonances
This month’s huge parade in Beijing for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Asia prompted much debate — both about the array of new missiles, drones and other military technology on dis...
18 Sep 202547min
After the Dalai Lama — China, India and the Tibetan Succession
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, marked his 90th birthday earlier this month with an announcement that his successor as Tibetan Buddhism’s most senior religious figure would b...
15 Juli 202538min
Left-Behind Men and Rebellious Women — Dating, Relationships and the Gender Imbalance in China
China's one child policy may have ended a decade ago — but its consequences are still being felt — not least in the continuing gender imbalance in the country's population: for several decades, the ...
17 Juni 202535min
