The global battle among the three dominant digital powers—the United States, China, and the European Union—is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a […]
In 2019, when the Italian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Italy was – and still is – the only member of […]
Next week China holds its 3rd Belt and Road Forum, celebrating the initiative’s 10th anniversary. We take this as an opportunity to have a closer look at China's huge infrastructure project […]
The past is a battleground in many countries, but in China it is crucial to political power. In traditional China, dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that […]
A talk by Jude Blanchette, who holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The talk will focus on: the upcoming Xi-Biden […]
On the Edge is highly interdisciplinary, fusing digital media, art history, literary criticism, and performance studies with citizenship, protest, and labor studies. It makes both the distinctive Chinese experience and the […]
Join us on November 9th, for Decoding Chinese Elite Politics: a talk from the renowned scholar of elite Chinese politics, Joseph Torigian. Torigian is an assistant professor at the School of International […]
Jesse Appell came to China as a Fulbright scholar, apprenticing to Master Xiangsheng performer Ding Guangquan and becoming a mainstay of the Chinese comedy community. He has written and performed […]
News about the Chinese economy isn’t getting any better. The housing crisis is only getting worse, consumers don’t spend as the government hoped for, and exports are still sluggish. Furthermore, […]
North Korean experts Chad O’Carroll and Colin Zeirko will help Club members understand what to expect for the Korean Peninsula in 2024 and calibrate the various different scenarios and hypotheses […]
Online visibility has been increasingly weaponized to cause individuals' "social death" (unrepairable damage to one's reputation within a community/society) when perceived transgression or offense is committed. This trend is illustrated […]
In the talk, Olivia Cheung will present the main findings of The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, the new book she co-authored with Steve Tsang for Oxford University Press. She will […]