Tag: China

For Hong Kong and Taiwan, neoliberalism’s falling tides made political repression inevitable.

The colonial making of Taiwan’s chip supremacy.

Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

The country’s explosive development has relied on markets—at the cost of earlier ideals.

Founded a century ago, the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly defied predictions of its demise.

Economists lionize the city as the ideal free market, but the social consequences have been disastrous.

Some have praised China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but its suppression of information helped cause the problem in the first place.

Reputational currency, like China's Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading.

Despite the risks, Chinese social media users are beating online censorship.

The effects of revolutionary violence on Chinese poetry.

One of the largest peaceful protest movements in recent world history.

A crosscultural reading group in Beijing.

Charles Kenny's The Upside of Down.

Yu Hua's Boy in the Twilight.

Christian weddings are on the rise in China, even among non-believers. 

The author joins a slew of Chinese tourists hiking a mountain in Tibet.

Some myths about the rise of China and India.

What American conventional wisdom gets wrong.