Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
Andrew Nathan on important trends in China
Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of polit... Read More
Andrew Small on China’s growing economic engagement with Pakistan
Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, which he established in 2006. He was based in GMF’s Brussels office for five yea... Read More
Yunxiang Yan on familialism and individualization in China
A child in Nanjing is pretending to pedal away with a cart carrying his entire family in the back seats. Yunxiang Yan is professor of anthropology and the director of the Center for Chinese Studies, U... Read More
Jean Oi on China’s fiscal dilemma: finding balance between centralization and decentralization
18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China Jean C. Oi is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics in the department of political science and a Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Ins... Read More
Anne Henochowicz on Chinese social media and censorship
Anne Henochowicz was the Translations Editor at China Digital Times from 2011 to 2016. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Postcolonialist, and Foreign Policy. She is an a... Read More
The U.S.-China Olympic rivalry? Not what you think! with George Vecsey
David Robinson of the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team goes up for a shot during a preliminary round game against the team from China during the XXIV Olympic Games George Vecsey has been a journalis... Read More
Richard Bush on Hong Kong’s 2016 elections
Richard Bush is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, holds the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, and is director of its Center for East Asia Policy Studies (CEAP). He also ... Read More
Uncritical thinking in China? Think again! with Scott Rozelle
Students preparing for gaokao. Scott Rozelle holds the Helen Farnsworth Endowed Professorship at Stanford University and is Senior Fellow in the Food Security and Environment Program and the Shorenste... Read More
Phelim Kine on President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial war on drugs in the Philippines
President Rodrigo Duterte holding up and explaining a diagram of a drug trade network as a part of the war on drugs Phelim Kine is a deputy director in Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division. Mr. Kine w... Read More