Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
Miemie Winn Byrd on Myanmar’s progress toward democracy: beyond media coverage
Aung San Suu Kyi greeting supporters from Bago State. Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd is a Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. She holds a Doctorate in Education... Read More
Susan Shirk on the contemporary geopolitics of the U.S.-China relationship
Susan Shirk is research professor and chair of the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy. She previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state (1... Read More
Andrew Walder on Mao’s image under Xi
Andrew Walder is the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford Universit... Read More
Alan Romberg on Cross-Strait diplomacy
Alan Romberg is a Distinguished Fellow and the Director of the East Asia program at Stimson. Before joining Stimson in September 2000, he enjoyed a distinguished career working on Asian issues includi... Read More
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