China

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• 1/19/20
  

  The World is Losing another Historic Generation

  by Robert Mark Spaulding

  We cannot prevent the passing away of China’s last generation from the pre-communist era, but we can do our part in helping to preserve the ancient culture they knew, so that it does not vanish completely with them. 

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• SOURCE: Tokyo Review
  12/30/19
  

  Why Did China Detain a Japanese History Professor?

  The China-related story that most agitated the minds of Japanese academia this fall was undoubtedly the arrest of Iwatani Nobu, a professor of modern Chinese history at Hokkaidō University, detained in early September on suspicion of spying during a trip to Beijing.

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• 12/22/19
  

  China Needs to Change Strategy After Hong Kong Elections

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  With the depth of dissatisfaction in Hong Kong now made patently clear at the ballot box, China and Xi now face a difficult choice. Will it double down on repression or listen to the people and choose a new course that will require some compromise?

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• SOURCE: The Diplomat
  12/2/19
  

  China Releases History Professor, But Travel Concerns Persist

  A recent detention has implications for China-Japan relations.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/2/2019
  

  China Isn’t the Soviet Union. Confusing the Two Is Dangerous.

  by Melvyn P. Leffler

  An unusual confluence of events World War II led to America’s bitter rivalry with the U.S.S.R. That pattern is not repeating.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/20/19
  

  Between the Lines of the Xinjiang Papers

  by James A. Millward

  The Chinese Communist Party is devouring its own and cutting itself off from reality.

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• 12/22/19
  

  Subsidies Can't Solve Farmers' Trade War Losses

  by Jared Levinson

  Subsidies during the Great Depression and in the current trade war. 

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• 11/19/19
  

  Too Important or Too Irrelevant? Why Beijing Hesitates on Hong Kong

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  Two competing narratives possibly explain why Beijing’s authoritarian communist rulers have not so far interfered in the increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong, now six months old and heading into a deadly new phase.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  11/13/19
  

  How we fail our Chinese students

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  If Chinese students spend several years in the United States and decide they don’t like democracy, we must not be making a strong enough case for it.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  October 29, 2019
  

  The Famous, Feuding Siblings Who Helped Shape Modern China

  by Jiayang Fan

  Jung Chang within “Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China” lays out the history of the Soong sisters and how they helped formed the modem Chinese Communist Party.

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• 11/3/19
  

  China and the NBA: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  China's relationship with NBA is one of the great successes in its cultural and commercial relations with the United States, and a powerful example of Sino-American ‘sports diplomacy’.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/26/19
  

  Writer and Historian Jung Chang Profiled in The Atlantic: China’s ‘Most Dangerous Profession’

  Jung Chang is one of the most celebrated chroniclers of modern China. Her life spotlights the threat that writing still holds for the country’s rulers.

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• 10/27/19
  

  1949: A Crucial Year for America, Russia, China and the World

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  It’s valuable to revisit three events of global importance from 70 years ago and reflect on how global events intertwine with personal histories.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/23/19
  

  Why China should recognize that dissent can be patriotic

  by Charlotte Brooks

  History suggests that narrowly defining Chinese identity will backfire.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  10/7/19
  

  The NBA's cowardice on China

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "The NBA just threw Hong Kong under the bus, purely for the sake of the almighty dollar. And if that’s not outrageous, I don’t know what is."

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• SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
  10/4/19
  

  Isaac Stone Fish: Where Do US-China Relations Go Next?

  by Chris Riback

  As the 2020 campaign heats up, several key questions will be asked and debated, including: How did we get here – and where do China and US-China relations go next?

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• 9/22/19
  

  The Long History of Activism Preceding The Hong Kong Democracy Protests

  by Susan Blumberg-Kason

  For the last 100 years, Hong Kong has seen mass protests. They'll only stop when people feel they have a voice in government. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  September 3, 2019
  

  Around the World with Mao Zedong

  by Ian Johnson

  Julia Lovell's "Maoism: A Global History" traces the surprisingly wide influence of Chinese Communism. 

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• 91/1/9
  

  Where Are the Hong Kong Protests Headed?

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  After ten weeks of protest by students and others in Hong Kong the crisis seems to be spiraling toward a tragic climax.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2019
  

  The Forbidden City Opens Wide as China Projects New Pride in Its Past

  President Xi Jinping has pushed “cultural self-confidence” as a signature policy, and one of the beneficiaries has been the former home of emperors, neglected no longer.