China's surveillance capabilities are often presented as feats of futuristic technology. But its true advantage lies in human networks of informers and state workers.
20 years after “Shangri-La” was coined in the Western imagination, a Russian adventurer published a memoir from the valley of Lijiang, southwest China, that is...
Netizens on the Chinese internet have been using buzzwords and memes for decades, to express obliquely what they cannot directly. From the “river crab” to...
After decades of urbanization and economic development, a cohort of China's population is seeking rural refuge and personal development instead — moving back to the...
The writer and cultural commentator picks five titles from her shelf, from Henry Kissinger’s transcripts to a Cultural Revolution memoir — and tells us what...
Register now to hear Dan Wang discuss his new book "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future," in which he sets forth a new paradigm to understand the engineering state of China as opposed to the lawyerly society of the United States, in conversation with Julian Gewirtz, a former senior official in the Biden administration.
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