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‘Thunder Out of China’: One of the most popular WWII books of all time
Annalee Jacoby and Teddy White were in their early twenties — yet already accomplished war correspondents — when they arrived in Chongqing. Their reportage from China's wartime capital was immediately popular with the reading public, and has largely withstood the test of time.
Queer cinema in Hong Kong, before and after 1997: Q&A with Helen Hok-Sze Leung
The Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival has returned after three years of pandemic-enforced restrictions and virtual programs. On this occasion, we recently spoke to Helen Hok-Sze Leung, an expert on queer cinema and Hong Kong culture.
The origins of World War II in Asia
The Mukden Incident — when explosives detonated along the route of the South Manchurian Railway near Shenyang — was a pretext for Japanese aggression in Asia. The events of that Friday night are underwhelming, almost ridiculous, in the context of what they sparked.
My bosses made a bet that I would quit. I haven’t…yet.
China’s youth unemployment rate is soaring, and competition for good jobs is fiercer than ever. At the same time, young people are choosing to exit the rat race, jump between jobs, or quit working altogether. What gives?
Business and technology
This is the state of generative AI in China
Chinese tech companies are racing to create and monetize the type of artificial intelligence known as “generative AI,” which ChatGPT recently made famous.
Advanced packaging is the frontier of semiconductor technology, and TSMC is in the lead
It’s becoming difficult to make microchips smaller, so the encasing around them is where advanced tech is going. TSMC's advanced packaging technology has emerged as a game-changer, with repercussions extending far beyond circuitry for U.S.-Taiwan relations.
China leads the world in green energy, but it just can’t stop emitting greenhouse gasses
China is the world’s largest renewables generator and has cleaned the air in many cities, but it remains the world’s largest polluter, is addicted to coal, and is wasting solar panels on a massive scale.
A brief guide to China’s complicated green hydrogen industry
Made without any carbon emissions, green hydrogen can play an important role in cleaning up dirty industries like coal and steel. Beijing’s hands-off approach has motivated local governments, SOEs, and the private sector to take the reins, but results so far are mixed.
China’s war on drugs: From incarceration to rehabilitation
In the 1990s, China’s inability to contain its relatively modest drug epidemic put it on the same road as America's failed war on drugs. But then, the number of new users in China began to drop dramatically…
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The Significance of Xi Jinping’s Shake-Up in China’s Rocket Force Leadership | The Signal with Lizzi Lee
This week on Live with Lizzi Lee, Dr. Joel Wuthnow, a senior research fellow in the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs within the Institute for National Strategic Studies at NDU, shares his thoughts on the significance of Xi Jinping's shake-up in China's rocket force leadership.
Society and culture
Pro wrestling in China is ready for its comeback
The short but eventful history of China wrestling is filled with highs and lows. For a while, rival promoters dreamed of building the WWE of China, but money dried out and then COVID nearly killed the industry. Those who are still kicking — a motley crew of professionals, hobbyists, lifers, dreamers, and realists — are now working together to rebuild this thing they love.
Meet the woman who launched Taiwan’s MeToo movement, Chen Chien-Jou
"I knew before I came forward that I was definitely not alone in being a survivor, there must be others out there."
The battle against amnesia
For most of her life, Wang Youqin has strived to document victims of the Cultural Revolution, telling their stories without sentimentality or — in many cases, when the victims were also perpetrators of violence — remorse. For the first time, her work is now available in English.
How George Soros became China’s perfect nemesis
George Soros saw potential for political transformation in China's expanding economy in the 1980s. Under Xi Jinping, the PRC has become anathema to everything he stands for.
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The United States’ China-centered existential crisis
This week on Sinica Jude Blanchette joins to talk about the House Select Committee on United States Competition with the Chinese Communist Party, and how its focus on the CCP as an “existential threat” adds up to an embarrassing moral panic that distracts from the serious issues the U.S. confronts when it comes to China.
From the psyche to the canvas: Chinese art brut
“Art brut” is an artistic concept birthed in France in the mid-20th century, inspired by the art of outsiders, often those with mental health conditions. In China, one person has made it his life’s work to highlight the dignity and artistry of its practitioners.
Why do China books all look the same?
The color red, dragons, cropped Asian faces…when it comes to presenting China, book publishers often rely on a set of familiar tropes — to the detriment of the authors and the genre.
In search of spirit in China’s wild west
Through history, culture, and contemporary China: A motorbike trip from Xi'an to Dunhuang.