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.
A conversation with Lin Song, a Chinese scholar with a PhD in gender studies who currently teaches at a Chinese college. Song said he was surprised by how much interest his students have in discussing feminism and queer-related topics.
Weijian Shan is a longtime China investor based in Hong Kong. We discussed his recent book about taking control and turning around a Chinese bank.
A conversation with Michael Davidson, a scholar and engineer with deep expertise in renewable energy in China, India, and the U.S.
The China Project sat down with producer and director Charles Abelmann to discuss his latest documentary, English Hustle, which tells the story of the rise and fall of the online English tutoring sector in China from the perspective of foreign teachers.
The China Project sat down with Shanghai-born, Emmy-winning independent filmmaker Violet Du Feng to discuss her latest documentary, Hidden Letters, which shines a light on how modern women in China keep alive the tradition of Nüshu, a coded, once-secret script emblematic of Chinese female empowerment and sisterhood.
China has poured many billions of dollars into influencing news coverage all over the world. Some of this money has been wasted — nobody takes Chinese state TV seriously in the U.S., for example — but Beijing has also had real successes in changing the conversation about China in several countries.
The renowned Dutch historian of modern China answered my questions about the just-concluded Party congress, and why my youthful dreams of a more open China were always going to be disappointed.
At one of China’s most prestigious universities, students from a variety of majors are learning the Ashkenazi Jewish language.
Bonnie Glaser has a lifetime of experience researching and advising the U.S. government on trans-Pacific geopolitics, security, and defense. I asked her all about the global anxieties China and the U.S. are causing around the world, how close we are to a war over Taiwan, and much more.