Kind of Online in the PRC: The New Normal?
For anybody who still thinks China is a great business environment or that China has a bright future as a research hub, intellectual incubator, or simply a good place for their next office or factory,...
View Article“The Fetishization of Legitimacy”
In yesterday’s LA Times, Julie Makinen wrote a quirky piece about censorship in China. Apparently, a fellow foreign correspondent had a few of her books and materials inspected and ultimately had to...
View Article“Out of Autocracy, Off the Shelves”
New post by me on the LA Review of Books excellent China blog on the historian Qin Hui and his (now banned in the PRC) book Out of Autocracy 走出帝制. Out of Autocracy, Off the Shelves In recent years,...
View Article“China’s Latest Proposal to Block Internet VPNs Still Doesn’t Make Sense,”...
China’s Latest Proposal to Block Internet VPNs Still Doesn’t Make Sense The “VPNs are going to be blocked in China” story seems to get written at least once a year. Eventually, it might actually come...
View Article“New Fronts in the Battle Over Scholarship and Ideology in China,” Radii China
New Fronts in the Battle Over Scholarship and Ideology in China Earlier this month, the Cambridge University Press (CUP), publisher of the China Quarterly, one of the most important journals for...
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