At Asia Society, Jeffrey Wasserstrom talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson about China’s dramatic changes and the grave perils involved in covering them. This has been a year of surprising developments in...
Read MoreIn the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson looks at the debate over morality in China following the death of toddler Yue Yue on Foshan, and whether Daoism may be one option to fill the spiritual void in Chinese society: The...
Read MoreIn the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson writes about calls for political reform in China, from the Premier to activists, and what if any impact they will have: But what about the larger question of bringing change to...
Read MoreFrom China Beat, notes from “a dialogue between Ian Johnson and Angilee Shah. Johnson, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, is author of Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China and A Mosque in Munich: Nazis,...
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: Amid a series of trade disputes simmering in the background, China is pushing ahead with efforts to ensure that its gargantuan stimulus package benefits domestic companies. A recent directive issued...
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: The Canadian government’s little-examined role in the building of China’s Three Gorges Dam sheds light on how foreign governments and companies helped China move forward with one of the most controversial engineering projects in history. Many Western governments, including the U.S., initially refused to support China’s plan to build the […]
Read MoreDalian may be the Chinese city that has the best chance of challenging Bangalore, and it certainly looks a lot more like Silicon Valley than Beijing does, with its seaside fresh air and green boulevards. Now it hosts an Intel plant. From the Wall Street Journal: A decade ago, this northern port city was known […]
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From Guardian Unlimited: The lack of Chinese success for companies like Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon is down to ‘lazy corporate culture’ When it emerged earlier this week that eBay was preparing to close down its Chinese operation, few observers were wholly surprised. After several years of underperforming results in the auction giant’s business in the […]
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