4th year Asian Studies major at UC Berkeley with a focus on China and Political Science. Particularly interested in gender construction, political dissent, nationalism, and socioeconomic polarization in the PRC. Likes to run, fence, and otherwise work out. Loves to eat.
Chinese lawyers say that judges are unlikely to hear lawsuits such as those brought by the Yi family, covered here on CDT, against Chinese dairy companies involved in China’s recent milk scandal. From the International...
Read MoreSenior Chinese Communist Party official Zhou Tianyong’s prediction that “by 2020, China will basically finish its political and institutional reforms” appears to signal the Party’s willingness to reopen...
Read MoreFrom Danwei.org: Yan Chongnian (阎崇年), a scholar specializing in Qing history and Manchu culture, was attacked on October 5 when he was in Wuxi to promote his new book, The Kangxi Emperor. The prolific author was smacked twice in...
Read MoreThis video of a Korean gamer’s rant against Chinese gamers and Chinese civilization in general has been making the rounds in Chinese cyberspace. From the Shanghaiist: The video of this young Korean gamer who launches into...
Read MoreA new global balance of economic power and prestige may be emerging from the international credit crisis precipitated by Wall Street’s September crash. David Gow at the Guardian speculates: While the western delegates at the...
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