Margaret Hillenbrand, professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford, joined CDT to discuss her two latest books: “On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China” (2023) and “Negative Exposures: Knowing...
Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) is a monumental figure in modern Chinese history. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate died in custody in a Shenyang hospital in 2017 while being treated for liver cancer. A prolific writer, Liu first rose...
Evidence of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang has significantly increased over the past five years. As documented by researchers and human rights groups, the Chinese government has subjected...
Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest publishing house, made 300 articles from the...
After receiving an unexpectedly harsh life sentence for separatism on Tuesday, Uyghur scholar...
Elliot Sperling, a American scholar on Tibet, has been barred from entering China and sent back to...
The Asahi Shimbun reports that Chinese-born Kobe University academic Wang Ke, known for his...
The granddaughter of a missionary to China and daughter of the late sinologist Lucian Pye,...
The University of Nottingham’s Jon Sullivan has compiled an annotated list of active China...
Kate Whitehead at South China Morning Post gives a detailed profile of Jonathan Spence, the prominent China scholar and Yale history professor: The way Spence tells his life story, luck played a big role in his success, too....
Richard Baum, longtime China watcher, former director of UCLA’s U.S.-China Center and founder of the Chinapol listserv, died on December 14 at age 72. An obituary in the LA Times explains his life’s work and the path...
China Media Project translates a blog post by Yang Hengjun on why “leftist” scholars like Wang Hui have found favor in the West, given their critical attitudes toward democracy and universal values. Yang Hengjun is a...
The Guardian ran an obituary of David Hawkes, celebrated China scholar who translated Hong Lou Meng with the title The Story of the Stone, Volume 1, ‘The Golden Days’: When approached by Penguin Classics in 1970, he...
From China Daily: One day after the death of one of the country’s greatest minds, Chinese paid their respects Sunday to Ji Xianlin, a widely acclaimed linguist and “national treasure”. The line of mourners was...
Scholarly debate continues over the meaning and significance of the words of Confucius, China’s most influential moral and political philosopher. Yu Dan’s newest book, Confucius from the Heart, is drawing criticism...
From Far Eastern Economic review: Academics who study China, which includes the author, habitually please the Chinese Communist Party, sometimes consciously, and often unconsciously. Our incentives are to conform, and we do so in numerous ways: through the research questions we ask or don’t ask, through the facts we report or ignore, through our use […]
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