In a global public opinion climate marked by polarized views of China, one common tactic employed by the Party-state apparatus to dispel potential criticism is encouraging foreigners to come see China in person. Numerous...
The stabbing of four instructors from Iowa’s Cornell College in a Jilin park has become the latest flashpoint in U.S.-China relations. A Chinese national who attempted to intervene in the attack was also stabbed. An official...
A photo of an American teacher introducing himself to a Chinese university class with a slide presentation proclaiming, “I am not a spy” has gone viral, eliciting much mirth online. It also highlights an increasingly tense...
Life in Chinese academia is hard. Scholars are subject to twin pressures: politics and performance. Two recent cases—a professor’s lawsuit against Tsinghua University over wrongful dismissal connected to politically sensitive...
Financial Times’ Emily Feng reports that the University of Nottingham Ningbo—the first Sino-UK...
Last week, we published Part One of an interview with Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Director of the Research...
In August, news that Cambridge University Press had agreed to hide a haphazardly compiled list of...
Peter Hessler was The New Yorker’s Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and the author of...
For Science, Mara Hvistendahl recounts the experiences of theoretical physicist Ulf Leonhardt, who...
In a post for ChinaFile, modern Chinese historian Joseph W. Esherick describes his experience...
The New York Times’ Chris Buckley talks to historian Steven I. Levine about the Tiananmen...
Foreign scholars of China are learning their are limits to their access if their research doesn’t fit the Chinese government agenda. From The National: Foreign scholars are finding the China field an increasingly dangerous...
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