Translations: As Tributes Pour In, Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore Gets a Reprieve From Feared Closure
Following more than a week of speculation that Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore (有杏书店, Yǒu Xìng...
foreign academics
Translations: “How Can a Country That Blocks the Nobel Website Hope to Win a Nobel Prize?”
The news that two more Japanese scientists were awarded Nobel Prizes in the natural sciences has been met with considerable consternation on the Chinese internet. Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University and two American scientists,...
Chinese Government Leverages Inbound Tourism to Boost External Propaganda
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...
Stabbing of Americans in Jilin Draws Comparisons to the Boxer Rebels
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...
“Good Morning, Class! I Am Not a Spy.”
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...
Politics and Promotions Weigh On Chinese Academics
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...
Academic’s Dismissal Stokes Fears of Party Influence
Financial Times’ Emily Feng reports that the University of Nottingham Ningbo—the first Sino-UK...
MERICS Interview: How to Resist China’s Influence
Last week, we published Part One of an interview with Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Director of the Research...
Academics Condemn New Wave of Journal Censorship
In August, news that Cambridge University Press had agreed to hide a haphazardly compiled list of...
Peter Hessler: Why I Publish in China
Peter Hessler was The New Yorker’s Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and the author of...
Show Me the Money
For Science, Mara Hvistendahl recounts the experiences of theoretical physicist Ulf Leonhardt, who...
Dealing With China’s Censors
In a post for ChinaFile, modern Chinese historian Joseph W. Esherick describes his experience...
Marking Tiananmen’s 25th Anniversary
The New York Times’ Chris Buckley talks to historian Steven I. Levine about the Tiananmen...
Want Access? Go Easy on China
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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