For American Pundits, China is a Fantasyland
In an op-ed at The Washington Post, James Palmer attacks the use of China’s achievements in...
James Palmer
Forced Disappearances, Brutality, and Politics of Fear
At Vice News, James Palmer describes the ascendancy of China’s Central Commission for...
Will China Use Big Data as a Tool of the State?
At Aeon Magazine, James Palmer examines booming data collection in China, from sources ranging...
What Really Scares Beijing About the HK Protests
With Occupy Central and student activists entering day seven of pro-democracy demonstrations in...
What Is It Like to Be Disabled in China?
At Aeon, James Palmer examines the lives of disabled Chinese, and attitudes towards them in the...
Are Ethnic Tensions on the Rise in China?
As news comes of the year’s second Tibetan self-immolation and another violent clash in...
What’s In It For China’s Mistresses?
At Aeon Magazine, James Palmer examines the practice, common among wealthy Chinese men and...
Blood, Fear and Hip-Hop in Xinjiang
At ChinaFile, James Palmer mounts a wide-ranging exploration of tensions between China’s Han...
Can Traditional Chinese Medicine Survive?
At Aeon Magazine, James Palmer describes the political, economic and cultural drives behind the $60 billion Traditional Chinese Medicine industry in China and Hong Kong, and its uneasy relationship with science and modern...
An Interview with Zeng Jinyan
At The China Story, Elisa Nesossi talks to Zeng Jinyan about activism, human rights, filmmaking and blogging. Zeng highlights the underappreciated contributions and sacrifices of female activists and family members, as well as...
The Post 80s Generation—Are the Kids All Right?
At ChinaFile, Sun Yunfan, Orville Schell and Damien Ma discuss the gap between members of China’s post-80s generation and their parents, based on a recent article by James Palmer that was featured on CDT last week. Sun...
China’s Generation Gaps
As income inequality in China grows increasingly urgent, James Palmer examines another divide in Chinese society less frequently scrutinized in the West: the generation gap between young Chinese and their parents, which one...
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