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How the Snowden Affair Might End Up Helping U.S.-China Relations ChinaFile

The reason why both Americans and Chinese have become so nostalgic for the great Nixon/Kissinger-Mao Zedong/Zhou Enlai breakthrough in 1972 is because that was the last time that Sino-U.S. relations...

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Edward Snowden’s Leaks May Actually Strengthen U.S.-China Relations The Atlantic

The reason why both Americans and Chinese have become so nostalgic for the great Nixon/Kissinger-Mao Zedong/Zhou Enlai breakthrough in 1972 is because that was the last time that Sino-U.S. relations...

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Chairman of the Board Foreign Policy

In his opening remarks at the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, an annual meeting between high ranking U.S. and Chinese officials, Vice President Joseph Biden spoke about his first visit to China in...

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A Rising China Needs a New National Story The Wall Street Journal

Every July, amid festivities and fireworks, the U.S. and France mark their birth as nations. Accustomed as we are in the West to histories that begin with triumph—the signing of the Declaration of...

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Why Is Prosperous China So Anxious? YaleGlobal

For those who look at China from afar, or see it on a visit through the lens of the towering new buildings, stunning airport terminals, state-of-the-art high-speed rail systems and dazzling...

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Jung Chang’s ‘Empress Dowager Cixi’ The New York Times

For historians, there is no more powerful aphrodisiac than an exciting topic buoyed by a raft of unexploited sources, raising the prospect of a revisionist look at an important figure or even an entire...

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A Chinese Artist Confronts Environmental Disaster The New Yorker

What were all these sick animals—lions, wolves, camels, monkeys, gazelles, pandas, and zebras—doing on this dilapidated Chinese fishing boat, sailing past the famous frieze of colonial banks, trading...

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Will China Crush the Hong Kong Protests? Wall Street Journal

For anyone who observed the student-led mass protests that gripped Beijing’s Tiananmen Square for seven weeks in 1989, watching students fill the streets of Hong Kong in 2014 is a bittersweet...

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Talking Heads: China Strikes Back | Vice Vice

In the first episode of Talking Heads, Orville Schell discusses his New York Review of Books essay, “China Strikes Back.” Schell recently joined Jimmy Carter on a visit to China, where the former...

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China Strikes Back! The New York Review of Books

When Deng Xiaoping arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington in January 1979, his country was just emerging from a long revolutionary deep freeze. No one knew much about this five-foot-tall...

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