The Girl from Harvard, the Girl from China What it's like to live a double life.

November 30, 2015

from FP:

There are now over 300,000 Chinese students ...

China to End one Child Policy

October 29, 2015

The Chinese government has announced via Xinhua on this Thursday that China will officially end the "One Child Policy" allowing all couples to have two children.

China Celebrates 70th Anniversary of Victory in World Anti-Fascist War

September 3, 2015

China's Communist Party will host a larger military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing. 49 countries have agreed to send representatives to the event.

CCTV-1 will broadcast the parade live Thursday morning. At 7:50 p.m. it will broadcast “Victory and Peace,” the evening anniversary gala.

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"What Africa Can Learn from China about Growing its Agribusiness Sector"

August 31, 2015

This commentary was reposted by Quartz Africa as "Innovators and Entrepreneurs will Unlock Africa's Agribusiness Promise" on August 31, 2015.

The World Bank projects that agriculture and agribusiness in Africa will grow to be a US$1 trillion industry in Africa by 2030. To promote this outcome, the continent...

President Ma of Taiwan visits HLS

August 27, 2015

By LANA BIRBRAIR '15, August 27, 2015

On July 11, Harvard for the first time in the century-long history of the Republic of China welcomed a sitting president of Taiwan, hosting President Ma Ying-jeou S.J.D. '81 for a nostalgic visit to his alma mater.

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See the Lives of China’s Mentally Ill TIME Magazine

July 29, 2015

Ian Parry scholarship winner Yuyang Liu documents the dire reality of mental disease in China.

by Ye Ming

To live with mental illness in China is to live in an invisible world.

Of the more than 100 million victims living with some form of...

Andy Nathan on China's Future

July 9, 2015

In this podcast edition of Foreign Affairs Unedited, expert Andy Nathan discusses the future of China with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.

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Why A Chinese Government Think Tank Attacked American Scholars

May 21, 2015

Reported by Frank Langfitt

The think tank's article says professors are miscasting the history of the country's Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). That's big for the Communist Party, which is invested in...

Censorship and Publishing in China [A ChinaFile Conversation]

May 21, 2015

From A ChinaFile Conversation: "This week, a new PEN American Center report “Censorship and Conscience: Foreign Authors and the Challenge of Chinese Censorship,” by Alexa Olesen, draws fresh attention to a perennial problem for researchers, scholars, and...

A righteous view of history from China Media Project: A project of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong

April 22, 2015

We wrote recently about a rising tide of animosity in China’s state press against the “infiltration” of Western ideas in Chinese education and scholarship — and provided a full translation of a hard-line essay decrying the “westernization” of economics education.

The latest target, it seems, is historical scholarship.

In a high-minded article posted on Monday to the official website of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences — and published...

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