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Economic Influence on China’s Relations with the West
In the Cold War years, the literature on China’s development focused on two themes. One was that trade and more ...
Read more »Elections, Political Transitions And Foreign Policy In East Asia: a Conference Report
The U.S. elections in November 2008 will bring new leadership and reconsideration of policies toward Asia. In China, the Hu ...
Read more »Taiwan under President Ma Ying-jeou
I. A Horse of a Different Color? Democracy and Distrust in Taiwan Following a seventeen-point victory in Taiwan’s presidential election ...
Read more »China and the West in Historical Perspective
I want to talk about rising China and the United States. To start with a couple obvious points about the ...
Read more »Kind of Blue?: Implications of Taiwan’s 2008 Elections
The Kuomintang won a sweeping victory in Taiwan’s parliamentary elections on January 12, 2008. This, and the enhanced prospect for ...
Read more »China Rising: Assessing China’s Economic And Military Power
The Chinese Communist Party holds its Seventeenth National Congress this month. That congress and the session of China’s national legislature ...
Read more »What Every American Needs to Know about Taiwan
About a month and a half ago, a college student in Taiwan ran away from home because, as he told ...
Read more »Understanding China
Classical Chinese Thought and Culture and Early Chinese History Victor Mair, professor of Chinese language and literature at the University ...
Read more »From Mao to Deng and Beyond: The Fate of Policy Oscillations in the Quest for a “Harmonious Society”
Perhaps the phrase that best characterizes the Maoist era is “never forget class struggle.” By contrast, the mantra that the ...
Read more »Classical Chinese Thought and Culture and Early Chinese History
Although scientist Jared Diamond famously called China an “empire of uniformity,” in fact nothing could be further from the truth. ...
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