The Ongoing Battle of China’s Human Rights Lawyers and Their Families on the 8th Anniversary of the 709 Crackdown
Wang Qiaoling and Li Wenzu first met at a detention center in Beijing, China in the summer of 2015. They were both in a desperate search for their husbands -…
Read More Where Have All the Chinese International Students Gone?
At first, the declining number of Chinese international students in the United States might be chalked up as another COVID-19 misfortune. The timeline does match: in a sobering report, The…
Read More The Pillar of a Rising Great Power: State-owned Enterprises in China
“It is already four in the afternoon. Are you sure you want to finish drawing these accounting documents?” a manager asked me while I was working on an external audit…
Read More Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Chinese TV Drama: Q&A with Professor Wanlin Li
Zhen Huan Zhuan（甄嬛傳）, or Empresses in the Palace, is a 2011 historical drama adapted from an online romance novel. As its title indicates, the story of Zhen Huan Zhuan focuses…
Read More From Arm Sales to Semiconductor Affairs: The Evolution of Taiwan’s Geopolitical Importance to the United States
“The one-China principle is the political foundation of China-US relations,” - Mao Ning, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson. While China has laid claim to Taiwan’s sovereignty ever since the end…
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