China

Strong Medicine

Melissa Holbrook Pierson : Books, Literature, & Ideas

An epic portrait of the Tianenmen Square protests, Ma Jian's Beijing Coma is one hell of a powerful novel.
Fathers and Sons

Matt Steinglass : Books, Literature, & Ideas

Three recent books trace the generational fault lines of the Confucian family during China's past and present revolutions.
Who's Your Buddha?

Howard W. French : Non-Fiction

A collection of oral histories reveal a new understanding of the modern Chinese experience.
Hold China Accountable on Darfur

Ruth Messinger & Jerry Fowler : Sports

Don't let Olympic fever obscure the role China plays in the Sudanese government's reign of terror, rape and killing.
Taiwan Declares Peace on China

Robert Scheer

You can't trust the Chinese. I don't care if you're talking about those communists on the mainland or the other guys on Taiwan; they just won't follow the wargames script that our weapons hawks had counted on.
China's Inauspicious Year

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

China's response to the earthquake and other calamities of 2008 challenges the West to rethink its prejudices.
Regime-Quakes in Burma and China

Naomi Klein : Myanmar (Burma)

Nothing terrifies a repressive regime more than a natural disaster.
Battle of the Beijing Boycotts

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Two days in May could mark a turning point in the debates over Olympic boycotts.
Youth Protests Outshine Olympic Torch

Cora Currier : Student Movements

Tibetan-led youth groups are proving the power of grassroots organizing with their highly effective Beijing Olympics protests.
Olympic Flame Out

The Editors : Sports

Boycotts of the Beijing Olympics are easy. What's harder is moving China towards meaningful progress on human rights.
China's Olympic Delusion

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : Sports

Cracking down once again in Tibet, China seeks to control the script on its flawed human rights record, yet still be regarded as a suitable host for the Olympics. Dream on.
The Big Yam

John Feffer : Globalization

Chinese hearts, minds and pocketbooks get a lot of attention from the Eastern and Western consumer markets.
NIMBY Comes to China

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

In Shanghai, angry, middle-class protesters say a high-speed train will wreck their quality of life. This new form of dissent could be one of the biggest challenges China will face.

2007

The New China Hands

Ken Silverstein : Economic Policy

Corporate America spends millions lobbying to win permanent most favored nation (MFN) trade status for China, with its vast market and dirt-cheap labor force.
Big Red Checkbook

John Feffer

America's foreign-policy establishment is struggling to find an appropriate response to China's soft power.
The China Syndrome

Andrew Ross : Working Conditions

Worried about toxic toys from China? Worry, too, about Chinese workers exposed to the poisons.
Getting Real About China

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : Sports

From product safety to piracy, human rights and the Olympic Games, isn't it time we started being realistic about the way we treat China?
Hong Kong, Ten Years After

Fiona Ng : Human Rights

Ten years of Chinese rule in Hong Kong hasn't resulted in severe human rights abuses, but full democracy has yet to emerge.
Chinese Mirrors

Rick Perlstein : Non-Fiction

China has become like Israel: No matter the party, no matter the leader, the US government will defend its actions.
The Last 'Competitive Advantage': Letter From China

Jehangir S. Pocha : Sweatshops

How do the Chinese make such cheap TVs? By silencing, arresting and sometimes torturing labor rights activists.
China vs. Earth

Elizabeth Economy : Global Warming & Climate Change

The world's most industrialized countries started the climate crisis, but China might well finish the job.
Will China Choke on US Dollars?

Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy

China is losing its taste for lending the United States money that finances our wars, props up our dollar and shores up our credit.

2006

Short Takes

Fatin Abbas & Christine Smallwood : Books

Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and The City Is a Rising Tide.
China's Neoliberal Dynasty

Peter Kwong : World Economy

As China's economy surges forward, so does the pileup of social contradictions: pollution, migration, crime and family dysfunction.
The Chinese Evolution

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : History

Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving authoritarian state.
China's Internal Crisis

Stephen Glain : US Foreign Policy

The Pentagon casts China as the Next Big Threat, but the Chinese regime is a far greater threat to its unmoored and angry citizens. China's unbridled economic expansion has also become a perilous source of discontent.
Hu's 'State Visit'

Peter Kwong : US Foreign Policy

The visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao underscores the deteriorating US-China relationship, yet the Bush Administration is making matters worse with diplomatic insults to the Chinese leader.
America's Online Censors

Rebecca MacKinnon : Internet & New Media

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems are under fire from Congress for helping China censor and prosecute political dissidents. But a proposed law to guide technology companies doing business abroad raises troubling questions for Internet users everywhere.