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Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy (book excerpt)
Grazia Ting Deng on Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly managed by…
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China's Age of Abundance: Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath (Book Excerpt)
What Did China Do Right?
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Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State (book excerpt)
Yingyao Wang opens the black box of the Chinese bureaucracy to reveal the agency of the men and women who designed and redesigned Chinese economic…
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China's Rising Foreign Ministry (Book Excerpt)
Dylan M.H. Loh assesses Chinese foreign policy in Southeast Asia from 2009 to 2020 and catalogs “assertive” and “cooperative” behavior.
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Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea (book excerpt)
Shuchen Xiang's provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference
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China's Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets (book excerpt)
Pascale Massot's new book finds China behaves as much in an unplanned as a structured way and provides an alternative lens through which to think about…
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The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalization of China's Development Finance (Book Excerpt)
PKU's Muyang Chen argues in her book that China’s rise yields more than a rivalry, and its impact varies by issue area.
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China's Education Aid to Africa: Fragmented Soft Power (Book Excerpt)
Dr. Wei YE finds a much more complicated picture than just the projection of soft power of a neo-colonialist kind in an international relations context.
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The View from China: Perspectives on the West in the Xi Jinping Era
Professor Jing Men delves into the perspectives of Chinese scholars, experts, and policy advisors concerning China’s interactions with the Western…
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Colin Hawes on The Chinese Corporate Ecosystem
"Often surface appearances, such as CCP control over corporations, turn out to be deceptive when we examine how corporations like Huawei actually behave…
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Lan Xiaohuan on China's Local Government Competition and Overcapacity
The Fudan University professor's How China Works: An Introduction to China’s State-led Economic Development, translated from his 2021 Chinese domestic…
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Yao Yang on Chinese Economists‘ Contributions to Economics
The senior economist says the contributions are relatively small, but the Chinese have now achieved lift-off and can summarize theories of general…
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