online archive
12:00PM
JUL 20 2007
China
From PINR, a look at why China will not cave to pressure over trade imbalance. The Wild Wild East of Capitalism: Traders in London and New York aren’t quite sure what to make of China’s chaotic stock markets. An interview with Asia economist Andy Xie on the unique psychology of Chinese investors, why the country’s markets are crashing, and how that matters 7,300 miles away on Wall Street. A review of China: Fragile Superpower—How China's Internal Politics Could Derail its Peaceful Rise by Susan L. Shirk. Why the mainland's problems could keep it from becoming the next superpower.
The Green Leap Forward: Environmentalism is China’s fastest-growing citizen movement. Beijing isn’t cracking down on these new activists—it’s empowering them; and a review of Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World by Joshua Kurlantzick (and more). An interview with Adam Minter on the future of Catholicism in China. An interview with James Farrer, author of Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai. Marx loses currency in new China: Teaching socialism is mandatory, but learning it is monotonous for today's students, who revere money more than Mao. A review of Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man by Oliver August. An interview with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong: "Nobody can control China".
Form LRB, what is remembered so powerfully in Hong Kong about Tiananmen cannot even be mentioned on the other side of the border that separates the Special Administrative Region from the rest of the People’s Republic of China. Ten years ago, as Britain handed over Hong Kong to the Chinese, the predictions for its future were uniformly bleak. So far, however, the pessimists have been proved wrong.
