Alex Wang (UCLA): Chinese State Capitalism and the Environment. China can stop catastrophic climate change — but will it? Ari Phillips on how it only took four months for China to achieve a jaw-dropping reduction in carbon emissions. Kellee Tsai (HKUST): The Political Economy of State Capitalism and Shadow Banking in China. Daniel C. K. Chow (Ohio State): How China’s Crackdown on Corruption Has Led to Less Transparency in Its Enforcement of Its Anti-Bribery Laws. Steve Hess (Bridgeport): The Flight of the Affluent: Exit, Voice and Loyalty and the Problem of Wealth Drain in Contemporary China. Li Hejun, China’s richest man, might have been running a massive fraud. Matt O'Brien on the craziest story yet in the irrational world of China’s dotcom stock bubble. Property bubble, tech bubble, what’s next for China? Kevin Drum wonders (and part 2). Tyler Cowen on the new China initiative to rebuild the Old Silk Road along modern principles; and on why China is hard to figure out. “Why do Chinese lack creativity?”: In a popular Internet essay, one Chinese writer explains why the country remains behind the curve in innovation. Jennifer Pan (Harvard) and Yiqing Xu (MIT): China’s Ideological Spectrum (and more). Why are China’s leftists embracing Confucius? Taisu Zhang investigates. Jeffrey Wasserstrom on the people’s Pope and the chairman of everything. Timothy Garton Ash on how Xi Jinping’s China is the greatest political experiment on Earth. Is Chinese autocracy outperforming western democracy? Stein Ringen reviews The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A. Bell (and more). China and democracy: Stephen T. Asma on why the Dragon will never become the Eagle.
