The introduction to Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power by Yan Xuetong. How China sees the world: An emerging global power hashes out its foreign policy. Aaron L. Friedberg on hegemony with Chinese characteristics. Vivian Giang and Robert Johnson on 108 giant Chinese infrastructure projects that are reshaping the world. The trouble with Tibet: The Dalai Lama’s democratization project poses a challenge to the United States. A review of Tragedy in Crimson: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World and Lost the Battle with China by Tim Johnson. An excerpt from The Tree That Bleeds: A Uighur Town on the Edge by Nick Holdstock. Blood, justice and corruption: Why the Chinese love their death penalty. The Chinese city of Wuhan names and shames the badly behaved in local paper. Victor Shih highlights rising inequality, economic irregularity and political heavy-handedness at the heart of modern China. Women in China have long been silenced or sidelined, if they weren’t smothered at birth — but now a booming economy has transformed their lives. How serious is son preference in China? The Big Test: Does China's nerve-racking gaokao college-entrance exam really identify the country's best and brightest, or is it even sillier and more unfair than the SAT? China's young, spoiled kids are rejecting traditional values — but can the state make Mao or Confucius seem relevant again before it's too late? In China, a place where Maoism still reigns. Still haunted by the ghost of Mao: Despite China's prosperity, the People's Republic remains in the grip of the monstrous ideology of its founder. A review of The End of Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui. Stephen Roach on ten reasons why China is different.
