Nov 23, 2016
China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms, managed to create a number of vibrant high-tech firms? China’s domestic financial system fails...
Nov 23, 2016
Less than a week after the US Presidential election, Claire will discuss trends and challenges in the new administration’s approach to US-China relations, especially in terms of trade ties. We invite Claire Reade, former Assistant US Trade Representative for...
Oct 24, 2016
“Young China Hand” is a thriller about a crisis-era clash between Western wits, Chinese princeling-linked financiers and Peking duck farmers. Inspired by true events and experiences between 2008 and 2013, the book combines an insider’s look into...
Oct 23, 2016
The story of Shakespeare in China is one of cultural blending and reinvention. Peopled by devoted evangelists, theater directors and dogged interpreters intent on bridging divisions of language and politics, it tracks the trajectory of modern Chinese history and the...
Oct 10, 2016
There are more than 320 million people in mainland China between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with distant memory of Tiananmen, they are the first generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international...