Jul 21, 2015
Chinese President Xi Jinping who doubles as Communist Party and military chief has vowed to go after powerful “tigers” and lowly “flies” as part of an extensive crackdown on government corruption. But is the crackdown losing steam after ensnaring Zhou Yongkang,...
Jul 16, 2015
Jemimah Steinfeld is the Literature Festival Manager at the Asia House and author of ‘Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China’. She started her career in Shanghai, where her interest in Asian culture began. Since then, she has...
Jul 14, 2015
Richard Bernstein studied Chinese history at Harvard before becoming one of the first American journalists to be stationed in the People’s Republic of China, opening the Time bureau in Beijing in 1980. He then spent twenty-five years as a staff correspondent for...
Jul 13, 2015
William Duff is Chief of the Political and Economic Section at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai. He took his current role with the U.S. Consulate in August 2013. His previous assignments include Political Advisor to United States Division South in Basrah, Iraq, and to...
Jun 23, 2015
Excess supply across the residential, office, and retail sectors in urban China are now a drag on economic performance, and market easing policies to date may not be adequate to prevent a hard landing. In light of these trends, the speakers discussed factors...
