May You Live in Interesting Times: China's Leader-Legitimacy Problem
For the first time in its history, the all-powerful Communist Party has no clear way to guarantee a smooth power transfer. More »
Advertisement
For the first time in its history, the all-powerful Communist Party has no clear way to guarantee a smooth power transfer. More »
The country's leadership, long sensitive to the embarrassment of releasing dissidents, is showing more confidence and flexibility. More »
The speeches of the astrophysicist Fang Lizhi have galvanized students and given political discourse in China a new depth of field, and although he has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party his influence is undiminished
It's a centuries-old question that's taking on new significance as the two ends of the world come together, on slightly different terms. More »
The world’s biggest corporation and the world’s most populous nation have launched a bold experiment in consumer behavior and environmental stewardship: to set green standards for 20,000 suppliers making several hundred thousand items sold to billions of shoppers worldwide. Will that effort take hold, or will it unravel in a recriminatory tangle of misguided expectations and broken promises?
A recent return to deifying Mao is less straightforward than it seems
