Yesterday, a reporter asked me: Why do state media and officials praise individuals for their heroic actions in a public…
Apologies for the last post, which went out without a title.
Wang Liqiang is a Chinese national now in Australia who recently went to the Australian press (here, The Age) to…
Recently in the course of some writing I’ve had to address the problem of “essentially contested concepts.” But because the…
The Financial Times reports that the Dagong bond rating agency has been taken over by a state-owned investment company after…
It’s my pleasure to welcome two new co-bloggers here: Ling Li and Nils Pelzer. Ling is a Lecturer in the…
I’ve never been to Bard College, but it has always been a little special to me, since that’s where Donald…
The Xinjiang Initiative is a project to raise awareness about the terrible things happening in Xinjiang right now. I urge…
A recent discussion on a Chinese politics discussion group of which I’m a member raised the issue of whataboutism. What…
[CORRECTION JAN. 8 2018: I have learned that the writer is a she. Please deem all relevant pronouns as changed…