Beijing 2022 and China’s Second ‘Coming-Out Party’
By Dan Steinbock
After a decade of huge international events, many Chinese people suffer from “gala-fatigue”. So has the case for Beijing Winter Olympics 2022...
Authentic, Ethnic, and Fusion: Food and Identity in Contemporary Perspective
By Ishita Banerjee-Dube
This brief essay considers varied and often contradictory developments in order to explore the many understandings of the “authentic” and of “fusion”...
Can Educational Initiatives Help Achieve Social Justice in China?
By W. John Morgan and Bin Wu
There has been an increase in debates regarding the Chinese education system’s inequality over the past years, relating...
Advertising in China
By Hongmei Li
In the past few decades, Chinese advertising experienced exponential development. Advertising has gained strategic and symbolic importance in opening up society and...
When Asian Economies are Expanding Higher Education: Challenges for Graduate Employment and Education Governance
By Ka Ho Mok
University graduates not only face the increasing risk of unemployment, but are usually disappointed by low starting salaries and a lack...
China’s Leftists Are Embracing Confucius. Why?
By Taisu Zhang
In this article, Taisu Zhang analyses Pan and Xu’s paper entitled “China’s Ideological Spectrum” which provides large-scale empirical data on the ideological...
How China is Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Couples who have More than...
By Stuart Gietel-Basten
In November 2015, China announced it would abandon its one-child policy and switch to a national two-child policy. It is now...
How China’s Increasingly Emotional Consumers Are Shaking the World
By Jeffrey Towson
The changing behaviour of Chinese consumers is now regularly shaking the world. Suddenly, when these consumers change their minds about something, it...
The Internet in China: How the Network is Shaping the PRC’s Economic and Social...
By Eric Harwit
Chinese e-commerce and communications companies are playing leading roles in the nation’s continued Internet development. These corporations are expanding their roles...
A Tale of Three Disney Cities in Asia
By Dan Steinbock
As Hong Kong’s Disneyland is suffering from losses, Tokyo Disneyland is expanding by debt. Shanghai’s Disneyland is the new regional trendsetter.
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