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A short history of free speech in China
200 BC The legacy of Confucius From 200 BC to the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese statecraft was based on the ideas of Confucius, a political ......(Continue Reading) Why the dragon will outrun the bear: ever since he travelled to the Soviet Union and China as a young man nearly 20 years ago, Nicholas Watt has asked
In 1986, as a brash 18-year-old, I wrote to Mikhail Gorbachev. I asked the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party to discuss world affairs with me during a brief stopover in Moscow as I ma...(Continue Reading)Between secularist ideology and desecularizing reality: the birth and growth of religious research in Communist China
Under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, the scholarship of religious research in China has changed from virtual nonexistence in the first thirty ......(Continue Reading)Communist, Nationalist, and Dangerous: The problem of China
The recent crisis in Hainan Island brought Chinese nationalism to the front of our minds. Specialist China-watchers have understood for some time that ......(Continue Reading)The labor market in post-reform China: history, evidence, and implications; China's labor cost advantages are shifting but will remain formidable
Concern over China's growing economic power has focused attention on its prevailing wage, which--in spite of recent strong growth--remains a fraction ......(Continue Reading)
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