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AsiaSociety.org articles, op-eds, videos and blog posts on China.

Shale Gas and the Scramble for Resources
Experts discuss the effect of shale gas on relations among China, the United States, and other countries.
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China’s Power Structure, Five Years From Now
Columbia Professor Andrew Nathan discusses the role of factional relationships, institutionalization of leadership roles, and the vitality of the new leaders in the make up of China's next five years.
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Videos: Will Xi Jinping Differ From His Predecessors?
Political scientist Andrew Nathan discusses newly installed Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s relationship to his predecessors Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin, the likelihood of political reform under Xi.
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Will Xi Jinping Be Different From His Predecessors?
Professor Andrew Nathan of Columbia University discusses how leadership changes in China are shaped by the times more than straying from the Chinese Communist Party mission.
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Did Political Reformers Lose Out in the Leadership Transition?
Columbia Professor Andrew Nathan discusses the idea of reform in China, how economic reform differs from the idea of political reform, and the how reform is defined in both ways.
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Video: Sensors Strapped to Kites Search for Clues in Beijing's Dirty Air
Two U.S. graduate students design kites with sensors that can easily monitor Beijing's air quality and send data back to the people on the ground.
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Photos: Watch Beijing's Air Quality Get Worse and Worse and Worse and ...
As the "airpocalypse" continues in northern China, we check in with Michael Zhao, founder of Asia Society's China Air Daily website, to see if there are any signs of hope.
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Is Xi Jinping a Reformer? It's Much Too Early to Tell (A Response to Nicholas Kristof)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Rachel Beitarie reply to Nicholas Kristof's New York Time's piece predicting that Xi Jinping will spearhead an economic reform resurgence.
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DIS/ORIENTED: Antonioni in China (Complete)
Choreographer Yin Mei presents a work-in-progress partly inspired by Michaelangelo Antonioni's film "Chung Kuo, Cina" as well as her own experience of China's Cultural Revolution.
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Photo of the Day: Tranquil Waters in China
Boats rest under a drooping tree in the still waters of Zhouzhuang, China on January 14, 2013. (Sharon Hahn Darlin/Flickr)
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