China

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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Boats rest under a drooping tree in the still waters of Zhouzhuang, China on January 14, 2013. (Sharon Hahn Darlin/Flickr)
Yin Mei puts masks, movement, puppetry and text in "conversation" with a famous documentary to re-imagine the Cultural Revolution onstage.
Jonathan Campbell, who literally wrote the book on Chinese rock 'n' roll says Psy gives hope to yaogun (rock 'n' roll).
Jonathan Campbell discusses rock 'n' roll's role as a "mirror" on the massive changes China has experienced over the past few decades, and the politicalness (or apoliticalness) of the music currently being produced.
Princely pedigree and family roots in East Asia’s conflicted past run deep among incoming leaders in Beijing, Tokyo, Pyongyang and Seoul.