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

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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Choreographer Yin Mei Recreates China's 'World Gone Mad' Onstage at Asia Society
Yin Mei puts masks, movement, puppetry and text in "conversation" with a famous documentary to re-imagine the Cultural Revolution onstage.
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Who Will Be China's Psy?
Jonathan Campbell, who literally wrote the book on Chinese rock 'n' roll says Psy gives hope to yaogun (rock 'n' roll).
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Rock 'n' Roll: China's 'Great Mirror'
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.
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Complex Legacies Follow Northeast Asia's New Leaders
Princely pedigree and family roots in East Asia’s conflicted past run deep among incoming leaders in Beijing, Tokyo, Pyongyang and Seoul.
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