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Sep 18~24, 2023: This Week in China
Team China faces off against its cousin Macau in the Asian Games Qualifiers. Source: CGTN. The Hangzhou Asian Games began September 23rd in Hangzhou, China. While a usually quieter cousin of the Olympics, this year’s Asian Games,…
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2023 China Hands 10 Under 25: Leaders in US-China Relations
In 2013, China Hands became the first magazine to honor young individuals for their exceptional contributions to US-China relations and China studies. We are humbled and excited to present the honorees for the 2023 China Hands 10 Under…
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Reverse Brain Drain – U.S. to China
MATT KIRSCHNER discusses the impact of the DOJ’s China Initiative on Chinese Professors in the U.S. and the mass return of Chinese talent to China. On January 14, 2021 at 6:30am, federal agents stormed the home of Mechanical…
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Paid to Cry: Chinese Professional Wailers at Funeral
ZILING CHEN discusses her original research into the tradition of funeral mourners in China. Professional wailers, or funeral mourners, are performers paid to present the eulogy at a funeral and lament the deceased through weeping and singing.…
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The Letters of Wang Xiaobo: A New Translation
Discover a new translation of the correspondence of author Wang Xiaobo by XINNING SHAO. Translator’s Note For a long time, my most conspicuous quirk was to watch people sleep: a stranger next to me nodding away on…
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At Legal Crossroads: Tang Law and Foreigners in Seventh-Century Turfan
AURELIA DOCHNAL considers the conception of foreigners in Tang dynasty China. (Image: Tang-era statue of a foreigner. Wikimedia Commons) The Tang dynasty is commonly known to have been a Chinese golden age, a period of vast wealth,…