New China Literacy
Yaqi Li, Wenxiang He, Yu WeiA young Chinese IR scholar-practitioner's notebook — policy analysis, institutional observation, and firsthand dispatches from inside the system that trains a rising power to understand the world.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 52 | Founded | 8 months ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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EP03 The New China Hands Are Chinese
For decades, the job of explaining China to the world belonged to a specific kind of person: the foreign correspondent, the visiting scholar, the expat adviser reading Chinese publication from the outside in. That model is aging out. What i...
The Republic That Gave the Money Back
On the last night of 1908, a twenty-two-year-old from a rice village in Zhejiang took the ferry across San Francisco Bay to watch America celebrate. The Ferry Building’s clock tower was dressed in lights; toy bugles and rattles deafened the...
The Prototype of the Chinese Psycho
They loved each other; what each loved was the self imagined in the other’s eyes.
— Liu Yunshan, afterword to The Abyss of Human Nature
A note before reading: this essay discusses matricide, suicidal thinking, terminal illness, com...
A Portrait of Xuefa: A Biography of Accident
Chinese academia’s most candid genre is the obituary.
When the journal editor Wu Weihua (武卫华) died on December 22, 2025, at seventy, the praise that followed him had an unusual property: in any genre other than mourning, most of it would r...
Snow Blindness
Edgar Snow has been dead for fifty-four years. Last week may have been the busiest of his career.
On July 7, Xinhua’s national think tank and Peking University released a sixty-eight-page report on his “spiritual legacy,” timed to the nine...
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Policy analyst, former US-watcher in China, now a China-watcher in Singapore, also a Chinese watcher of China watchers. Writing is solitary work, often done past midnight. Stay lucid, stay composed, and think from where I stand.
Based in Shanghai
Policy analyst by day, fortune-teller by instinct, artist after midnight. Geopolitics is astrology for people who don’t believe in astrology. \ud83d\udc40 Official Site: Atlaspedia.org
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