New China Literacy
Yaqi Li, YichaoA 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 | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 37 | Founded | 7 months ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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The Reconstructed City
Before I could place China on a map I had already been told what it was: the sole survivor of the four great ancient civilizations, the one continuous thread where Egypt, Babylon, and the Indus had each been broken. The phrasing itself was...
Reversed Tones and Borrowed Tongues
Dirt-Talk
In the dialect my parents speak, the first tone and the third tone trade places, and so do the second and the fourth. Held against standard Mandarin, the language of my hometown is its mirror image, the same words turned insid...
Watching the Watchers
The Trump–Xi summit of 13–15 May 2026 produced little conventional substance: a procurement list, a phrase, a handshake. Yet the phrase—“a constructive China–U.S. relationship of strategic stability”—mattered, because it activated a system....
The Policy School That Isn’t There Yet
On April 1, the Peking University School of International Studies (北京大学国际关系学院, PKU SIS) held an expert review meeting to self-establish a new professional degree, the Master of International Affairs (国际事务硕士, MIA). The announcement appeared...
SP02: What an American Studies in China
We held our own Gen-Z version of the US-China summit.
The week before this conversation was recorded, my guest, a 老外 (laowai) sat for an interview with a major Chinese outlet for a piece on US-China youth exchange. He told the reporter wha...
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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.
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