
A 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.
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You can learn a great deal about an academic field from what it chooses to argue about. For most of its first decade, China’s international relations scholarship argued about itself. The defining questions were internal and foundational: wh...
China’s new global governance white paper does not read like a revolutionary manifesto. Its register is conservative, even custodial, built on the language of the UN Charter, international law, and the rights of developing states. But the c...
The image the studio chose to sell Road to Empress (《盛世天下》) shows the woman who becomes China’s only female emperor standing in a ring of the women who were once her rivals, documents scattered across the floor around her, beneath a line of...
The invitation, when it came, used the gentlest verb the language has. 要不要去散散心? Do you want to come scatter the heart a little. It is the phrase Chinese friends reach for when they can see, without being told, that something in you has seiz...
Reckoning with the disruption of being Chinese
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 Indu...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
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.
History/media/International relations
Based in Shanghai
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