Tumblr- "My heart goes out to the people living in hardship. In Sanhe Village of Liangshan in Sichuan..." January 4, 2019“My heart goes out to the people living in hardship. In Sanhe Village of Liangshan in Sichuan Province, I visited the families of two villagers from the Yi people. In Sanjianxi Village in Jinan City in Shandong Province, I sat down with the family of Zhao Shunli to hear about their day-to-day lives. In the Donghuayuan community in the city of Fushun in Liaon […]
- "AT A RECENT CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION, one of the assembled venture capitalists wondered aloud, while..." December 4, 2018“AT A RECENT CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION, one of the assembled venture capitalists wondered aloud, while discussing China, whether “democracy and capitalism are compatible.” This man clearly preferred the latter and seemed to consider China as practicing a particularly aggressive, and thereby enviable, form of it.” - Silicon Valley’s Chinese Dream | The Baffler […]
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Has China Reached a Turning Point? No. It’s reached four.
I was invited to participate in a symposium hosted at Quinnipiac University on “A Resurgent China.” The suggested topic was “Has China Reached a Tipping Point?” After ensuring that I could slightly edge the discussion away from Malcolm Gladwell, I agreed. … Continue reading
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Sub-national Data in International Relations
We live in a complex world and tell all kinds of different stories about its machinations. Social science can be thought of as attempting to systematize and improve our knowledge of the way that the world works. Sometimes this involves … Continue reading
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