ChinaFile will screen Leslie Tai’s documentary film How to Have an American Baby, which explores the industry built to ...

Geremie R.Barmé is a historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, translator, and web-journal editor who works on Chinese cultural and intellectual history from the early modern period (1600s) to the ...

While many people assume Chinese politics has been a one-man show since Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Communist Party in November 2012, the truth is more complicated. Recent signals ...

On April 22, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a wide-ranging reorganization of the State Department. Though the details of the restructuring have yet to be published, it seems clear that human ...

Both private sector players and the Chinese government are investing huge amounts of money and throwing top-tier engineering talent at areas such as quantum computing, biotech and health sciences, AI, ...

In 1965, one of Mao Zedong’s most loyal lieutenants, the political theorist Chen Boda, came up with a bold scheme for industrial development in China: centering the electronics industry. Mao seemed ...