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The Peking Express
We welcomed Beijing-based author and lawyer James Zimmerman to discuss his book, The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China (2023). The Peking…
The initiative hosts a variety of on-site events, book talks, forums, and town halls covering different aspects of the U.S.-China relationship. These events address a range of topics including China’s economic development, China’s impact on the technology sector, U.S.-China agricultural trade, and increasing U.S.-China competition.
We welcomed Beijing-based author and lawyer James Zimmerman to discuss his book, The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China (2023). The Peking…
While geopolitical tensions continue to define much of the U.S.-China relationship, changing domestic politics in both countries — often underappreciated and little understood — have become a major…
The past is a battleground in many countries, but in China it is crucial to political power. In traditional China, dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors…
The U.S.-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals: The New Era of U.S.-China Strategic Competition (2023), a distinguished group of scholars from the United States…
China in Twentieth-and Twenty-First-Century African Literature (2023) unpacks the complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond. In this new work on…
The intense competition between the two strategic frameworks used by China and the United States respectively is the fundamental reason for the high degree of uncertainty in the development of…