The China Beat

By Christopher C. Heselton On January 25, 2009, Lunar New Year’s Eve, millions of Chinese watched Zhao Benshan’s comedic stylings on the Spr...

We asked China watchers from a variety of backgrounds to answer the question "What should Obama be reading about China?" While we...

By Lauri Paltemaa In December, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated the 30 years anniversary of reforming and opening up policy that becam...

Starbucks has been a glowing beacon of capitalism-on-Chinese-soil (some might say…) for years now, and many took glee in the opening of a St...

By Kate Merkel-Hess The search terms “Obama China” have brought a lot of readers to China Beat over the past two months. We are by no means...

Alex Pasternak has written a couple pieces for China Be at in the past (such as " Beijing's Olympic Forecast "), and so we we...

By Kate Merkel-Hess We aren’t the only ones with advice in regards to China for President Obama of late. For instance, Rebecca MacKinnon rec...

Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote So priketh hem Nature in hir corages- Thanne longe...

(And What was the Strategy for Dealing with the International Criticism on Human Rights)? (This is a shortened version of a paper presente...

Robert Buswell, Association for Asian Studies President, and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the editor of the Journal of Asian Studies  (and a  China ...

By Pierre Fuller A few weeks ago my mother learned at her Greenwich, Conn., church that, beyond church grounds, Bibles cannot be purchased i...

One year ago today, I posted an essay entitled "What Shall We Do with the Dead Dictator?", which discussed the DPP government'...