Nearly a year ago, I launched this blog as a way to organize some of my thoughts on the US-China relationship in an effort to find clarity on issues that I’d started to consider while living in China and during graduate school in New York City. I did not expect more than a few readers to drop by, nor [...]
Saul Gitlin (冀碩臨)- Executive Vice-President of top rated Asia-focused multicultural advertising agency Kang & Lee, founder of a popular LinkedIn group for Chinese-speaking professionals, mentor to budding Sinophiles, gifted storyteller and a scholar in his own right- is approaching thirty years of connection to China. I sat down with Mr. Gitlin, who is currently working [...]
China’s intensifying crackdown on media cannot be disputed; in recent months the Great Firewall has impacted the ability to access information through outlets like Twitter and Facebook while China’s government has employed new tactics in an attempt to have some control over the news. And, with instances of unrest as seen in Xinjiang and Shishou, [...]
Proposed reforms to strengthen global environmental integrity have recently focused on two key nations, the US and China, requiring intense commitment and compromise from both parties. China continues to make efforts toward building a “greener” country, but it also struggles to find a balance between economic development and environmental responsibility. Joel B. Eisen, a Fulbright [...]
When I first came across Xujun Eberlein’s bio, I could not help but wonder what would propel a PhD from MIT to trade algorithms in for writing. It was not until I read her book, Apologies Forthcoming, that I understood. Author Pamela Erens describes Xujun’s latest fiction as “intimate, melancholy, comic, sensuous… Social history informs [...]
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