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Go East Young Lawyer
An esteemed figure in advancing rule of law in East Asia, Jerome Cohen goes about his life story more in the form of an extraordinarily long dinner…
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Kafka at the Gates of Dawn
A collection of essays by sinologist Perry Link is a could-be autobiography, but thankfully it tells us far more about the bizarre cultural evolution of…
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Saint Jim
The rags-to-riches – and then to-jail – tale of how Jimmy Lai became a billionaire before accepting God and a CCP jail cell is a page-turner despite the…
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So, Beijing Has a Nuclear Pact with Ukraine
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Touchdown, strap in
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'I’m Uyghur by Blood, Chinese by Birth, Taiwanese by Choice'
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Saint Jim
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Beyond 'Banality'
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China's Other Voices
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Tangled up in red
Huawei, telecoms, the Party, and Mao-nostalgia 'cat tax'
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Does Xi dream of communist sheep?
In the Orwellian world of 'Xi Jinping Thought,' the new Great Helmsman and the Party are one; can the Party ever replace him?
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Hacks and other escalations
At the cutting edge of technological sophistication, 'China exceptionalists' are confronted by a modern nation state preparing for war
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Decline and fall
Taiwan legislative kingmaker and spotless 'white knight' slips in the mud of Taiwan politics
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China's Other Voices
Wu'er Kaixi (Uerkesh Davlet), student leader of the protests in 1989, today Secretary General of the Taiwan Parliamentary Human Rights Commission calls…
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Hou not Gou
It's been a tight race and now the die has been cast for Hou You-yi; maintaining KMT party unity will now be the challenge ahead.
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The labs, the leaks – and the silence
A new book sheds light on a disturbing pattern of lab-associated infections that threaten humanity.
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