Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a wide-ranging reorganization of the State Department. Though the details of the ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova is a political scientist, China scholar ...

Zha Jianying is a writer, journalist, and cultural commentator in both English and Chinese. She is the author of two books in English, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (named “ ...

Chris Horton is a Taipei-based journalist and author. Prior to moving to Taiwan in 2015, Horton wrote about China’s economic and social transformation throughout the 2000s, primarily from Kunming and ...

Wang Xiao is the pen name of a contributor to the online magazine Mang Mang.

Robert Barnett is a writer and researcher on nationality issues in China, focusing on modern history, politics, and culture in Tibet. His publications include studies of Chinese policies in Tibet, ...

Eva Xiao is a data journalist at the Financial Times, based in New York. Previously, she was a ChinaFile Research Fellow and worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and Agence ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova is a political scientist, China scholar ...

John Delury is a Senior Fellow of the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations and Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) in Seoul, Korea.

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts.

In an autocracy, atomized individuals, without power or influence, seem to have only two options: willingly serve as “social livestock,” or accept their fate and lie flat. But in a society as large as ...

Rune Steenberg is an anthropologist researching the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uyghurs. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Xinjiang, Central Asia, China, and Indonesia and has ...