In November 2013 China's ruling Communist Party, headed by Xi Jinping, held a widely anticipated meeting of its central committee. This plenary session approved a sixty point decision outlining a new wave of reforms…
Starting with a revenue collection funtion, Customs has evolved its mission to include a contribution to economic competitiveness by improving transparency and efficiency of supply chain while protecting health,…
Talk abstract: The Ming dynasty (1368-1644) was one of a constellation of successor states to emerge out the collapse of the Mongol empire in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Polities and peoples in much of…
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| Annenberg School for Communication, Room 500, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
For more than 30 years, the annual variety show on Chinese Central Television (CCTV) called Spring Festival Gala (Chunwan) has been a state-sponsored enactment of the Chinese nation. For its 2014 installment, some…
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| Silverstein Forum in the Stiteler Hall 1st Floor
Beijing's extensive engagement with the developing world suggests an inexorably rising China, securing a degree of economic and political dominance unthinkable a decade ago. Yet, China’s experience with its…