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“... the way to counter such misinterpretation is cultural exchange: then Chinese travelling abroad can see what Western democracy really is, while those at home can receive unbiased information from foreign experts. As in the days of the Boxer Rebellion, ‘exchange’, it seems, is not a two-way process. A major reason for ...”

“... in Plot – was released in 2009, he got embroiled in a legal dispute about self-plagiarism. I can’t recall any of his exploits – novel, film or TV adaptation – that hasn’t caused a stir. Until now Decoded, his first novel, published in China in 2002, was the least popular of his books (he called it ‘undervalued’), but Penguin’s decision to ...”

“... we throw a nice dinner party to celebrate their return to normal life. It’s the most we can hope for in 2020: a normal life. Other friends who are still stuck abroad (unable to get a flight or a visa) are missing a succession of delicacies: the crayfish season, the lychee season, the waxberry season, the durian season, the gordon euryale seed ...”

“... Men would approach him with the same opening line: ‘My girlfriend/wife is a huge fan of yours. Can I take a selfie with you to impress her?’ When he was asked about male fans, he replied: ‘It’s hopeless. They only want to play games now. If men come to see my show, they are dragged there by their girlfriend.’ The profile of the audience affects ...”

“... and others – found a receptive audience in some Chinese economists, particularly Wu Jinglian and Xue Muqiao, and as the need for a suitable market reform mechanism became more urgent, the prospect of complete price deregulation – the big bang – started to haunt policy discussion. Its advocates claimed it would resolve the inflationary pressures that had ...”

“... nods in the direction of the opaque language of cultural studies, the book is clearly argued, and can be read by non-specialists without the need for translation from Foucauldian into English. The story is told in what might seem to be reverse order: the first part is about the campaigns against footbinding and its eventual disappearance in the early 20th ...”

“... Singapore, the US and Australia, with outposts in Japan and Europe’. Mainland websites such as Xue er si (‘Study and Thought’) link to the influential Hong Kong magazine Ershi yi Shiji (‘21st Century’), which in turn connects with the wider diaspora. The second change is the growing autonomy of Chinese intellectuals. The Party no longer requires ...”

“... of Information Act. He does not go into detail on how he achieved this or where these documents can be found by other researchers today, but thanks to the FOIA, he obtained relevant documents from the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the State Department, the Air Combat Command and the Los Alamos National ...”

“... he calls the shift from classical studies to poetry a descent into ‘triviality’. Philosophy can be just as trivial. The vast territorial expansion of the Qing generated a profusion of genres: travel writing, diaries, frontier poetry and incipient ethnography. The Qing was also a golden age of political economy, inspiring debates on subjects such as ...”

“... rule, China’s inequality figures are dramatically worse than those of the UK and even the US. Can we call that ‘socialism’? It’s equally hard to claim China as a triumph of capitalism, given the completeness of state control over most areas of life and the extent of its open interventions in the national economy – capital controls, for ...”