As China’s influence grows on the world stage, the specter of China looms ever larger in the political machinations of the US and its allies, while the promise of China as an humane alternative contin...

Known as the March First Independence Movement, an unprecedented wave of mass protests with people shouting tongrip manse (long live independence) swept across Korea on March 1, 1919. On this day, rel...

I first met Gao Xiaoxian in 1992 at a conference at Peking University, but even before that I had heard about her extraordinary work with the Women’s Federation and her deep knowledge of life in the S...

Covert colonialism: Governance, surveillance and political culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97. Florence Mok. Manchester University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781526158192. Price: £85.00  | Reviewed by ...

As someone who grew up in Shenzhen in the 1980s-1990s and has lived in the US since 2000, I’ve come to see returning to the Special Economic Zone today as a journey “back to the future.” During my las...

On the morning of July 18, 2024, our phones were suddenly flooded with images of injured students – our campus was under attack. Students protesting the nationwide escalation of police brutality again...

episteme issue 11 explores Chinese labor history through class consciousness, labor activism, and worker democracy from the late-Qing period to the post-Mao era. I would like to mark the recent passin...

There's dwindling money for China research. University faculty can try to revive an ugly old bargain or build something new.

What's now called for in every classroom.

On January 12, 2025, just days before the short video platform TikTok was pressured to shut down in the U.S., a sensational “migration” began. Millions of American internet users flocked to the Chines...

“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

An economic populism for the majority – irrespective of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation – is the way forward, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Cameras made by Hikvision, which is blacklisted in US, blanket the occupied West Bank, according to Amnesty International