The form is built to leave you no exit. An episode runs sixty to ninety seconds and ends on a reversal: the woman everyone ...

Alexander V. Pantsov is Professor of History and holds the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of The Bolsheviks and the ...

Howard W. French is an Associate Professor at the Columbia Journalism School, where he teaches journalism and photography. He was a freelance reporter for The Washington Post, and many other ...

This weekend, China’s leaders gather in Beijing for meetings widely expected to determine the shape of China’s economy, as well as the nation’s progress, over the next decade. What exactly the outcome ...

Johanna S. Ransmeier (任思梅) is a social and legal historian of modern China. She is currently an Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago where she also serves on the faculty board ...

Xu Zhangrun was a professor of law at Tsinghua University and the author of a series of prominent essays critiquing the leadership of Xi Jinping.

Kenneth Roth is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Until August 2022, he served for nearly three decades as the Executive ...

Ilaria Maria Sala was born in Italy and grew up in Bologna and Florence. She has studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Beijing Normal University, and Beijing University. After a few ...

This year is the 35th anniversary of the 1989 mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and elsewhere around China, and their brutal suppression on June 4. The memories of these events are ...

Jessica Batke is a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and a Senior Fellow at ChinaFile, where she researches China’s internet censorship system and its wider impacts on ...

Ira Belkin is Executive Director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at New York University. Before joining NYU, he was a program officer at the Ford Foundation in Beijing, where he worked on law and ...

Jeremy Goldkorn is an editor and writer whose work has focused on China, and he is an Editorial Fellow with ChinaFile. He co-founded the Sinica Podcast in 2010, and was Editor-in-Chief of The China ...