China

Wang Hui, Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow in the School of Historical Studies, has been included in Prospect Magazine's annual list of Top Thinkers. His work is described as an "indispensable reference point for those seeking to understand China as it is today and where it might be going."

By Jonathan Haslam, past George F. Kennan Professor (2015–21) in the School of Historical Studies:

"Just a few weeks before Vladimir Putin launched what he intended as a two-day Blitzkrieg in Ukraine, taking by surprise even some of his inner circle, he met Xi Jinping for a summit in Beijing. It appeared to the world as if the Chinese might have been implicated in what is the foreign policy gamble of Putin’s political career."

In an article for Law & Liberty published on the thirtieth anniversary of Tiananmen Square, Teng Biao, a rights lawyer who left China in 2014 and a former Visitor (2016–17) in the School of Social Science, explains how the extinguishment of the...

"China’s rising threat to international freedom and democracy has become a hot topic,” said Teng Biao, a Chinese human rights lawyer and former Visitor in the School of Social Science, in an interview about the country's influence in the West.

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‘The human rights lawyers play the most important role in civil society,’’ says Teng Biao, a former Visitor (2016–17) in the School of Social Science and a rights lawyer who left China in 2014. ‘‘Whenever there is a blogger or a church leader or a...

Klaus Larres, Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of Historical Studies and Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give a...

Klaus Larres, current Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of Historical Studies, joins a panel discussion hosted by The Heat, a CCTV-America program on political issues, to discuss the China-Germany trade relationship...

Klaus Larres, Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of Historical Studies, discusses how a visit to China by Germany’s economics minister highlighted a blunter approach to bilateral relations.

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Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, examines The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State by Fang Lizhi, in The New York Review of Books. Lizhi, a Member in the School of Natural...