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China

Historical migration as a vantage point to modern China

20 millions of Chinese emigrated in the years 1840 to 1940. Shelly Chan analyzes modern China from a diaspora perspective and expands our understanding of China and history.
Nina Trige Andersen -

Cinematic portrait painting of today's China

With the camera as a brush, the award-winning film director Xiaoshuai Wang painted portraits of his home country.
Nina Trige Andersen -

A Changing China

Up the Mountain gives a glow into an idyllic village life in Yunnan Province, in a China that stands at a crossroads between old and new.
Bianca-Olivia Nita -

In the shadows of China

Historian Wang Gungwu – known for studying Chinese society – has written his memoirs about an upbringing in British Malaya in the shadow of China that it never became possible to return to.
Nina Trige Andersen -

How will humans learn to live together in the world?

What can the West learn from the East and vice versa when it comes to being human? Learning to be Human was the theme of this year's World Conference in Philosophy in China.
helgard.marhdt@ed.uio -

Social control 4.0

China's digital social credit system operates with a form of gamified control, which rewards users as they score points for behavior inside and outside the network. Within 2020, Chinese authorities are planning to establish a nationwide system. Western commentators react with disgust, but is our own social media really that much better?
kuehnreich@posteo.de -

Dictator country, hand in hand

China's grip on Africa tightens at record speed, while the country is blowing UN sanctions against African dictators and war criminals.
Halle Jørn Hanssen -

The algorithms are everywhere

If current trends in business and consumer culture continue, we may soon have much in common with China's meritocratic and communitarian traditions, writes Mark MacCarthy.
markmac@nytid.no -

Silicon China's emergence

China's technology giants are expanding, and their attitude to data collection and privacy will challenge other countries.
marion@nytid.no -

Revisiting the Cultural Revolution

Tensions increase and tears in common as we follow young Chinese actors as they are trained as Mao Zedong's Red Guardians and relive the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Willemien W. Sanders -

The world's new enemy

John Pilger's documentary is a compelling vision of an upcoming war, and an insistent plea to Western audiences to rethink what they think they know. The movie is now available on DVD.
Carmen Gray -

China's digital glasses

Chinese security authorities have begun to equip the police with "digital glasses" and are already sitting on a data bank where the faces of 1,3 billions of adult people in the country are digitally stored.
Hans-Georg Kohler -

Conversion at all costs

Intense exchanges between Chinese and Western economists pave the way for China's opening of the economy.
Nina Trige Andersen -

China and the new geopolitics

China's new Silk Road is presented as a technical investment project, but has political effects we cannot possibly overlook.
Nina Trige Andersen -

The Chinese dream

Based on the urbanization boom in China, the documentary Dream Empire paints a picture of the absurd and almost dreamlike state in which we live.
Aleksander Huser -

unreality Literature

Authors across the globe would struggle to reliably reproduce what is happening in China. 
Kurt Sweeney -
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