Places
How Pudong Rose From Shanghai’s Farmland
Stand on the Bund in central Shanghai after dark and look east across the Huangpu River and it is difficult to imagine that the forest of towers on the opposite bank is a relatively recent creation.
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People
Martin Jacques and the End of Western Certainty
When Martin Jacques published When China Rules the World in 2009, China was already impossible to ignore.
Economy
China’s Railways Across Africa
Across the African continent, railway tracks stretch through mountains, deserts, crowded cities, agricultural regions and vast open landscapes, carrying passengers and freight between places that were once separated by journeys lasting many hours or even days.
Science & Tech
The Limits of US–China AI Cooperation
A question that refuses to sit still Every few weeks, the same question returns in a slightly different form. The United States and China hold talks on artificial intelligence.
Culture
Why Chinese Has Two Official Scripts
A mainland newspaper and a Hong Kong magazine can carry the same news in the same spoken Mandarin, but the printed characters look like two different languages. The mainland page reads 报纸, the Hong Kong page reads 報紙.
Science & Tech
How China Became the World’s Biggest Nuclear Builder
China runs the largest nuclear construction programme on earth.
Science & Tech
How China Built the J-20 Stealth Fighter
The Chengdu J-20 is the fighter aeroplane that changed the shape of air power in Asia.
History
Red Dawn Over China and the Communist Victory
In February 2026 Bloomsbury published Frank Dikötter’s Red Dawn Over China, a book with a question baked into its subtitle: how communism conquered a quarter of humanity.
People
Chiang Kai-shek From the Mainland to Taiwan
Chiang Kai-shek was born in a Zhejiang market town in 1887, while the Qing still governed China, and died in Taipei in 1975 as president of a republic that had lost the mainland a quarter century earlier.
Science & Tech
Three Paths Back to Western Chip Fabrication
The argument of this essay is narrow. The West is rebuilding chip fabrication on its own soil. The build-out is real, partly funded, partly producing, partly still a press release.
Science & Tech
Chip War and the World’s Chokepoints
Chris Miller’s Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, published by Scribner in 2022, is not a gadget book.
Science & Tech
How TSMC Came to Underpin the Chip Race
The argument of this essay is narrow and specific.
