Science & Tech
CXMT Has Reached the Flagship Tier
Chinese smartphone makers are putting domestically made memory into machines that used to reserve that slot for imports alone.
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Economy
China Did Not Stumble Into Battery Dominance
Western commentary on China’s electric vehicle rise still reaches for the same tidy explanation. China assembled other people’s ideas with cheap labour.
History
The Dungan Revolt Belongs Beside the Taiping
If the Taiping Rebellion is the nineteenth century Chinese catastrophe that still escapes Western textbooks, the Dungan Revolt is the catastrophe beside the catastrophe.
History
The Taiping Rebellion Was Not a Side Story
Western narratives of the nineteenth century still organise themselves around European wars, American expansion, and the slow rise of industrial capitalism.
History
The Grand Canal Was China’s First Network State
Western accounts of Chinese power still reach first for walls, emperors, and armies. Those things mattered. They also miss something quieter and more durable.
Places
When Quanzhou Was the Centre of the World
Long before Shanghai’s skyline and Shenzhen’s factories, a Fujian port city quietly ran the busiest maritime marketplace on Earth, and its story still shapes how China thinks about the sea.
Science & Tech
Zhongguo Surprises
For decades, Western commentary has repeatedly predicted that China was approaching the limits of what it could achieve technologically.
Science & Tech
China’s Push for Its Own Lithography
For more than a decade, one company has occupied perhaps the most strategically important position in the global semiconductor industry.
Science & Tech
China’s Using AI to Reinvent Chip Design
China’s semiconductor strategy is entering a new phase.
Places
Shenzhen Futian Station
It does look rather odd when you stand inside Futian Railway Station: an enormous, expensive underground complex in the middle of Shenzhen’s CBD, yet compared with Shenzhen North, relatively few long-distance trains seem to use it.
Science & Tech
China’s First Glass Chip Packaging
Glass seems an unlikely material for a computer chip. It is best known for windows, bottles and screens, and ordinary glass barely conducts electricity.
Economy
What Lords of the Rim Got Right
The West thought China’s advantage was cheap labour. That now looks like one of the great economic misreadings of the past half century. Cheap labour certainly mattered.
