China's power sector - great growth but at great cost, says Thomas Rawski
Chapter 8: Growth, Upgrading, and Excess Cost in China’s Electric Power Sector By Thomas G. Rawski This chapter reviews the recent...
China's semiconductor industry, including Huawei - little prospect of reaching global innovation
Chapter 7: Growth, Upgrading, and Limited Catch-Up in China’s Semiconductor Industry by Douglas B. Fuller The rapid evolution of...
China State Grid second only to Walmart in terms of revenue in 2016, says Xu Yi-chong
Chapter 6: The Search for High Power in China: State Grid Corporation of China by XU Yi-chong State Grid Corp of China is now the...
China's electricity sector - central control vs local priorities, says Michael Davidson
Michael Davidson in Chapter 4, "Technology Integration in China’s Electricity System: Central Targets and Local Challenges" Technological...
Does China's pursuit of global Internet leadership mean weakening its authority at home?
Pursuing "digital capitalism" was China's response to the great financial crisis of 2008, writes Yu Hong in her new book Networking...
Asian American overacheivers - ethnic stereotypes, war, peace, and immigration policy
Ethnic stereotypes can be rooted in empirical reality, but that reality can be war, peace, and immigration policy. The stereotype of...
Soccer: the sublimated battlefield of the revolutionary
While research on Politics + [Movies / Literature / Music] is common, where is the work on Politics + [Sports]? James Dorsey’s “The...
Flâneuses, footloose and fancy free
Flâneuse-ing is the feminine art of traveling to see, not to be seen; to tell, and not be hold, as we learn from Lauren Elkin’s Flâneuse:...
How Netflix eats the movie studios' lunch
Ebook sales don’t affect the hardcover sales of most books and, further, delaying ebook release reduces ebook sales as much as 40%,...
John Kenneth Galbraith had Rolf Wagenfuhr kidnapped in order to calculate Germany’s Gross National P
Philipp Lepenies reminds us statistics are no stranger to skullduggery. In his book on the political history of GDP, during World War II...
