This November, two unrelated festivals of independent Chinese-language films are taking place outside of China. The CiLENS ...

Despite dominating global production, China has a polysilicon problem. Having subsidized and encouraged production of this critical ingredient in solar cells and panels, the country now faces massive ...

The new documentary feature film Mistress Dispeller probes the unraveling and redemption of a marriage at breathtakingly ...

Emma Belmonte is a freelance journalist and a China Research Fellow for the Association for International Affairs (AMO). After gaining expertise in Chinese-speaking regions at the University of ...

Tina Kanagaratnam is a co-founder of Historic Shanghai, established in 1998 with the goal of raising awareness of Shanghai’s unique history through research, city walks, and events. She is the author ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Farwa Aamer is the Director of South Asia Initiatives at the Asia ...

Jack Neubauer is a historian of China and the modern world. He received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University and completed the research and writing for his first book, The Adoption Plan: ...

Zha Jianying is a writer, journalist, and cultural commentator in both English and Chinese. She is the author of two books in English, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (named “ ...

Chris Horton is a Taipei-based journalist and author. Prior to moving to Taiwan in 2015, Horton wrote about China’s economic and social transformation throughout the 2000s, primarily from Kunming and ...

Wang Xiao is the pen name of a contributor to the online magazine Mang Mang.

Rune Steenberg is an anthropologist researching the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uyghurs. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Xinjiang, Central Asia, China, and Indonesia and has ...

Robert Barnett is a writer and researcher on nationality issues in China, focusing on modern history, politics, and culture in Tibet. His publications include studies of Chinese policies in Tibet, ...