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How Independent Bookstores in China Are Finding Ways to Survive — and Thrive
Blind-book boxes, revived out-of-print titles, and the quiet power of trust between booksellers and readers.
Jan 16 • Jiang Jiang
Zhipu CEO Zhang Peng on Taking China’s First LLM Company Public
A wide-ranging conversation on AGI timelines, capital cycles, enterprise AI, and China’s AI competition, originally on the 張小珺Xiaojùn Podcast
Jan 11 • Jiang Jiang
How China’s City Leaders Work
Insights from a decade-long dataset on Party secretaries and mayors
Dec 19, 2025 • Jiang Jiang
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Story of teens at a transgender clinic in Beijing
Jan 15, 2023 • Jinglin Gao and Jiang Jiang
Will China continue to grow? -- views from Weijian Shan
Nov 14, 2023 • Yuzhe HE and Jiang Jiang
Decoding Chinese mainland's response to Taiwan election results
Jan 13, 2024 • Jiang Jiang
The pause that powers a province: Shanxi’s midday shutdown
May 15, 2025 • Jiang Jiang
Full text: 2024 New Year Address by President Xi Jinping
Dec 31, 2023 • Jiang Jiang
Guest Essay | Shatter the mirror
Oct 27, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Weijian Shan

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Guest Essay | Shatter the mirror
By Weijian Shan, Executive Chairman of PAG, a private equity firm, and the book author of Out of the Gobi, Money Games, and Money Machine
Oct 27, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Weijian Shan
Chairman Rabbit on U.S. administration's tariff retreat regarding Chinese electronics
"For China and the rest of the world, the task is clear: see through America’s logic, abandon illusions, and focus on our own path."
Apr 14, 2025 • Jiang Jiang
Reunification between two sides of Taiwan Straits: a human geography perspective
The current cross-Straits situation is in the second stage of the development of the Taiwan question.
Apr 8, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Yifei Shi
Ginger River Review
Ginger River Review
Covering the priorities of both the leadership and the general public in China and views you do not normally see from mainstream English-language media

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Full Text: Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National…
Today’s biggest piece of China news is here.
Oct 28, 2025 • Jiang Jiang
Where does China’s growth potential lie? -- views from Weijian Shan
A mid-year reflection on China’s economy
Jul 16, 2025 • Jiang Jiang
Chairman Rabbit on China-U.S. trade deal
A key pathway to resolving China-U.S. economic tensions lies in the U.S. producing more and China consuming more. While the former is a tall order, the…
May 12, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Yifei Shi
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Society

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How Independent Bookstores in China Are Finding Ways to Survive — and Thrive
Blind-book boxes, revived out-of-print titles, and the quiet power of trust between booksellers and readers.
Jan 16 • Jiang Jiang
How China’s City Leaders Work
Insights from a decade-long dataset on Party secretaries and mayors
Dec 19, 2025 • Jiang Jiang
The post-2000 generation in China: A social mentality perspective
An academic look at youth mentality, work, identity, and everyday life
Dec 12, 2025 • Jiang Jiang
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Tech

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Zhipu CEO Zhang Peng on Taking China’s First LLM Company Public
A wide-ranging conversation on AGI timelines, capital cycles, enterprise AI, and China’s AI competition, originally on the 張小珺Xiaojùn Podcast
Jan 11 • Jiang Jiang
China’s EV Pioneers: What China’s EV revolution looks like through the lens of XPeng’s founder (part 2)
He Xiaopeng on China’s EV future, design and autonomy, and his bet on flying cars
Sep 11, 2025 • Bowen Xiao, Yifei Shi, and Jiang Jiang
China’s EV Pioneers: What China’s EV revolution looks like through the lens of XPeng’s founder (part 1)
He Xiaopeng on ambition, reinvention, and AI-driven cars
Sep 9, 2025 • Jiang Jiang and Bowen Xiao
China’s EV Pioneers: What a four-hour conversation with Li Xiang reveals about China’s EV revolution
How China’s most influential tech leaders think about business, life, and the future
Aug 29, 2025 • Jiang Jiang, Yifei Shi, and Bowen Xiao

Xi's speeches

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The rise of China's central region
Good evening, everyone.
Mar 21, 2024 • Jiang Jiang, Shen Anni, Yiting Zhang, and Rosie Sun
Xi Jinping's "new quality productive forces": Meaning, significance, and implementation
And a full-text readout on Xi Jinping's key remarks on Tuesday
Mar 6, 2024 • Jiang Jiang, Li Huiyan, and Rosie Sun
A quick review of Xi Jinping's speech on the development of China's financial sector
The path for financial development with Chinese characteristics is different in nature from the mode of Western financial development.
Jan 17, 2024 • Jiang Jiang, Giustino Jiao, and Yiting Zhang
Full text: 2024 New Year Address by President Xi Jinping
Happy new year!
Dec 31, 2023 • Jiang Jiang
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