China’s Agricultural Revolution: remembering Deng, 20 years later

Just over 20 years ago, Deng Xiaoping, a giant of 20th century politics, passed away. In…

China in 2016: A Random Walk in a Confusing Time

Yinuo Li

This is an edited version of my latest email to colleagues at the Gates Foundation, which is part of the bi-weekly Get Smart on China email series we’ve been doing since June 2015.

Does China have a “Giving Season” ?

Phil Nelson, Anthony Gao and Yinuo Li

This is an edited version of one of my “Get Smart on China” emails sent to colleagues on Nov 18th 2015.

Education in China — Secret Weapon or Ticking Time Bomb?

Nobel Prize and Tu Youyou — from Gun Powder to Antimalarial Drug

China Is Just Three Miles Away

Yinuo Li

This is an edited version of one of my “Get Smart on China” emails sent to colleagues on July 15th 2015. Phil Nelson also contributed to this Article.

“Bull in a China Shop” — Who we are, and Why you should be reading us

Airpocalypse: Get Smart on Smog

Contributed by Philip Nelson

If there is one word that has been impossible to escape in China over the past couple of weeks, it is this one: 雾霾. Pronounced “woo my” in Chinese, it means “smog”, and in the last few years it has become the nemesis of…