Tag: china
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Mandarin Idioms, Ouyang Xiu and Medieval and Modern China
Sloganeering and some literary history in China – real sightseeing stuff today.
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Local Zoning and Hukou – Systems of Mobility Management in the US and China
I want to compare the restrictions on mobility imposed by local control of zoning in the US with the top-down system used in China – rather remarkably, the natural whims of homeowners in Marin County and the Upper West Side have come to align with the technocrats at the CCP.
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Misreading Malthus – The Life and Death of Family Planning Policy in China
Why did the Chinese government seek to grow rich by shrinking its population?
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Review: Peter Zeihan, “Disunited Nations”
If geopolitics ever found itself in need of a fabulist, it could do worse than to give Peter Zeihan a call. To be fair, geopolitics today does need a fabulist – one of the wittier passages in Zeihan’s recent book, Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World, concerns the moment in 1990…
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