Martin Bernal was born in London in 1937. He studied at Kings College in Cambridge, and in 1959 attended Peking University. After taking his degree he did graduate work at Cambridge, the University ...

Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, Oranges & Peanuts for Sale, and the forthcoming The Ghosts of Birds. His political articles are collected in ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Blake Berger is an Assistant Director at the Asia Society Policy ...

Jessica Batke is ChinaFile’s Senior Editor for Investigations. She researches China’s domestic political and social affairs, and served as the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research ...

Anthropologist Darren Byler is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony ...

Shen Lu is a U.S.-based reporter. Mengwen Cao is a photographer, artist, and educator. Born and raised in China, they are currently based in New York. As a queer immigrant, they use care and ...

Perry Link is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Princeton University and Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California at Riverside. He has published ...

Andrew M. Fischer is Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also the Scientific ...

Robert Foyle Hunwick is a Beijing-based writer, editor, and media consultant who has written for publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Esquire. His forthcoming book about vice and ...

This weekend, China’s leaders gather in Beijing for meetings widely expected to determine the shape of China’s economy, as well as the nation’s progress, over the next decade. What exactly the outcome ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Sun Peidong has been an Associate Professor of History, the ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Ryan Hass is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he is ...