Articles by Cheng Li  (click title to read article)

1/1/1996 ICWA	Rediscovering China - "As Long as Books are Opened, Minds will not be Closed"
8/20/1995 ICWA	Back to the Past: Part II - Can Capitalism Solve China’s Problems?
8/10/1995 ICWA	Back to the Past" Part I - China on the Eve of Capitalist Takeover?
8/1/1995 ICWA	"Shanghai: City for Sale": Part II - "Construction Fever" and "Relocationphobia" of Urban Residents
7/15/1995 ICWA	"Shanghai: City for Sale" Part I - Land Leasing and Foreign Investment in China’s Largest City
7/1/1995 ICWA	'To Live is Not to Breathe: It is to Act' - Dai Qing and her Notion of a Chinese Intellectual
6/1/1995 ICWA	Who Created China’s Economic Miracle?
5/1/1995 ICWA	Visiting an SOE and Claiming an IOU
4/15/1995 ICWA	On the Road to Subei: The Transportation Bottleneck in China’s Development
4/1/1995 ICWA	Shanghai Surprises: Unless We Behold We Cannot Understand
3/1/1995 ICWA	Sunan: Where the Rural Industrial Revolution Changes China’s Landscape: Part IV- Huaxi Village: A "Mini-Singapore" in China
1/1/1995 ICWA	Sunan: Where the Rural Industrial Revolution Changes China’s Sunan: Where the Rural Industrial Revolution Changes China’s Model of China’s Urbanization
12/20/1994 ICWA	Sunan: Where the Rural Industrial Revolution Changes China’s Landscape: Part II "A New Force Suddenly Coming to the Fore"
12/10/1994 ICWA	Sunan: Where the Rural Industrial Revolution Changes China’s Landscape: Part 1 Sunan’s Miracle: "Seeing is Believing"
12/1/1994 ICWA	Under Neon Lights: Street People in Shanghai
7/20/1994 ICWA	Human Life & Human Responsibility: A Yangtze Three Gorges Adventure: Part III - "Damn Dam"
7/10/1994 ICWA	Human Life & Human Responsibility" A Yangtze Three Gorges Adventure: Part II -"Gorgeous Gorges!"
7/5/1994 ICWA	Human Life & Human Responsibility: A Yangtze Three Gorges Adventure: Part I - "The First Impressions’s a Lasting Impression"
7/1/1994 ICWA	The Yin and Yand ofEast Asia: Part III - Techno-Nationalism vs. Techno-Globalism: East Asia in Search of a New Vision for the 21 st Century
6/15/1994 ICWA	The Yin and Yand of East Asia: Part II The Meeting of East and West
6/1/1994 ICWA	Tidal Wave of Migrant Laborers in China: Part II "200 Million Mouths Too Many"
5/25/1994 ICWA	Tidal Wave of Migrant Laborers in China: Part I -"94ers" Eastward Ho!"
5/15/1994 ICWA	The Yin and Yang of East Asia Part I - "East Asian Threat?"
5/1/1994 ICWA	China’s "Yuppie Corps"’ Part II College Networks of the "Best and the Brightest"
4/1/1994 ICWA	China’s "Yuppie Corps"" Part I Conversation with a Chinese Technocrat
2/1/1994 ICWA	China’s Falsities & China’s Future: Part III "Political Forecast: A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing"
1/1/1994 ICWA	China’s Falsities & China’s Future’ Part II ’Daxing" A Most Frequently Used Idiom in Shanghai"
12/1/1993 ICWA	China’s Falsities & China’s Future: Part I - "Calling Things by Their Real Names"
10/15/1993 ICWA	"The Color of Money": Shanghai Impressions
10/1/1993 ICWA	Leaving Home to Go Home

From the Archive

Trying out loungers at Beijing’s IKEA, 2004

“At first glance, this group may not look so impressive with its collective rear end sinking into the cushions. However, according to political scientists as well as some of my own (middle class) Chinese friends, these are the people who will quite likely determine the future of the country’s political system, and thus, the direction of China as a whole. The basic idea here is that an increasingly wealthy middle class focused on safeguarding its property will be more likely than any other force to push for democratic and legal reforms; you need a bourgeois class before you can have a bourgeois ‘revolution’.” [read newsletter]

—Alexander Brenner

China

ICWA Fellow (2003-2005)