Rune Steenberg is an anthropologist researching the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uyghurs. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Xinjiang, Central Asia, China, and Indonesia and has ...

Sara Segal-Williams is ChinaFile’s Senior Editor for Copy. She holds a B.A. from Bard College, where she concentrated in Chinese History, and an M.A. in International Relations from Central European ...

Over the past several years, China has enjoyed one of the world’s fastest growing economies and has been a major contributor to world economic growth. However, the current global financial crisis ...

The Impact of Introducing a Minimum Wage on Business Cycle Volatility: A Structural Analysis for Hong Kong SAR We study the impact of a minimum wage on business cycle volatility, depending upon its ...

The bilateral relationship between the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is vitally important, touching on a wide range of areas including, among others, economic policy, security, foreign ...

Asia Pacfic Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the 2008 Meetings in Lima, Peru Congress and the Executive Branch have historically identified the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) as an important ...

In this paper, we examine returns in the Chinese A and B stock markets for evidence of calendar anomalies. We find that both cultural and structural (segmentation) factors play an important role in ...

Staff Report of the People’s Republic of China—Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: 2010 Article IV Consultation Discussions Two potent forces continue to influence Hong Kong SAR's prospects: the ...

Measuring health workforce inequalities: methods and application to China and India is for users and producers of quantitative data in support of decision-making for health policy and practice, ...

China, America, and the Pivot to Asia Despite the United States’ focus on the Middle East and the Islamic world for the past decade, the most important international political developments in the ...

Enter the Dragon and the Elephant Among the emerging powers, China and India have long been critical to successfully addressing global health problems. Historically, infectious diseases that ...

Over the past decade, China’s growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports has widened substantially. Several economies within China’s supply chain are ...