https://www.scmp.com/rss/501989/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis, by Jiwei Ci, Harvard University Press, 4 stars It somehow always feels in season to ponder when the Chinese Communist Party will have to grapple with a real challenge to its rule, and to discuss whether democratic governance is in China’s future. In Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis, Jiwei Ci, a philosophy professor at the University of Hong Kong, makes an elaborate but cogent argument about how the party will only overcome its illegitimacy, along with... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3050910/why-china-must-complete-transition-political-democracy-sake?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3050910/why-china-must-complete-transition-political-democracy-sake?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:00:17 +0000 The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America, by Nancy E. Davis. Published by Oxford University Press. 4 stars. It requires an inventive streak to write extensively about a person whose known biography only fills a few pages. This is the long shot taken in The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America, by historian Nancy E. Davis, who refers to her as “the first Chinese woman to arrive in America”. Davis’s ambition pays off. She augments scant available material about Moy, who was brought to the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3025450/cultural-prop-circus-freak-first-chinese-woman-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3025450/cultural-prop-circus-freak-first-chinese-woman-us?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:00:04 +0000