Why were the Communists under Deng Xiaoping willing to adopt elements of the West’s market economies but not their concept of human rights?
What role does the citizen play in the Chinese communist system?
What hope does democracy have in a post-Deng China?
What role will cities such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Guangzhou play in the 21st-century global economy?
How did the role of women change?
What has happened to such practices as foot binding?
Orville Schell: Once Again, Long Live Chairman Mao, The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1992
Orville Schell: China's Andrei Sakharov, The Atlantic Monthly, May1988
Image Hu Yaobang
Hu's death in April 1989 set off student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square
Hu's death in April 1989 set off student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen-1989 hundreds of images illustrating the events in Tiananmen Square, Peking, April - June 1989
Xiao-huang Yin: China's Gilded Age, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994 The changes in China's society wrought by Deng's drive toward a free-market economy
Atlantic Report: Hong Kong, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1957 Hong Kong still in the early stages of its emergence as an economic powerhouse.
One China, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1996 Coverage by the magazine of China in the 20th century.