Gateway to Global China
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The Poetic Justice of Queer China
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From royal court legends to a 17th-centurydeity, gay people have been part of Chinese life and literature for millennia. Since the 1990s, legal reform...
Being Muslim in China
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This month, China’s National People’s Congress held its annual meeting and passed a new law on ‘promoting ethnic unity and progress’. The legi...
Hong Kong in Protest, Redux
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, more than a million people poured onto the streets of Hong Kong, with many returning week after week. The song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ soon ...
Labour and (De)Industrialisation in East Asia
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few years, industrial policy and manufacturing capacity, especially in the high-tech sector, have been at the centre of great power riva...
Inside Southeast Asia’s Scam Compounds
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rejecting calls from an unknown number, blocking suspicious accounts on social media, turning down a job offer too good to be true: these days, almost...
Typing Chinese
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1947, the acclaimed Chinese writer and linguist Lin Yutang stunned the world with an invention: the first Chinese-language typewriter with a keyboa...
Being a Journalist in China
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For some in the West, being a journalist in China—especially one at a state media organisation—is seen as little more than parroting party propaga...
Legacies of Covid-19
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the inaugural episode of 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, Yangyang spoke with Jing Wang and Christian Sorace about the legacies of Covid-1...