China Story Yearbook
The China Story Yearbook series collects and shapes Chinese contemporary stories from multiple voices and different perspectives under an annual theme for a broad and interested public and professional audience. It presents the larger Chinese realities, possibilities and uncertainties, and suggests how the past and present may sculpt the future.
Please note: The following list of titles is sorted by publication date, with the most recent first.
China Dreams »
The year 2019 marked a number of significant anniversaries for the People’s Republic of China (PRC), each representing different ‘Chinese dreams’. There was the centennial of the May Fourth Movement — a dream of patriotism and cultural renewal.
Power »
In 2018, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was, by most measures, more powerful than at any other time in its history and had become one of the most powerful countries in the world.
Prosperity »
A ‘moderately prosperous society’ with no Chinese individual left behind—that’s the vision for China set out by Chinese President Xi Jinping in a number of important speeches in 2017.
Control »
‘More cosmopolitan, more lively, more global’ is how the China Daily summed up the year 2016 in China.
Pollution »
Environmental pollution poses serious challenges for China, including to its economy as well as public health.
Shared Destiny »
Humanity as never before shares a common destiny, whether it be in terms of the resources of the planet, the global environment, economic integration, or the movement of peoples, ideas, cultures.