Essay Archives - The Wire China https://www.thewirechina.com/category/essay/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 18:58:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thewirechina.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cropped-square_logo-32x32.jpg Essay Archives - The Wire China https://www.thewirechina.com/category/essay/ 32 32 The Soul of Lu Xun https://www.thewirechina.com/2021/03/14/the-soul-of-lu-xun/ Sun, 14 Mar 2021 23:00:00 +0000 Orville Schell https://www.thewirechina.com/?p=8590 Those looking for China’s national spirit won’t find it in Xi Jinping’s writing. But the works of Lu Xun offer a homegrown example that contemporary Chinese can follow as the country writes a script for its next act.

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]]> The Death of Engagement https://www.thewirechina.com/2020/06/07/the-birth-life-and-death-of-engagement/ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:00:39 +0000 Orville Schell https://www.thewirechina.com/?p=2501 For almost a half century, the U.S. and China have operated under a fragile policy framework of "engagement." But with the two countries facing their most adversarial state in years, it’s worth revisiting how we got to this moment — and why it didn't have to end this way.

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