The Tiananmen Square Massacre: The World's Response to One of China's Most Embarrassing Events In the spring of 1989 in Beijing, China tens of thousands of student protesters lined the streets surrounding Tiananmen Square and filled the square itself. The reasons for their pro-democracy...

1 By the nineteenth century, China was experiencing growing pressures of economic origin, there were over 300 million Chinese, but there was no industry or trade to absorb the excess labor. The scarcity of land led to widespread breakdown in law and order. Localized revolts erupted in various par...

Introduction Xiao, the Chinese word for filial piety is the defining feature in Chinese culture as filial piety was extolled as the highest virtue in China for centuries. I subscribe to the school of thought that filial piety is the root of Chinese ethics and "with it all enlightening studies co...

China and the WTO: China's Challenge Introduction The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is a somber lesson to remind the world of how important it is to get globalization right. Now its clearer than it has been ever that the world is split between thos...