Kal Raustiala (UCLA) and Christopher Jon Sprigman (NYU): How Can Brands Flourish in the Knockoff Kingdom? What China Tells Us about the Bad — and Good — Effects of Luxury Goods Counterfeiting. Toby Stuart (UC-Berkeley) and Yanbo Wang (BU): Who Cooks the Books in China, and Does it Pay? Davide Cantoni (Munich), Yuyu Chen (Peking), David Yufan Yang (Stanford), Noam Yuchtman (UC-Berkeley), and Y. Jane Zhang (UST): Curriculum and Ideology (“We study the causal effect of school curricula on students’ stated beliefs and attitudes”.) Tom Rendall (Macau): “What About Their Parents?”: Teaching the Western Classics to Students in China. Manuel Perez Garcia (RUC): From Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: The New Challenges in Global History. Solving China’s schools: Ian Johnson interviews Jiang Xueqin. How bad is China's moral crisis? Even China's 2-year-olds are manipulative nihilists. Ross Perlin reviews Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth Century Monk by James Carter; Ecclesiastical Colony: China’s Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate by Ernest P. Young and The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village by Henrietta Harrison. Can stand-up comedy succeed in China? Some of the country's top comics are experimenting with a new brand of edgy, boundary-testing humor. James Andrew Lewis on five myths about Chinese hackers. From China Daily Show, a look at how to review a book on China. From TNR, when 0748 means “go die": Christopher Beam in the secret messages inside Chinese URLs; and meet China's Tony Robbins: The predatory gospel of China's most popular motivational speaker.
