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Wilson Center, "A Global Choke Point Report: China's Water-Energy-Food Roadmap," February 18, 2015
This bilingual report builds on the China Environment Forum’s (CEF) extensive research in partnership with Circle of Blue, and draws heavily on a weeklong exchange with American and Chinese water, energy, and food experts that took place in China in August 2013.
Mertha, China's Water Warriors, Citizen Action and Policy Change, 2008
Andrew Mertha's book was reviewed by Baruch Boxer for H-Water and published in October 2009. We republish it here under Creative Commons license.
Whiteford and Whiteford, Globalization, Water and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity, 2005.
Johann W. N. Tempelhoff reviews the book for H-SAfrica, April 2006.
Ma and Ortolano, Environmental Regulation in China: Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance, 2000
Robert Marks reviews the book for H-Environment, August 2000, credit H-Net.
Managing Scarcity: Water and Culture in Modern China
UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies and Center for Chinese Studies co-host a talk by David Pietz
Featured Articles
We note the passing of many prominent individuals who played some role in U.S.-China affairs, whether in politics, economics or in helping people in one place understand the other.
Events
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
David Zweig examines China's talent recruitment efforts, particularly towards those scientists and engineers who left China for further study. U.S. universities, labs and companies have long brought in talent from China. Are such people still welcome?