Yanzhong Huang discusses his new book, Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and Its Challenge to the Chinese State. Environmental degradation in China has taken a heavy toll not only o…

Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at CFR, and Rebecca Katz, professor and director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University, lead the conversation o…

Watch Philip Pan discuss his book Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China, recipient of the 2009 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.  

Honoring: Gold Medalist: Philip Pan for Out of Mao's Shadow Silver Medalist: Ahmed Rashid for Descent into Chaos Honorable Mention: Gareth Evans for The Responsibility to Protect

Forty-five years after the United States and China formalized relations, Minister Liu Jianchao discusses the two countries’ current relationship and the implications of the recent meeting between the…

Ian Johnson discusses his new book, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, which describes how some of China’s best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overco…