The Role of Education in Societal Progress and Sustainability (Beijing Review)

Periods of enlightenment, of the individual and of society in its totality, have marked the path of mankind throughout history. Nations have been forged from the imagination, arisen through reason, concretized through common sense and practicality, ripe with possibility to improve the human and world condition. The arc of characters echoing through the chambers of time, timely in message and meaning even today, have been as diverse as they have been divulging in answer to our most basic questions, needs…

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A Tale of Two Nations (Beijing Review)

Why China’s narrative is relevant in the world today

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”

In his novel A Tale of Two Cities, famed British author Charles Dickens was speaking not of two cities per se, but two experiences, perspectives, and of a divergence of ideals that resulted in the convergence of disharmonious forces. And while his setting was centuries in the past, he might well have been invoking the global landscape of today, one of nations in dichotomy central to our collective fate as humanity.

China and the United States, a tale of two nations, a destiny shared by one world.

The remarkable story of China’s reemergence as a world power and purveyor of ideals and…

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