Selling 30,000 tickets every day during the holiday season at the end of December 2022, China s world-famous Palace Museum is just one of the many cultural centers that has been packed by crowds of visitors after the country introduced optimized COVID-19 control measures on December 7, 2022. The new surge in consumption has been a shot in the arm for the cultural industry and a preview of a bright beginning for 2023.
Following is an edited transcript of a live event hosted at Asia Society New York on May 21, 2015, “ChinaFile Presents: Does Xi Jinping Represent a Return to the Politics of the Mao Era?” The evening convened the scholars Roderick MacFarquhar and Andrew Walder the publication of whose new book on Mao Zedong was the occasion for the event with diplomat Susan Shirk and Orville