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07.27.17Why Justin Bieber Got Banned from Performing in China
New Yorker
The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture issued an injunction against the twenty-three-year-old pop star, Justin Bieber, who was in the middle of a global tour, prohibiting him from performing in China. (On Monday, Bieber announced that he was...
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05.15.17Peter Loehr to Exit as Legendary Entertainment’s China Chief
Variety
Longtime China hand Peter Loehr will exit Beijing-based Legendary East at the end of the month, leaving another senior post to be filled at Dalian Wanda-owned Legendary Entertainment after the recent departure of founder Thomas Tull.
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03.06.17Great Wall of China’s Troubled History Offers Lessons for Trump, Scholars Say
Guardian
The president has described his border proposal as ‘the Great Wall of Trump,’ evoking what one expert sees as a calamitous and ill-conceived folly
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09.22.16‘Botched’ Repair to China’s Great Wall Inspires Outrage
New York Times
The shoddy paving over of a stretch of the Wall criticized for effacing the ancient monument
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06.28.16China’s Great Wall of Confrontation
Wall Street Journal
History under review—a reflection of dynastic weakness....
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03.04.16Some Facts for Donald Trump about the Great Wall of China
Washington Post
Donald Trump invoked the Great Wall of China when justifying the feasibility of his plan to erect a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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07.02.15Fears Raised as "A Third" of China Great Wall Vanishes
CNN
About 30%, of the ancient fortification built in the Ming Dynasty era has disappeared due to natural erosion and human damage, according to the Beijing Times.
Sinica Podcast
08.24.12
The Raid of the Scorned Mongol Woman
from Sinica Podcast
This week on Sinica, we take a break from the trial of Gu Kailai, the 18th Party Congress, and the recent flurry of disgruntled expat blog posts to cast our gaze back to the age of Mongol politics, barbarian cross-border raids, and that period in...
The NYRB China Archive
03.28.68
The Great Wall
from New York Review of Books
China is so distant, big, and complex that each Marco Polo nowadays tells a different tale. The authors of the three books under review—a cool Swedish journalist, a passionate Chinese true-believer, and a philosophical Frenchman—give very different...