Asian American Writers' Workshop

on August 27, 2012

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The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is the preeminent national literary arts nonprofit dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told. We’ve garnered coverage from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Huffington Post, Associated Press, Atlantic, Slate and NPR. Invited to the White House, named one of the top Asian American groups nationally, we seek to invent the future of Asian American intellectual culture. 

The China Toll

Growing U.S. Trade Deficit With China Cost More Than 2.7 Million Jobs Between 2001 and 2011, With Job Losses in Every State

By Robert E. Scott on August 27, 2012

Since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, the extraordinary growth of trade between China and the United States has had a dramatic effect on U.S. workers and the domestic economy, though in neither case has this effect been beneficial. The United States is piling up foreign debt and losing export capacity, and the growing trade deficit with China has been a prime contributor to the crisis in U.S. manufacturing employment. This study investigates the impact that Chinese manufacturing growth has had on American employment and explains the structural changes to employment that have resulted.

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Reinventing the Manchus: An Imperial People in Post-Imperial China

By Mark Elliott on August 27, 2012

With the 1911 overthrow of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), many predicted that the dynasty’s ethnic founders, the Manchus, would soon be swallowed up by the Han majority – the final act in a long process of acculturation that began in 1644, which even the long sequestration of the conquerors in walled garrisons could not prevent. The destruction of those walls, and continued prejudice against them in the first half of the 1900s, created a highly adverse environment for people wishing to go on being ‘Manchu’. Facing dwindling numbers, and at first denied official status as a minority nationality, their fate appeared even more uncertain in the early years of the People’s Republic of China. All the more astonishing, then, that the Manchus not only survived as an identity group, but are today the second most numerous of China’s fifty-five minority nationalities.

History, Society
Manchu, Ethnology

China Story

on August 27, 2012

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The China Story Project is a web-based account of contemporary China created by the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at the Australian National University in Canberra, which has the most significant concentration of dedicated Chinese Studies expertise and is the publisher of the leading Chinese Studies journals in Australia.

China Seeks to Increase Mutual Investments with India

By Ananth Krishnan on August 27, 2012

China has called for a move to boost mutual investments with India as a measure to strengthen trade ties and reshape what officials have acknowledged is an increasingly unbalanced and strained business relationship, as trade talks between both countries begin in New Delhi on Monday.

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China-India Relations, Trade

China Gets Creative as the Cultural Revolution Grows

By Malcolm Moore on August 27, 2012

Costing a total of 50bn yuan (£5bn), this mammoth entertainment, retail and office hub, named the Han Street Cultural Centre, may be the most ambitious single project of its kind in the world. And it is being built not in Shanghai, Beijing or Hong Kong, but in Wuhan, a 'second-tier' industrial city some 750 miles inland from the coast.

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Wuhan, Urbanization

Revamping the Landscape of Forex Flow

on August 25, 2012

Capital flows out of China may be accelerating, a phenomenon commonly associated with waning confidence in a nation’s economy. But the foreign exchange regulator says the change is a step in the right direction.

In the first six months of the year, China’s capital account saw a deficit of US$20.3 billion, and its accumulated forex reserves grew to US$3.24 trillion, up only US$63.6 billion—77 percent less than the amount added in the first half 2011, data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) shows.

Gu Kailai: Getting Away with Murder?

on August 25, 2012

Closer Look: Nearly Getting Away with Murder

By Zhang Jianjing

Shortly after Bogu Kailai received a death sentence with a two-year reprieve, four former high-ranking Chongqing police officers were sentenced to jail terms ranging from five to eleven years. Each officer was convicted on charges related to the covered-up murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.

Crocodile Tears? CCTV Blasted Over Pre-Cooked Liu Xiang Coverage

By Lillian Lin on August 24, 2012

What do convicted murderer Gu Kailai, serial killer Zhou Kehua and Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang have in common? As of Wednesday, all three stand at the center of viral, conspiracy-driven controversies that say unflattering things about the credibility of China’s state-run media. Liu is the latest to top the country’s conspiracy charts, thanks to a revelation at an Olympics reporting forum in Beijing from China Central Television sports anchor Yang Jian.

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Olympics, Weibo, Gu Kailai, CCTV