Chinese Hackers Targeted Wall Street Journal
on January 31, 2013
The Wall Street Journal said its computer systems had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers for the apparent purpose of monitoring the newspaper's China coverage.
From Alberta to China, With Nine Kids in Tow
on January 31, 2013
Cory and Michelle Coles, both 36, and nine of their 10 children are flying off to China for nine months with the hope of learning Mandarin and understanding more about the fascinating culture behind the emerging superpower.
Calgary Herald
on January 31, 2013
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Tombstone
on January 31, 2013
An estimated 36 million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early ’60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as the “three years of natural disaster.”
As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang lays the deaths at the feet of China’s totalitarian Communist system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life over ideology and self-interest.
Tombstone is a testament to inhumanity and occasional heroism that pits collective memory against the historical amnesia imposed by those in power. Stunning in scale and arresting in its detailed account of the staggering human cost of this tragedy, Tombstone is written both as a memorial to the lives lost—an enduring tombstone in memory of the dead—and in hopeful anticipation of the final demise of the totalitarian system. —Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Jonathan Mirsky, The New York Times (December 7, 2012)
Michael Fathers, The Wall Street Journal (October 26, 2012)
The Economist (October 27, 2012)
Samuel Moyn, The Nation (November 7, 2012)
Rana Mitter, The Guardian (December 7, 2012)
Hacking with Chinese Characteristics
on January 31, 2013
The New York Times has come under attack by Chinese hackers just at the very moment that the new Chinese leadership, under Xi Jinping, has pledged to root our corruption before it destroys the Party.
China to Tibetans: Stay Put
on January 31, 2013
The Chinese Communist Party's repression of its Tibetan minority now extends, apparently, to travel. Few Tibetans have been issued passports since last spring. Beijing has yet to comment officially about this issue, but its approach to Tibet has stiffened since cracking down on anti-government protests in the territory in 2008.
China’s Ethnic Manchus Rediscovering Their Roots
on January 31, 2013
Aristocracy is no longer a dirty word in China, and those with ties to the nation's last imperial rulers are now embracing their past.
Didier Drogba Leaves China: Inside a Failed Soccer Experiment
on January 31, 2013
The relationship between the star Ivorian striker and the mediocre Chinese team was actually a six-month fling. Now after half a season in a Chinese league better known for poor play and corruption—the “Allegedly Super League,” as the Guardian once called it last year—Drogba is leaving for the Turkish side Galatasaray.
China Says 14 Protestors Plead Guilty to Encouraging Mass Riot Against Polluting Project
on January 31, 2013
Fourteen people pleaded guilty to encouraging a riot in eastern China last year where scores of police were hurt and the local Communist Party chief was stripped half-naked in a mass protest that ultimately forced the scrapping of a wastewater treatment project.
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate The New York Times Computers
on January 31, 2013
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.