Travels with My Censor
on March 2, 2015
China’s reading public has begun to discover nonfiction books about China by foreigners.
China’s reading public has begun to discover nonfiction books about China by foreigners.
On a bamboo-covered mountaintop the mud-walled houses of Diaotan village are just barely visible through the thick fog that often shrouds this remote hamlet in China’s Zhejiang province. Worn but sturdy earthen walls still enclose the largest structure of Diaotan, the ancestral hall, or citang. Inside, a few lanterns and red couplets hang above a stone courtyard covered with moss and weeds.
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That could pile pressure on mills already struggling with weak demand-growth as the world's No.2 economy loses momentum.
Glen Peters of the Global Carbon Project calculates that China's CO2 emissions have also fallen, by 0.7 percent, for the first time this century.
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Chai Jing's stunning documentary on the smog problem was viewed more than 100 million times in little over two days.
In 1997, Beijing was smaller city, and Keep in Touch, Jamhouse, and Nightman were the hippest venues around. There was no traffic on the ring roads, and if you got tired of Chinese food you might take a trip to Fangzhuang to visit this Italian restaurant that had suddenly appeared (should we go to Fangzhuang tonight, honey)? And the really plugged-in? They might even have heard of this new district called "Sanlitun" that had a couple of upcoming bars like Poachers....