The NYRB China Archive
01.13.17
China’s Hidden Massacres: An Interview with Tan Hecheng
from New York Review of Books
Tan Hecheng might seem an unlikely person to expose one of the most shocking crimes of the Chinese Communist Party. A congenial 67-year-old who spent most of his life in southern Hunan province away from the seats of power, Tan is no dissident. In...
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12.16.16China Has Made Strides in Addressing Air Pollution, Environmentalists Say
New York Times
Ma Jun, the director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, says transparency is up and pollution is down
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12.06.16A China Economist Told Us How China Could Hurt the US in a Trade War
Business Insider
BI caught up with Gene Ma, IIF's Chief Economist, to ask him some questions about where the Chinese economy is going in the age of Trump
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11.29.16Author’s Vision of a Future Beijing Looks to China’s Present
New York Times
Meet Hao Jingfang, author of "Folding Beijing,” the science-fiction novelette that beat out Stephen King to win a Hugo Award.
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10.28.16An Exiled Editor Traces the Roots of Democratic Thought in China
New York Times
An interview with Hu Ping, editor of the pro-democracy journal "Beijing Spring," based in New York
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10.05.16Taiwan President Tsai: Taiwan Won’t Succumb to China’s Pressure
WSJ: China Real Time Report
In an interview with WSJ, Ms.Tsai discussed her first four months in office
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09.20.16Once a Voice of Young China, Han Han Stakes Out a Different Path
New York Times
Han Han discusses his writings, the turns his life has taken and what people in the West fail to understand about China
The NYRB China Archive
09.08.16
The People in Retreat
from New York Review of Books
Ai Xiaoming is one of China’s leading documentary filmmakers and political activists. Since 2004, she has made more than two dozen films, many of them long, gritty documentaries that detail citizen activism or uncover whitewashed historical events...
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02.24.16Michelle Yeoh on 'Crouching Tiger 2,' Girl Power, and Anti-China Trump
Daily Beast
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2 still tells a very Chinese tale.
Culture
11.04.15
Zhang Yimou: ‘Even Though Our Market Is Growing Fast, We’re Still Not Satisfied’
Hollywood has Steven Spielberg and China has Zhang Yimou, the senior statesman of moviemaking in the People’s Republic. From Red Sorghum, his 1987 debut right out of the Beijing Film Academy, through Hero, which grossed more in America in 2002 than...
Culture
10.07.15
Jia Zhangke on Finding Freedom in China on Film
Jia Zhangke is among the most celebrated filmmakers China has ever produced—outside of China. His 2013 film, A Touch of Sin, a weaving-together of four tales of violence ripped from modern-day newspaper headlines, won the Best Screenplay award at...
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11.06.13The Challenges of Conveying Absurd Reality: An Interview with Yu Hua
Los Angeles Review of Books
Thus, Los Angeles Review of Books Asia Co-editor Megan Shank and Yu exchanged Chinese-language e-mails about history’s most over- and underrated Chinese writers, the evolution of an ancient language and why Yu will never read&...
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08.29.13‘Trouble in the Middle’: How Foreign Companies SHould Confront Corruption in China
WSJ: China Real Time Report
Navigating the significant and sometimes dangerous differences between Western and Chinese business culture is the focus of “Trouble in the Middle,” the very well-timed new book by Steven Feldman, professor of business ethics at Case Western Reserve...