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Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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Sheryl Sandberg’s brand of self-strengthening feminism has made its way to China, receiving mixed, but generally positive, reactions among various audiences.
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09.26.13Wooing, And Also Resenting, Chinese Tourists
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They gawk, they shove, they eschew local cuisine, and last year, 83 million mainland Chinese spent $102 billion abroad making them the world’s biggest tourism spenders, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
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09.24.13Filmmaker Giving Voice to Acts of Rage in Today’s China
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When Sina Weibo made filmmaker Jia Zhangke aware of just how many ordinary Chinese were being provoked by power-abusing members of society to commit acts of bloodshed, he decided to adapt his martial arts film to reflect the issues of the...
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09.24.13Ex-Champion Takes Solid Lead in Fight for Chess Title
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China’s Hou Yifan, age 19, is currently playing against Ukraine’s Anna Ushenina, 28, for the title of world female chess champion. Each player earns one point for a victory and a half-point for a draw, and, after four games, Ms. Hou leads 3...
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09.24.13China’s Plan to Curb Air Pollution Sets Limits on Coal Use and Vehicles
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This plan represents the most concrete response yet by the Communist Party and the government to growing criticism over allowing the country’s air, soil and water to degrade to abysmal levels because of corruption and unchecked economic growth.&...
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09.24.13Some of China’s Prominent Internet Voices
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A run-down of some of Sina Weibo’s most followed figures, complete with background information, a sampling of posts, and the type of content you ought to expect from them, from irreverant property developers to optimistic high-tech investors.
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09.19.13Crackdown on Bloggers Is Mounted by China
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Worried about its hold on public opinion, the Chinese government has pursued a propaganda and police offensive against what it calls malicious rumor-mongering online.
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09.12.13As Chinese Farmers Fight for Homes, Suicide Is Ultimate Protest
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Farmers are increasingly thrown off their land by officials eager to find new sources of economic growth. The tensions are especially acute on the edge of big Chinese cities, and more and more people are resorting to suicide to protest the...
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09.11.13The Puzzle of Identifying as Chinese
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In the U.S.A., there’s a tension between the self that is invented and the self that is inherited,” Chinese-American writer Gish Jen said. “But in China, it’s 20 percent of one and 80 percent of another,” whereas in America, “it’s the...
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09.05.13A Yang Fudong Retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum
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Yang Fudong is known for using the illogic of European art film (think of Antonioni, Resnais or the later Fellini) to talk about how China’s traditions clash with its modern realities. The retrospective runs through December 8. ...
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09.05.13Seeking Edge in Academics, Chinese Spend Summer in U.S.
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The surge in students traveling to the United States for the summer is the latest iteration in China’s booming multibillion-dollar overseas education business.
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09.05.13Look Who’s Afraid of Democracy
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For all of China’s vaunted influence in the world, many of its top leaders are deeply fearful of losing control of their own country. That fear is reflected in the Bo Xilai trial and the recently revealed “Document No. 9” warning of subversive...
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09.05.13Rape Trial Casts Spotlight on Offspring of China’s Elite
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Like the recent trial of Bo Xilai, the fallen former politician, the case has become an intensely watched and debated parable about the privileges and limited accountability of the Communist Party’s highborn.
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09.03.13Across China, Skyscrapers Brush the Heavens
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China is home to 60 of the world’s 100 tallest buildings now under construction. But the skyward aspirations of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, have inspired incredulity tinged with hostility.
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09.03.13Political Staging in Trial of Fallen China Official
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The courtroom spectacle is an effort by the party to convince Bo’s elite party allies and ordinary supporters that he had his say in court, and that the long prison sentence he is expected to get is based on evidence of crimes committed, not...