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02.22.13Does China Have An Army Of Hackers?
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The accumulated evidence should retire the old notion that China’s most sophisticated hackers are just patriots freelancing from their parents’ basements.
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01.31.13Hacking with Chinese Characteristics
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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.
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01.15.13One Nation Under Smog: Rules for Beijing Living
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The following will sound like a joke, but I’m sorry to say it’s not: the filters for our air purifying machines are so expensive that we get ours under the table.
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01.08.13Solzhenitsyn, Yao Chen, and Chinese Reform
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When a Chinese ingénue, beloved for comedy, doe-eyed looks, and middle-class charm, tweets Solzhenitsyn’s words, we may be seeing a new relationship between technology, politics, and Chinese prosperity.
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01.03.13China, the American Press, and the State Department
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It’s time for the State Department to take up the matter of American reporters in China, and Chinese reporters in America.
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12.16.12China Watches Newtown: Guns and American Credibility
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Authoritarian states ward off calls for political freedoms arguing that U.S.-style democracy is no guarantee of good policy.
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12.12.12The “Just Sisters” Defense: China’s Sex-Scandal Surge
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Faced with a sex scandal of breathtaking tackiness, a Chinese police district could be forgiven for feeling perhaps a flicker of relief last week when someone in the office stumbled on what must have felt like good news under the circumstances—a...
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12.09.12Mo Yan and the Hazards of Hollow Words
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In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all. When a person is determined to speak at length but not in depth, he can embark on a long jog of feihua—literally, wasted words—or perhaps pass the time at...
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12.05.12The Hungry Years
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Pankaj Mishra reviews two new books on Mao Zedong and the Great Famine of 1958-62.
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12.03.12Top 10 Myths About China in 2012
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This year may prove to be a pivot point, when the myths that China and the world had adopted about the politics and economics of the People’s Republic began to erode.
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11.28.12Howard French’s Images of Shanghai
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The writer who can really shoot—the dream of generations of penny-pinching newspaper editors—is the rarest of creatures. Because I’ve failed at it enough times to know the difference between snapping off a few frames between interviews and really...
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11.15.12China’s New Chief
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When it was all over this morning, and the seven men had returned once again to the secluded backstage of the Great Hall of the People, trailed by their security, and the stage where they had stood was suddenly empty. I walked up to the spot where...
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10.20.12Video: A Visit with Ai Weiwei
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Earlier this year, we invited the artist Ai Weiwei to visit the United States to take part in the New Yorker Festival, held in early October. At the time, the Chinese government had barred Ai from traveling abroad—an unofficial form of punishment...
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10.15.12How a High-Speed Rail Crash Exposed China’s Corruption
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This was not a bus plunging off a road in a provincial outpost; it was dozens of men and women dying on one of the nation’s proudest achievements—in a newly wired age, when passengers had cell phones and witnesses and critics finally had the tools...
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10.11.12Mo Yan and China’s “Nobel Complex”
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In awarding the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to Mo Yan, the Swedish Academy has recognized one of China’s best-known writers, and also fulfilled one of the Chinese government’s most enduring pursuits: a politically tolerable Nobel laureate.&...