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12.02.15China's Blast of Fresh Air Quiets Calls for Beijing Mayor's Head
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A cold front that swept choking smog from northern China couldn’t have come sooner for Beijing’s mayor.
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12.02.15It’s Complicated: Mark Zuckerberg’s Donation Spurs Philanthropy Debate in China
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Some Chinese Internet users are asking: is it a kind-hearted gift or a tax dodge?
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12.01.15
Live at the Bookworm, Part II
from Sinica Podcast
This is the second part of the Live Sinica discussion recorded last month during a special event at the Bookworm literary festival. In this show, David Moser and Kaiser Kuo were joined by China-newcomer Jeremy Goldkorn, fresh off the plane from...
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12.01.15Photo Of Breastfeeding Mom In Public Ignites Online Storm In China
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Some criticized the woman for exposing her "sexual organs" in public.
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12.01.15Putting China’s Coal Consumption Into Context
Brookings Institution
Few issues are more likely to provoke interest about China.
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12.01.15
Life After Death
A family mourns the loss of a husband and father, who died after a decade-long fight against silicosis contracted while working in China’s gold mines. He was one of an estimated 6 million workers in China who have some form of pneumoconiosis, the...
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11.30.15The Sham Marriage App Helping China’s Gay Community
Telegraph
With homosexuality illegal until 1997 and prejudice still rife, gays and lesbians are increasingly joining forces with the help of matchmaking apps
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11.27.15
‘Personal Media’ in China Takes a Hit From Pre-Publication Censorship
Observers have long thought that Chinese authorities censor the media depending on type: the censorship of traditional media is primarily conducted in advance, with a thorough inspection of news and discussion before publication; new media, in...
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11.24.15How China Conquered France’s Wine Country
New Republic
French connoisseurs sold the Chinese pomp and prestige, until they started manufacturing it themselves.
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11.24.15China's Obesity Epidemic: Teaching Children to 'Eat a Rainbow'
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The rise in diabetes in China could bankrupt the country’s healthcare system, says a medical expert.
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11.23.15China Cuts Mobile Service of Xinjiang Residents Evading Internet Filters
New York Times
The Chinese government is shutting down the mobile service of residents in Xinjiang.
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11.23.15China Shuts Down Service For Some Phones With Foreign Messaging Apps
Verge
As mobile users try to evade censorship in China through software, the government appears to be trying a new technique to head off such attempts.
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11.23.15Hong Kong May Be A Little Insecure, But It's No 'Slave'
South China Morning Post
I don't much care to weigh in on the subject of Hong Kong remaining a place where non-Asians are able to prosper.
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11.23.15Q. and A.: Jindong Cai on ‘Beethoven in China’
New York Times
Jindong Cai, 59, is an orchestra conductor and a professor at Stanford University.
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11.23.15Hong Kong's 'Umbrella Soldiers' Win Seats in Local Elections
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"The paratroopers are a new power, a challenge to the government and the central authorities in Beijing."
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11.20.15The Strange Case of 77 Blue-Collar Chinese Migrants That Kenya Is Calling “Cyber-Hackers”
Quartz
Their arrests are emblematic of a slowly brewing backlash against Chinese immigration to Africa.
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11.20.15China Aims to Build Its Own Secure Smartphones
Wall Street Journal
State-owned and private tech firms team up to cut cord to U.S. suppliers.
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11.20.15China Acknowledges Killing 28, Accusing Them of Role in Mine Attack
New York Times
The Chinese authorities had killed 28 people suspected of taking part in an attack on a coal mine in the country’s turbulent western frontier.
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11.19.15Dream of The Bed Chamber
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It is not just China’s economy that has loosened up since 1979. The country is in the midst of a sexual revolution.
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11.19.15China's Middle Class Isn't What We Thought It Was
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For years, multinational companies have been rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the growth of the Chinese middle class.
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11.19.15China’s College Counselors Told to Join the Party — the Communist Party
Time
China’s Education Ministry has deemed universities an “ideological frontline”.
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11.19.15Islamic State Claim of Hostage Killing Complicates China’s Terror Debate
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China vowed "justice" for a Chinese national kidnapped and apparently slain by the Islamic State.
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11.19.15
China: Novelists Against the State
from New York Review of Books
Can writers help an injured society to heal? Did Ōe Kenzaburō, who traveled to Hiroshima in 1963 to interview survivors of the dropping of the atomic bomb on that city eighteen years earlier, and then published a moving book called Hiroshima Notes,...
Caixin Media
11.18.15
Government Enlists NGOs to Help Homeless
Drivers roll up car windows as an autumn wind chills a traffic-clogged overpass in western Beijing’s Liuliqiao area. And under the concrete overpass, homeless people are gathering for a chilly night’s rest after wandering city streets.Among the...
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11.18.15McDonald's China Heritage Outlet Criticised
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The opening of a McDonald's outlet in the home of former Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-kuo in Hangzhou, China has sparked a controversy.
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11.18.15Yes, China E-Commerce Is Huge
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Here’s What Not To Do If You’re A Foreign Company Trying To Get in
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11.18.15Chinese security forces kill 17 in Xinjiang: Radio Free Asia
Reuters
China has appealed for the international community to provide more help in its campaign against Xinjiang militants following the attacks in Paris.
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11.18.15
Chinese Students in America: 300,000 and Counting
In 1981, when Erhfei Liu entered Brandeis University as an undergraduate, he was only the second student from mainland China in the school’s history. “I was a rare animal from Red China,” Liu said in a September 1 interview with Foreign Policy, “an...
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11.17.15China Box Office: 'Spectre' Has the Competition Shaken and Stirred
Hollywood Reporter
It took a while, but James Bond finally won over Chinese audiences as Spectre, the 24th film in the franchise.
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11.17.15China Bends Vow, Using Prisoners’ Organs for Transplants
New York Times
A senior Chinese health official said last year that China would stop using prisoners’ organs for transplants as of Jan. 1, 2015.
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11.17.15Hong Kong-China: A Growing Football Rivalry or Just Politics?
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Around the world, there are legendary, dynastic rivalries in football.
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11.16.15The Young Foreigners Embedded in Chinese Local Government
Financial Times
Communist China has a long history of recruiting foreign experts to advise state-owned companies and teach at universities.
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11.16.15One country, two cisterns as Hong Kong, China fans get separate toilets
Agence France-Presse
Hong Kong and China fans will be kept completely separate at their crunch World Cup qualifier Tuesday, using different entrances and even different toilets.
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11.16.15China's Napoleon Complex
Foreign Affairs
With Deng’s political reforms in the 1980s and 1990s came increased discrimination based on appearance.
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11.16.15‘Exiled’ Chinese Journalist Leaks Huge List of Censored Terms
Hong Kong Free Press
A Chinese journalist who is now living in exile in India has handed a large list of what he says are sensitive terms censored in China to Radio Free Asia, a US-backed broadcaster.
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11.16.15China Tired of the Boiler Suit
Guardian
“Why can people who glory in color and fun and variety wear a uniform of boiler suits that brings drabness and dreariness to every gathering?”
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11.16.15China Is Using the Paris Attacks to Tout Its Anti-Terror Efforts at Home
Quartz
Condolence and support from heads of state across the globe poured in to France after Friday’s terror attacks in Paris.
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11.16.15
The Pace of Change in Beijing: Live at the Bookworm, Part I
from Sinica Podcast
This week’s Sinica podcast was recorded last month during a special live event at the Bookworm literary festival, where David Moser and Kaiser Kuo were joined by Jeremy Goldkorn, fresh off the plane from Nashville. Topics in this podcast: Beijing...
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11.13.15China and Myanmar Face New Relationship
New York Times
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy, had won most of the 491 seats contested in the election, with results still trickling in.
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11.13.15China’s corruption crackdown is so vast, top officials from every single province have been nabbed
Quartz
The corruption campaign has finally spread to every province in the country.
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11.13.15In China, 1980 marked a generational turning point
Pew Global
Members of this generation were born after Mao's death, and when Deng Xiaoping took power and opened up China’s economy for reform.
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11.12.15
Watch Frank Underwood Advertise China’s Black Friday
On November 11, at the stroke of midnight Beijing time, millions of Chinese sitting behind their computers or cradling their mobile phones began purchasing cell phones, handbags, and clothing at cutthroat prices. By the end of November 11, analysts...
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11.11.15With Help from 007's Daniel Craig, how Alibaba Turned 11-11 into China's Biggest Shopping Day
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Online shopping and entertainment fused into a consumerist juggernaut.
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11.11.15Singles Day in China Draws New Suitors: Foreign Sellers
New York Times
“Double 11 is a really big part of my calendar.”
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11.11.15Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program, Costing the U.S. Jobs
New York Times
“I had this great American dream that got broken.”
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11.10.15
Chinese Hits Miss Out on the Global Box Office
from China Film Insider
If he’d had the time after meeting American captains of industry in Seattle and Barack Obama at the White House, Chinese President Xi Jinping might have ducked out at the close of his United Nations appearance and into a New York movie theater to...
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11.10.15Forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday: 100m hoppers Splash out on China's Singles' Day
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Last year 27,000 merchants joined and Alibaba’s sites grossed £6.1b.
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11.10.15Fears Grow For Missing Hong Kong Publishers Who Were Critical of China
Time
Their disappearance has alarmed the cultural community in a city already fearful of Beijing's growing encroachment.
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11.10.15China Decries Shenyang Pollution Called 'Worst Ever' by Activists
BBC
On Sunday pollution readings were about 50 times higher than that considered safe by the World Health Organization.
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11.09.15
Can the China Model Succeed?
Is this a new model? Is authoritarian capitalism, Leninist capitalism, something that has durability? Have the rules changed about how countries develop? That used to be, remember, that open markets led ineluctably to open societies. How does it...
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11.09.15A Chinese CEO's Mysterious Disappearance and the Startup Industry
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Li Dongpu, CEO and co-founder of car wash startup Wo Ai Xiche, has disappeared
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11.09.15Chinese Farmer Burns to Death in Dispute over 'Nail House'
CNN
Land seizures, driven by soaring prices and a push for urban expansion, have been a major source of popular discontent in China, often resulting in violent stand-offs between officials and the public.
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11.06.15Meeting With Taiwan Reflects Limits of China’s Checkbook
New York Times
For the past eight years, the Chinese government has showered its former enemies in Taiwan with economic gifts.
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11.06.15
‘A Brutality Born of Helplessness’
When China finally scrapped its one-child policy after more than three decades of brutality, almost no one lamented its passing. But Paul R. Ehlich, a Stanford-educated biologist and author of the 1968 fear-baiting classic The Population Bomb, was...
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11.06.15China Is on Track to Surpass U.S. as World's Biggest Movie Market by 2017
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Despite the recent economic slowdown in China, the country's film market is growing even faster than anticipated.
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11.06.15U.S., China Least Concerned About Climate Change
Agence France-Presse
China and the United States are the world's biggest polluters, but their residents are among the least concerned about the harms of climate change.
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11.06.15The China-Russia-Mongolia Trilateral Gains Steam
Diplomat
The Asian trilateral no one talks about is seeing some interesting new developments.
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11.06.15China's First Innovative Drug Approved NDA in the U.S.
China Daily
This is the first truly innovative drug manufactured in China that passes the audits of FDA and it is about to enter the NDA progress.
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11.05.15
All The Chairman’s Statues
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Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the founding supremo of its People’s Republic, is not a man who has retreated from history quietly. During the last decade of his life, during the Cultural Revolution he unleashed in part to...
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11.04.15China to Push Cultural 'Blending' in Xinjiang Stability Push
Reuters
China will push the study of Mandarin and the "blending" of different races as part of a new stability push in the troubled far western region of Xinjiang.