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10.16.15Culture Shock: Chinese Ministry Slammed on Not-so-Social Media
WSJ: China Real Time Report
Watch the country’s culture ministry get eviscerated on social media.
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10.15.15Vietnam Accuses Chinese Vessel of Sinking Fishing Boat
Associated Press
Vietnam said that a Chinese vessel rammed into and sank one of its fishing boats near disputed islands in the South China Sea.
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10.15.15China's Xiaomi's Is Changing the U.S. Too
CNN
Xiaomi is the most important phone manufacturer you've never heard of.
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10.15.15Ancient Teeth Found in China Challenge Modern Human Migration Theory
CNN
Scientists in southern China have discovered human teeth dating back at least 80,000 years.
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10.15.15The Chinese Oscar Winner that Wasn’t
Foreign Policy
Wolf Totem is a spectacular film, but its soul is missing. That's just how Beijing wants it.
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10.15.15Xi’s Visit to Kick Off a Golden Age of China-UK Relations
Diplomat
A state visit next week is expected to spark a new era in bilateral ties.
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10.15.15China Tightens TV Censorship after Cleavage Controversies
Hollywood Reporter
New rules may require some Chinese shows to delay broadcasts by as much as six months.
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10.14.15Survivors Tell the Camera the Hidden Tale of China's Great Famine
Los Angeles Times
When Li Yaqin was 16, she ate what her family could scavenge.
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10.14.15China’s Middle Class Has Overtaken the U.S.’s to Become the World’s Largest
Quartz
China has crossed another economic threshold.
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10.14.15'Hunting' for China at the Democratic Debate
Washington Post
Jim Webb wanted to talk China.The rest of the candidates? Not so much.
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10.13.15A Land China Loves and Hates
New York Times
The Chinese hostility to America is first and foremost the result of government propaganda.
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10.13.15How A 16-Year-Old Found Himself Caught Up in China’s Latest Crackdown
Washington Post
He is not a lawyer, or a dissident. He is a 16-year-old with a bowl-cut fringe.
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10.09.15'A Brighter Future Beckons': China Tries to Get Xinjiang to Join the Party
Guardian
Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
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10.09.15Escalator Death in China Heightens Safety Concerns
New York Times
A 4-year-old boy was killed after getting trapped in an escalator at a subway station in the southwestern city of Chongqing.
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10.09.15China Opens Communist Party Theme Park
CNN
Who needs Disneyland when you can have a theme park for youngsters to declare their loyalty to China's Communist Party?
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10.08.15When Palace Museum Meets Creativity
China Daily
In the minds of most people, Emperor and his concubines lived their lives solemnly.
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10.08.15China Turns Firepower to Soft Power to Try to Win Tiny Taiwan-held Island
Reuters
"In Kinmen, we can do what Taiwan can't, what Taiwan doesn't dare do."
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10.08.15Chinese Hospitals Still Offering Gay 'Cure' Therapy, Film Reveals
Guardian
Channel 4’s Unreported World finds doctors prescribing drugs and electric shocks to gay men and lesbians despite Beijing legalising homosexuality in 1997.
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10.08.15Wartime Sex Slaves at the Heart of UN Battle Between Japan and China
Guardian
Both countries have submitted competing nominations for inclusion in Unesco’s Memory of the World programme.
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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10.07.15Yes, He Can: Sichuan’s Answer to Barack Obama Cashes in on His Moment in the Sun
South China Morning Post
A man from the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has been making a living by looking like US President Barack Obama.
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10.07.15A Year on, Mixed Views on What Hong Kong Protests Achieved
Associated Press
"Has the Umbrella Movement accomplished anything? If so, what?"
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10.07.15Once Seed Was Planted, Chinese Headwear Fad Grew Like Weeds
New York Times
Across China, grown-ups are sporting plastic decorations on their heads in the shape of vegetables, fruit and flowers.
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10.07.15Dalai Lama: China More Concerned About Future Dalai Lamas Than I Am
CNN
"I have no concern," he told Amanpour in London, adding that it is "possible" he would be the last Dalai Lama.
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10.07.15The Chinese Government Is Cranking Up the Nationalism After Its Nobel Win
Quartz
In a way, the Nobel honor is a double-whammy for the Chinese government’s nationalist agenda.
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10.07.15Putting the Past Behind in China
New York Times
The days of China’s relying on export manufacturing and infrastructure construction as drivers of economic growth are gone.
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10.06.15How hard does China work?
Guardian
A look at the realities of working life in China, following Jeremy Hunt’s suggestion that Britons need to work as hard as the Chinese.
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10.06.15China’s Xi Jinping Changes the Odds in Macau
Wall Street Journal
If there’s one skill that the U.S. gambling moguls who staked their futures here have mastered it’s calculating the odds.
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10.06.15HK Fined By Fifa For Fans Booing Chinese Anthem
BBC
The Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) has been fined $40,000 Hong Kong dollars ($5,160; £3,400) by Fifa.
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10.06.15Japan's Abe Says TPP Would Have Strategic Significance If China Joined
Reuters
"It would contribute largely to our nation's security and Asia-Pacific regional stability, if China joined the system in the future."
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10.05.15Youyou Tu: How Mao’s Challenge to Malaria Pioneer Led to Nobel Prize
Guardian
Tasked in 1969 with finding a cure for malaria, China’s first laureate in medicine looked to nature and traditional medicine.
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10.05.15Seven Dead, 223 Injured as Tornadoes Brought by Typhoon Mujigae Ravage China’s Guangdong Province
South China Morning Post
Mujigae was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in at least six decades.
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10.05.15A Painting of China’s First Lady, Before a Rise to Stardom
New York Times
On the exhibition notes, the painting of Peng Liyuan by Jin Shangyi is identified only as “a well-known singer.”
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10.05.15China’s Middle-Class Dreams in Peril
Wall Street Journal
Smaller cities on the cusp of China’s transformation toward consumer-driven growth struggle to overcome ill effects of previous economic model.
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10.05.15
Edmund Backhouse in the Long View of History
from Sinica Podcast
Edmund Backhouse, the 20th century Sinologist, long-time Beijing resident, and occasional con-artist, is perhaps best known for his incendiary memoirs, which not only distorted Western understanding of Chinese history for more than 50 years, but...
Culture
10.02.15
In Zhang Yimou’s ‘Coming Home’ History is Muted But Not Silent
Coming Home, directed by the celebrated Zhang Yimou and released in the U.S. last week, begins as a man escapes a labor camp in China’s northwest and tries to return home. But he is captured when he and his wife attempt to meet, after their daughter...
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10.02.15More Working Women in China Freeze Their Eggs
Wall Street Journal
Government limits fertility treatment, so career-focused women turn to U.S. for help in having babies.
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10.02.15Gay Couples in China Look Abroad to Start a Family
WSJ: China Real Time Report
Xu Zhe decided a few years ago that he wanted to get married and have a baby—typical life plans for a young man in China.
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10.02.15Q. and A.: Johannes Chan on Academic Freedom in Hong Kong
New York Times
The governing council of the University of Hong Kong rejected this week the nomination of Johannes Chan.
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10.02.15China’s Butler Boom
New Yorker
On a recent morning at a butler-training school in Chengdu, China,;lessons began at 8 A.M.,with an exercise in “opening the villa.”
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10.02.15Troubles for the ‘China Model’
Wall Street Journal
Meritocracy has worked for Beijing, but to survive, the system needs more openness.
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10.02.15Suspect in China Parcel Bombings Died in Explosion, Police Say
Bloomberg
Wei Yinyong, 33, a local man previously named as a suspect, was identified following DNA tests.
Media
10.02.15Meet China’s Salman Rushdie
On a warm late afternoon in June, I sat with Perhat Tursun as he slowly exhaled a puff of smoke from a blue cigarette with shiny gold trim. Arrayed on the pale lace tablecloth before us was an assortment of nuts, sunflower seeds, and wine. The...
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10.01.15Gay Subway Proposal an Internet Hit in China
CNN
Attitudes towards gay rights are gradually shifting in China. Two decades ago, gay couples could face arrest under sodomy laws.
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10.01.15America’s Biggest Competitor Really Isn’t China
Washington Post
If you ask Americans who their country's biggest competitor is, many people will tell you China.
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10.01.15Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China’s Rich Kids
Bloomberg
The fuerdai, China’s second-generation rich kids, are the most loathed group in the country.
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10.01.15On China’s National Day, Hong Kong Protesters Say That They Are Not Part of China
Time
Small groups of protesters waved the blue colonial flag.
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10.01.15China’s Latest Ally in Its Crackdown on Religion: The Pope
Quartz
This week, Chinese president Xi Jinping and Pope Francis missed each other on their back-to-back visits to the United States.
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10.01.15Jack Ma to US: Quit Worrying So Much About China
CNBC
"You American people worry too much about the China economy," Ma said at the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting.
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09.30.15China Micromanages Tibet, Floods It With Money to Woo Locals
Tablet
Nearly 6,500 civil servants have been dispatched to manage hefty budgets and shape Tibet's modernization.
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09.30.15Seven Killed, Dozens Injured As Guangxi’s Liucheng County Rocked By Series Of Suspected Parcel Bombs
South China Morning Post
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09.30.15The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?
Atlantic
In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed.
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09.29.15
China’s New Roads Are Taking a Toll
from Sohu
On July 21, the Ministry of Transport issued a revised draft of its “Regulations on Toll Road Administration,” outlining planned adjustments to toll collection periods.Four Important Changes:{photo, 19386, 3}How Many Toll Roads Are There in China...
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09.29.15On U.S. Visit, China’s Xi Jinping Tries to Have It Both Ways
WSJ: China Real Time Report
Xi Jinping often seemed caught between two audiences—his skeptical hosts who needed gentle reassurance and the crowd back home who admire his firm rule and tough nationalism.
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09.29.15A Dangerous Game: Responding to Chinese Cyber Activities
Diplomat
Those calling for tougher U.S. measures should think twice.
Media
09.28.15
What’s China’s Mood Under Xi? New Data Gives a Glimpse
China, under the presidency of Xi Jinping, has invited a number of breathless pronouncements about the state of the country. Chinese media regularly conjure the “Chinese Dream,” one of Xi’s favored phrases, which means whatever readers want it to...
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09.28.15Chinese President Xi Jinping Will Arrive At The UN Armed With A List Of Things He Wants Changed
Quartz
Xi Jinping will make his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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09.28.15China’s Think-Tank Great Leap Forward
Council on Foreign Relations
Governments, universities, and non-governmental actors have all jumped on the bandwagon of growing and creating think tanks.