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Last Updated: June 22, 2016
Features
07.01.16
The Rockets’ Red Glare
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The vast majority of the world’s fireworks come from China. And sometimes they explode early, with deadly consequences.
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08.07.18Chinese Audiences Will Not See Disney’s New Movie Starring Notorious Outlaw Winnie the Pooh
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Christopher Robin, which is already in theaters in the U.S., is the second Disney movie to be rejected in China this year, following A Wrinkle in Time. Another source told THR that Christopher Robin was not...
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04.25.18A Documentary Reveals the Dangerous Fickleness of Online Fame in China
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In The People’s Republic of Desire, Hao Wu films the lonely shadows where the lines between online and offline dissolve.
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02.17.16A New Class of Chinese Migrants
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Pollution is one of the top three reasons cited by wealthy people for leaving the country for good.
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08.24.15What’s Scarier Than a Strong China? A Weak China.
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When China actually does take a tumble, Americans feel it in their pocketbooks and portfolios.
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07.09.15China’s War Against One American Journalist
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Shohret Hoshur’s brothers are being disappeared by the Chinese government. Beijing is trying to silence an American reporter by sentencing his brothers to China’s gulag.
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04.22.14China Could Become the World’s Largest Christian Country
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China likely already has more Protestants—an estimated 58 million—than South Africa or Brazil, major centers of evangelical revival, and 67 million Christians in all—larger than the total population of France. More people go to...
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02.25.14How Wrong is Your Time Zone?
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All of China’s clocks are set to Beijing time. In defiance of the government, many members of the region’s Uighur minority observe their own time.
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01.13.14China Claims Title of World's Top Trading Nation
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Despite heavy investments in technology, aerospace, and autombiles, most Chinese trade is still in low-end goods.
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12.12.13Journo for a Journo
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If China kicks out U.S. journalists, should the U.S. do the same to Chinese journalists?
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08.12.13See You Again, Old Beijing
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Banned for more than five years, The Last Days of Beijing was cleared and the author allowed to visit on a book tour. It was said to be banned because the map of China shaded Taiwan a different color than the mainland.
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03.26.13The Myth Of The Superbaby
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The technique of preimplantation genetic testing, discussed in a March 2013 article in Vice magazine, is unlikely to be used to create hyperintelligent babies, but it will have an expanding role in avoiding disease likelihood in children.
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06.08.12The World's Toughest Job: Pu Zhiqiang
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It wasn’t safe for Pu Zhiqiang to go home. Or, to be more precise, he could go home, but once there he might not be able to leave again. Over the previous 48 hours, Chinese authorities had detained more than a dozen lawyers and activists. More than...
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05.29.12Hairy Eyeball: China's New Censorship Model
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State censorship is no longer just a question of dissidents testing the boundaries of what is permissible and regularly running afoul of the authorities—the old, familiar model. It has become a matter of authoritarian innovation as well, with the...
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05.24.12Why is Harvard Training China's Leaders?
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Harvard and China have one thing in common: They both consider themselves to be the center of the world. So, it was always inevitable that when the scandal that brought down Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai broke, the repercussions would be felt,...