The Silk Road Of Pop
on April 12, 2013
The film follows the trails left by a young Uyghur female named Ay and her interest in music, documenting her influences and portraying her musical idols in northwestern China.
Are China’s Colleges Too Easy?
on April 12, 2013
China may have the lowest college dropout rate in the world. Some chalk this up to the success of China’s rigorous college entrance exam and family support systems. But others say the country’s universities have become too easy.
The Five Biggest Challenges To Doing Business In China
on April 12, 2013
“As business people, our goal is to reduce complexity,” Kent Kedl said. “We want to reduce risk by understanding the complexity and then packaging it up so we can identify it. China resists that at every turn.”
Yongbyon Restart: North Korea Ramps Up Nuclear Tension
on April 12, 2013
Until now, Pyongyang had clung to the transparent fiction that it only had a peaceful rationale.The new element in the announcement is North Korea's acknowledgement that the uranium enrichment is for weapons use.
Apple Insider
on April 12, 2013
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Apple’s Apology In China Part of ‘Rite Of Passage’ For Foreign Companies
on April 12, 2013
The same newspapers that attacked Apple and even China's Foreign Ministry are now heaping praise on the American company, calling Apple’s revised policies evidence that the company had “conscientiously” responded to consumers.
Gady Epstein on The Internet
A Sinica Podcast
on April 12, 2013
The Internet was expected to help democratize China, but has instead enabled the authoritarian state to get a firmer grip.
Moving House: Preserving Huizhou’s Vernacular Architecture
An Interview with Nancy Berliner
on April 11, 2013
In 1996, art historian Nancy Berliner, working with the Peabody Essex Museum, purchased a vacant Qing dynasty merchant’s house from the Huizhou region of China and, piece by piece, moved it to the United States to be meticulously reconstructed at the museum in Massachusetts. Now, houses in the same graceful vernacular style are becoming collector’s items for China’s wealthy, who dismantle, relocate, and repurpose them, with little attention to their history.
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Will a new craze for historic houses help protect China’s cultural heritage—or do just the opposite?
on April 11, 2013
When, in 1996, art historian Nancy Berliner purchased a late Qing dynasty merchants’ house from Huangcun, a village in Anhui province, it was just one ordinary house among thousands like it in the picturesque Huizhou region of China. It took Berliner seven years to oversee the meticulous process of dismantling and shipping the house, called Yin Yu Tang, and then re-erecting it at the Peabody Essex museum in Salem, Massachusetts. A decade has passed since it was opened to the American public in 2003.
China Moves To Tackle Autism With First Study
on April 11, 2013
National health authorities have embarked on an ambitious, three-year, 32-million-yuan project to determine the prevalence of autism in China and charter new protocols for diagnoses and treatment.