Submerged | Shenzhen & Hong Kong
on April 7, 2015
The Special Economic Zone that includes Shenzhen has an estimated population of 15 million and is growing fast, while Hong Kong’s population at the end of 2014 was more than 7 million.
Submerged | Haikou, Hainan
on April 7, 2015
The provincial capital city of Haikou has a population of just over 600 thousand, but for several years China has had plans to turn this tropical island into an international resort destination similar to Hawaii.
Submerged | Dalian
on April 7, 2015
The current population of Dalian is over 4 million.
Born Red
on April 6, 2015
How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao.
Tycoon Said to Bring Down a Deputy Mayor, Control Key Beijing Land Deal
on April 6, 2015
A recent business dispute between a state-owned technology conglomerate and a private property developer has put a low-profile but powerful businessman in the spotlight. The businessman is believed to have brought down a former Beijing deputy mayor, control a landmark building project in the capital, and have close ties to a disgraced national security official.
Rebecca MacKinnon
on April 6, 2015
Rebecca MacKinnon directs the Ranking Digital Rights project at New America, developing a system to rank Internet, telecommunications, and other tech companies on respect for users’ free expression and privacy. She is author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices Online. MacKinnon was a founding Board member of the Global Network Initiative and is currently on the Board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon was CNN’s Bureau Chief and correspondent first in China and then Japan between 1998-2004. More recently, she taught at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre in 2007 and 2008, was a 2013 adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and is currently a visiting affiliate at the Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Global Communication Studies. She has held fellowships at Harvard’s Shorenstein and Berkman Centers, the Open Society Foundations, Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, and the New America Foundation. MacKinnon received her AB magna cum laude from Harvard University and was a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan. She lives in Washington, D.C.
China Escalates Hollywood Partnerships, Aiming to Compete One Day
on April 5, 2015
Chinese studios are moving up the value chain, helping to develop, design and produce world-class films and animated features.
This Little Bridge Connects Guangzhou and Africa
A China in Africa Podcast
on April 3, 2015
The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is home to China’s largest African migrant population, predominantly from Nigeria. In the city’s Little North Road neighborhood there is a small pedestrian bridge where immigrants from all over the world go to relax, hang out, and have their picture taken by local Chinese photographers.
Daniel Traub
on April 3, 2015
Daniel Traub is a Brooklyn-based photographer and filmmaker. His photographs have been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago and the Print Center in Philadelphia, and are in public and private collections, including the Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine and Aperture.