Chinese Doodles

on October 23, 2015

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Chinese Doodles is an online visual journalism project aimed at providing useful, attractive, and trustworthy information about China. Founded by Davide and Valentina, the project focuses on communicating through drawings, editorial cartoons, and infographics across a wide range of topics related to Chinese society. Valentina and Davide met in Beijing at Beijing Foreign Studies University and started discussing Chinese Doodles, a project they eventually started in late 2014. Their ambition is to mix sinology and graphics in order to provide a new way to understand contemporary China.

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By Sheila Melvin on October 23, 2015

One noonday in 2002, a friendly acquaintance of mine—I’ll call him Q—left his office in a Beijing concert hall to go to lunch and never returned. After a series of inquiries, his wife and colleagues learned that he had been arrested. Various charges were leveled—embezzlement, tax evasion—until something was made to stick and Q was sentenced to seven years in jail, the victim of his own success in a music world rife with politics and riven by disagreement over concert hall real estate.