Former Yale University English professor William Deresiewicz’s book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, created a firestorm in the United States when it was released in August 2014.
From their website:
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.
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.
While political and security matters dominated headlines, Xi’s U.S. trip was actually driven by economics.
Under Mao, China promoted socialist equality for women, but the market-reform era has left many commodified in a country where mistress can be a career choice.
China's transformation from an agrarian economy remains a work in progress.
Chinese people have a "sacred mission" to ensure Taiwan is always considered part of China.
China's education system is robbing its young people of the chance to become unique individuals.
The visit to Britain by Xi Jinping is underscoring how European nations are de-emphasizing human rights and security concerns.
