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10.23.15Beijing Says Won't Give up Position that Taiwan's Part of China
Reuters
Chinese people have a "sacred mission" to ensure Taiwan is always considered part of China.
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10.23.15Chinese Schools 'Robbing Young of Individuality'
BBC
China's education system is robbing its young people of the chance to become unique individuals.
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10.22.15In China, Strong-Arm Tour Guides Are Forcing People to Shop
Los Angeles Times
It may sound like a spendthrift’s dream vacation: being “forced to shop.”
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10.22.15China Golf: Communist Party Bans Club Membership
BBC
Extravagant eating and drinking, and abuse of power, are also formally banned.
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10.22.15Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Awarded 'China's Nobel Peace Prize'
Guardian
Confucius peace prize chairman defends decision to give award to leader accused of using systematic violence to maintain power.
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10.22.15Human Rights: What Is China Accused of?
BBC
China's human rights record has been criticised for years.
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10.21.15Many in the West Fear Chinese ‘Aid’ to Africa. They’re Wrong. Here’s Why.
Washington Post
Western pundits have a narrative about China’s activities in Africa.
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10.21.15As Britain Greets Xi With Pageantry, Magna Carta Gets Less-Than-Royal Treatment in China
WSJ: China Real Time Report
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10.21.15China Turns to Online Courses, and Mao, for Soft-Power Mission
New York Times
“It was like watching propaganda.”
Sinica Podcast
10.21.15
Tu Youyou and the Nobel Prize
from Sinica Podcast
This week on Sinica, hosts Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and David Moser speak with Christina Larson and Ian Johnson about Tu Youyou, the scientist who recently shared a Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of the anti-malaria compound...
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10.20.15The Real Story Behind China’s Alleged Conquest of African Farmland
Quartz
“A common perception is that China is supporting Chinese enterprises to acquire land abroad as part of a national food security strategy.”
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10.20.15Xi Jinping Visit: Chinese Leader Given Ceremonial Welcome
BBC
China's President Xi Jinping is receiving a ceremonial welcome by the Queen as he begins the first full day of his visit to the UK.
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10.20.15The 11 Deadliest Places to Drive
WSJ: China Real Time Report
More than 1.2 million people die in traffic accidents every year across the world.
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10.19.15Feminism With Chinese Characteristics
Diplomat
China is making progress on women’s issues, but anyone trying to publicize remaining issues faces a serious backlash.
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10.19.15Here’s Why Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’ Differs Radically From the American Dream
Time
Xi’s Chinese Dream is protean.
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10.19.15In a Region Disturbed by Ethnic Tensions, China Keeps Tight Lid on a Massacre
New York Times
Armed with only knives, the assailants struck at the coal mine in the dead of night.
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10.19.15Prince William to Give Ivory Trade Speech as China's President Xi Arrives
BBC
The Duke of Cambridge is to deliver a speech on the illegal ivory trade for broadcast on Chinese state TV.
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10.16.15A Remote Corner of China Wants Access to the Sea. The Obstacle Is North Korea.
Washington Post
You can almost smell the sea air from here, at the point where China, Russia and North Korea meet.
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10.16.15China to Build $5 Billion High-Speed Rail Line in Indonesia
Bloomberg
China Railway International Co. Ltd and a consortium of Indonesian state companies will build the rail line from Jakarta to Bandung.
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10.16.15This Is Where China’s Future Will Be Decided
Washington Post
Lanzhou, China — The first thing you notice is the dust.
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10.16.15Taiwan Prepares For Turmoil As China Watches Its Elections From Afar
Guardian
The basic question before voters in next year’s poll is whether they will still exist as a country.
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10.16.15Ai Weiwei Memoir Coming in Spring 2017
Newsweek
Crown Publishing Group announced that it will publish a memoir by the artist in the spring of 2017.
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10.16.15Culture Shock: Chinese Ministry Slammed on Not-so-Social Media
WSJ: China Real Time Report
Watch the country’s culture ministry get eviscerated on social media.
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10.15.15Vietnam Accuses Chinese Vessel of Sinking Fishing Boat
Associated Press
Vietnam said that a Chinese vessel rammed into and sank one of its fishing boats near disputed islands in the South China Sea.
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10.15.15China's Xiaomi's Is Changing the U.S. Too
CNN
Xiaomi is the most important phone manufacturer you've never heard of.
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10.15.15Ancient Teeth Found in China Challenge Modern Human Migration Theory
CNN
Scientists in southern China have discovered human teeth dating back at least 80,000 years.
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10.15.15The Chinese Oscar Winner that Wasn’t
Foreign Policy
Wolf Totem is a spectacular film, but its soul is missing. That's just how Beijing wants it.
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10.15.15Xi’s Visit to Kick Off a Golden Age of China-UK Relations
Diplomat
A state visit next week is expected to spark a new era in bilateral ties.
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10.15.15China Tightens TV Censorship after Cleavage Controversies
Hollywood Reporter
New rules may require some Chinese shows to delay broadcasts by as much as six months.
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10.14.15Survivors Tell the Camera the Hidden Tale of China's Great Famine
Los Angeles Times
When Li Yaqin was 16, she ate what her family could scavenge.
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10.14.15China’s Middle Class Has Overtaken the U.S.’s to Become the World’s Largest
Quartz
China has crossed another economic threshold.
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10.14.15'Hunting' for China at the Democratic Debate
Washington Post
Jim Webb wanted to talk China.The rest of the candidates? Not so much.
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10.13.15A Land China Loves and Hates
New York Times
The Chinese hostility to America is first and foremost the result of government propaganda.
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10.13.15How A 16-Year-Old Found Himself Caught Up in China’s Latest Crackdown
Washington Post
He is not a lawyer, or a dissident. He is a 16-year-old with a bowl-cut fringe.
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10.09.15'A Brighter Future Beckons': China Tries to Get Xinjiang to Join the Party
Guardian
Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
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10.09.15Escalator Death in China Heightens Safety Concerns
New York Times
A 4-year-old boy was killed after getting trapped in an escalator at a subway station in the southwestern city of Chongqing.
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10.09.15China Opens Communist Party Theme Park
CNN
Who needs Disneyland when you can have a theme park for youngsters to declare their loyalty to China's Communist Party?
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10.08.15When Palace Museum Meets Creativity
China Daily
In the minds of most people, Emperor and his concubines lived their lives solemnly.
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10.08.15China Turns Firepower to Soft Power to Try to Win Tiny Taiwan-held Island
Reuters
"In Kinmen, we can do what Taiwan can't, what Taiwan doesn't dare do."
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10.08.15Chinese Hospitals Still Offering Gay 'Cure' Therapy, Film Reveals
Guardian
Channel 4’s Unreported World finds doctors prescribing drugs and electric shocks to gay men and lesbians despite Beijing legalising homosexuality in 1997.
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10.08.15Wartime Sex Slaves at the Heart of UN Battle Between Japan and China
Guardian
Both countries have submitted competing nominations for inclusion in Unesco’s Memory of the World programme.
Culture
10.07.15
Jia Zhangke on Finding Freedom in China on Film
Jia Zhangke is among the most celebrated filmmakers China has ever produced—outside of China. His 2013 film, A Touch of Sin, a weaving-together of four tales of violence ripped from modern-day newspaper headlines, won the Best Screenplay award at...
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10.07.15Yes, He Can: Sichuan’s Answer to Barack Obama Cashes in on His Moment in the Sun
South China Morning Post
A man from the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has been making a living by looking like US President Barack Obama.
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10.07.15A Year on, Mixed Views on What Hong Kong Protests Achieved
Associated Press
"Has the Umbrella Movement accomplished anything? If so, what?"
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10.07.15Once Seed Was Planted, Chinese Headwear Fad Grew Like Weeds
New York Times
Across China, grown-ups are sporting plastic decorations on their heads in the shape of vegetables, fruit and flowers.
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10.07.15Dalai Lama: China More Concerned About Future Dalai Lamas Than I Am
CNN
"I have no concern," he told Amanpour in London, adding that it is "possible" he would be the last Dalai Lama.
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10.07.15The Chinese Government Is Cranking Up the Nationalism After Its Nobel Win
Quartz
In a way, the Nobel honor is a double-whammy for the Chinese government’s nationalist agenda.
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10.07.15Putting the Past Behind in China
New York Times
The days of China’s relying on export manufacturing and infrastructure construction as drivers of economic growth are gone.
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10.06.15How hard does China work?
Guardian
A look at the realities of working life in China, following Jeremy Hunt’s suggestion that Britons need to work as hard as the Chinese.
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10.06.15China’s Xi Jinping Changes the Odds in Macau
Wall Street Journal
If there’s one skill that the U.S. gambling moguls who staked their futures here have mastered it’s calculating the odds.
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10.06.15HK Fined By Fifa For Fans Booing Chinese Anthem
BBC
The Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) has been fined $40,000 Hong Kong dollars ($5,160; £3,400) by Fifa.
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10.06.15Japan's Abe Says TPP Would Have Strategic Significance If China Joined
Reuters
"It would contribute largely to our nation's security and Asia-Pacific regional stability, if China joined the system in the future."
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10.05.15Youyou Tu: How Mao’s Challenge to Malaria Pioneer Led to Nobel Prize
Guardian
Tasked in 1969 with finding a cure for malaria, China’s first laureate in medicine looked to nature and traditional medicine.
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10.05.15Seven Dead, 223 Injured as Tornadoes Brought by Typhoon Mujigae Ravage China’s Guangdong Province
South China Morning Post
Mujigae was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in at least six decades.
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10.05.15A Painting of China’s First Lady, Before a Rise to Stardom
New York Times
On the exhibition notes, the painting of Peng Liyuan by Jin Shangyi is identified only as “a well-known singer.”
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10.05.15China’s Middle-Class Dreams in Peril
Wall Street Journal
Smaller cities on the cusp of China’s transformation toward consumer-driven growth struggle to overcome ill effects of previous economic model.
Sinica Podcast
10.05.15
Edmund Backhouse in the Long View of History
from Sinica Podcast
Edmund Backhouse, the 20th century Sinologist, long-time Beijing resident, and occasional con-artist, is perhaps best known for his incendiary memoirs, which not only distorted Western understanding of Chinese history for more than 50 years, but...
Culture
10.02.15
In Zhang Yimou’s ‘Coming Home’ History is Muted But Not Silent
Coming Home, directed by the celebrated Zhang Yimou and released in the U.S. last week, begins as a man escapes a labor camp in China’s northwest and tries to return home. But he is captured when he and his wife attempt to meet, after their daughter...
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10.02.15More Working Women in China Freeze Their Eggs
Wall Street Journal
Government limits fertility treatment, so career-focused women turn to U.S. for help in having babies.