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Nagoya Mayor’s Nanjing Massacre Denial Sparks Uproar
Mayor Kawamura Takashi’s denial of the infamous 1937 massacre has triggered the suspension of sister-city relations between Nagoya and Nanjing and a furious backlash among the Chinese public and media. The mayor remains insistent, however, while Tokyo is attempting to play the affair down as a city-to-city matter. From The New York Times: The falling out began Monday, when Nagoya’s mayor, Takashi Kawamura, told a visiting delegation of Chinese Communist Party officials from Nanjing that h
Lessons of the 40 Years Since Nixon Went to China
In a CNN article, Kenneth Lieberthal gives a synopsis of the dynamic nature of the U.S.-China relationship since Nixon’s 1972 visit. Lieberthal stresses that policies must continue to a ...
Plan B for China’s Wealthy
A growing trend amongst members of China’s upper class is the aspiration to move abroad. An article in the Wall Street Journal tells the story of a few affluent might-be migrants and t ...
Eight Questions on the State of the Internet in China...
China Real Time editor Josh Chin talks about the current state of the Internet in China with Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN Beijing bureau chief, Global Voices founder and author of ‘Consent ...
Dumplings for Sale
That’s Shanghai has published an extended version of sociologist Tricia Wang’s blog post from December, ‘Street Vendor Life in China’. The article describes in greater ...
Chinese Social Science, Stability and the State
In Footnotes, a publication of the American Sociological Association, Leta Hong Fincher, an American doctoral student at Tsinghua University, writes about the restraints placed on social science ...
Tibetans Greet New Year in Somber Mood
Wednesday, February 22 marks Losar, the traditional Tibetan New Year. The 15-day holiday is usually celebrated with meals, family gatherings, prayer services and other festivities. This year, ...Politics
China Vows to Repatriate North Korean Refugees
Despite the protests by South Koreans, China plans to repatriate the...
Economy
Seeing China’s Pollution From Space
The tweeting @BeijingAir pollution monitor atop the US Embassy in...
Culture & the Arts
Supersizing Supercars in China
Bloomberg reports on the race among the world’s luxury car makers...
China & the World
China ‘Detains Tibetan Writer’
After the most recent wave of anti- Chinese protests and self-immolations,... ...
Information Revolution
Censorship in China
Al Jazeera has compiled online video, microblog posts, images, and...
Environment
Celebrities Join in on Animal Rights Uproar (Updated)
With the recent uproar about the inhumane practices of harvesting ...
