Claire Kells is a graduate student at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She is concentrating in Human Rights as well as learning Mandarin.
The AP reports that Hua Guofeng passed away on Wednesday at age 87: Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong’s successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic...
Read MoreJim Yardley, of the New York Times, reports that Chinese propaganda officials have ordered only sympathetic coverage of Liu Xiang: After Liu hobbled off the track, China’s Internet was filled with comments that ranged from...
Read MoreThe Economist adds its voice to the swelling China coverage on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics with an analysis of national political conditions: The government-organised vigilantes in their baseball caps and “Good luck...
Read MoreFrom John Tepper Marlin at The Huffington Post: Not so very far from yesterday’s bombing that killed 16 police officers, in a region subject to a recent Chinese crackdown to protect the Olympics, Martin Ma manages a...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Contemporary art in China is a man’s world. While the art market, all but nonexistent in 1989, has become a powerhouse industry and produced a pantheon of multimillionaire artist-celebrities, there are...
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