Japhet Weeks is a graduate student in Asian Studies and Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Rescuers continued searching today in Tashan for survivors of yesterday’s mine accident, the most deadly since the closing of the recent Olympic Games in Beijing. Reuters reports: Angry residents wailed and protested as...
Read MoreIsabel Hilton, editor of chinadialogue.net, writes in the Guardian that after the euphoria of the recent Beijing Olympics wears off, China is going to have to deal with pressing problems like pollution and poverty: A colder,...
Read MoreHua Guofeng, who succeeded Mao as leader of China in 1976 and was later replaced by Deng Xiaoping, died this week at the age of 87. Mure Dickie reports in the Financial Times: Nothing sums up better the slavish sycophancy that...
Read MoreChina hopes that the Olympic Games will bring more American college students to China. From the Washington Post: There are almost certainly at least 10,000 U.S. students now enrolled annually in programs in China, up fivefold...
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