Japhet Weeks is a graduate student in Asian Studies and Journalism at UC Berkeley.
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gao Xingjian presently has an exhibit of his ink-on-rice-paper paintings in Hong Kong. From The International Herald Tribune: Although he is better known around the world as a playwright and...
Read MoreAustralia’s Mandarin speaking Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made a point of strengthening his country’s ties with China, but that has the Middle Kingdom’s neighbors worried, from the Christian Science Monitor:...
Read MorePC Magazine has a piece explaining the ins and outs of China’s Great Firewall: With the Beijing Olympic Games set to kick off August 8, China ‘s Internet policies are being placed under new and more intense scrutiny....
Read MoreArchitecture critic for The New York Times Nicolai Ourousoff takes an in-depth look at how cities like Shenzhen and Dubai are changing the face of modern architecture: In both China and the Persian Gulf, cities comparable in...
Read MoreMore news from the “quake lakes” formed by the Sichuan tremblor. This time the threat is coming from above in the form of rain, from The New York Times: As heavy rains descended on northern Sichuan Province for the...
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