Great Leap Backward
Nicholas Kristof writes on China’s ongoing crackdown at the New York Times, concluding that “for those of us who love China and believe in its future, this retreat is painful to watch.” Since China is in the...
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Samuel Wade is Executive Editor for CDT English, and is based in Vancouver. You can also find him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
Politics Gets Personal in Left-Right Row
China Media Project has posted partial translations of two essays from an exchange between Wang Wen of the Global Times’ Chinese edition and the poet Ye Fu. Wang explains “the doubts and spontaneous disappointment I...
Read MoreAuthorised Chinese Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude Coming Soon
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is soon to be released in an approved Chinese edition for the first time, after bidding for the publication rights reached a reported one million dollars. The official...
Read MoreBjørn Lomborg Dismisses China’s “Green Leap Forward”: Others Respond
On April 20, controversial “Skeptical Environmentalist” Bjørn Lomborg argued in a Washington Post op-ed that high praise for China’s environmental progress is ill-deserved. The article has since drawn...
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The Knife Sharpener, by Expatriate Games.
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