4th year Asian Studies major at UC Berkeley with a focus on China and Political Science. Particularly interested in gender construction, political dissent, nationalism, and socioeconomic polarization in the PRC. Likes to run, fence, and otherwise work out. Loves to eat.
From AFP via the Taipei Times: A former Tiananmen prisoner has been detained and other dissidents placed under house arrest or tight surveillance ahead of the 20th anniversary of the crackdown, activists said yesterday. Wu...
Read MoreChina is pressuring the Australian government not to resettle 10 Uighurs from Guantanamo Bay. Steve Holland reports for Radio Australia, via ABC News: The Australian Government is facing a diplomatic quandary after China...
Read MoreAfter filing for bankruptcy on the morning of June 1, 2009, American car company General Motors (GM), once one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, may be selling its Hummer brand to a Chinese heavy machinery...
Read MoreThe China Beat has collected and reposted two thoughtful pieces on how the events of Tiananmen Square and the Cultural Revolution has impacted how overseas Chinese think and feel about China. In his Sunday New York Times op-ed...
Read MoreJane Macartney reports for the Times Online: Chinese authorities effectively disbarred some of the country’s leading civil rights lawyers yesterday, dealing a blow to a group than has done more to hold the Government to account...
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