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.
The U.S. has asked Australia to take in six of the Uighurs still held at Guantanamo Bay. From BBC: US President Barack Obama has asked the Australian government to accept a group of Chinese Muslim detainees currently held at...
Read MoreGrowing U.S. dependence on China in such grave matters as pressuring North Korea to return to disarmament negotiations and stabilizing the world economy may make the Obama administration hesitant to confront America’s...
Read MoreGun violence is on the rise in Shanghai in spite of China’s total ban on guns. James T. Areddy blogs for the Wall Street Journal in China Journal: At midday Friday in Shanghai, a quarrel among five youths sitting at an...
Read MoreUighur children at an orphanage in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, are renamed with Han Chinese names and disciplined for adhering to a Muslim diet. Radio Free Asia reports: Children belonging to the ethnic Uyghur minority at an...
Read MoreFaced with graduating into an impossible job market, some of today’s Chinese university students view the 1989 Tiananmen protests as both misguided and politically immature. Kathrin Hille reports for the Financial Times:...
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