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.
Austin Ramzy explains why blocking YouTube undermines the Chinese government’s claim that the video of Chinese policemen beating Tibetan detainees after the March 2008 Lhasa riots is faked. From The China Blog at...
Read MoreHow might a ‘creative economy’ be developed for China? Michael Keane at Creative Economy reflects: “They eat the meat and we have the bone; they eat the rice and we have the husk.” According to Li Wuwei, the author...
Read MorePurportedly under Chinese pressure, South Africa has denied the Dalai Lama a visa to attend a conference on fighting xenophobia and racism. From The Irish Times: Several Nobel peace prize laureates have threatened to boycott a...
Read MoreThe grass-mud horse (草泥马) meme has been spreading like wildfire over the Internet in China and shows no signs of banking. Shanghaiist has collected three more original songs and videos of the mythical creature which has become...
Read MoreTensions continue to rachet up from the March 9 naval standoff between five Chinese ships and the US surveillance vessel Impeccable in the South China Sea. Beijing has sent its most powerful patrol ship to protect fishing boats...
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