Gao Fei is the pen name of a journalist from China now living and working in the U.S.
From The Observer: In the middle of the 19th century, an area the size of Germany located between Beijing and Shanghai in central China was run for more than 15 years by the Nian rebels, a 50,000-strong network of bandit groups who lived by pillage and rape. The inability of the Imperial armies to quell […]
Read MoreAmericans go to Shenzhen to seek experimental stem cell therapy, from Salon’s “How the World Works”: Reading the blog postings of patients who have undergone experimental stem cell therapy in China, I found myself recalling the “black clinics” of Chiba city dreamed up by William Gibson in his breakthrough novel “Neuromancer.” In Japan, he’d known […]
Read MoreThe need to affirm “dragon culture,” from Xinhua: China’s most revered culture of dragon, or loong by its Chinese pronunciation, needs to be thoroughly explored, said a political advisor here on Sunday. Dragon, an imaginary animal based on a 7,000-year-old Chinese legend, is a combination of a horse’s head, snake’s body and chook’s claws. It […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese universities boasting the largest number of students in the world are endangered by severe financial crisis, a result of the rapid enrollment expansion since 1999, warned deputies to the National People’s Congress (NPC), the top legislature. To cater for students who flock to campus for higher education in expectation of finding a […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China will have more women deputies to the next National People’s Congress (NPC), or parliament, according to a bill being discussed at the ongoing annual session of the 10th NPC. The bill, to be put for voting next week, says that “the proportion of women deputies to the 11th National People’s Congress should […]
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