Gao Fei is the pen name of a journalist from China now living and working in the U.S.
Helen Brown discusses the Western enjoyment of China’s “forbidden literary fruit,” with references to yellow books and blue books, Ezra Pound, “cold literature,” and the lack of domestic crime thrillers. From Telegraph newspaper online: Fifteen years ago, a big green book emerged from a country better known for a little red one. Jung Chang‘s family […]
Read MoreAn article from Inside Bay Area shows China as a super-polluter whose soot, mercury, and dust are migrating “6,000 miles across the Pacific to California” and questions its ability to stave off an environmental disaster amidst rapid industrialization. BEIJING ” A pale orange sun hangs low over the evening rush-hour, a brake-light procession of Mercedes, […]
Read MoreThe world’s biggest skatepark is in Shanghai, but there are plenty of other places to skateboard in China, including those not designated for skating. Photo credit: From gguillaumee Photo credit: From 2 dogs
Read MoreChina is recently seen to go on the offensive on product safety. China Daily pays attention to a book that shows the difficulty of actually boycotting all things “made in China.” In spite of growing US protests about imports from China, many Americans may find it hard to manage without the range of products that […]
Read MoreTaiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party plans to make changes in textbooks in favor of a national identity disentangled from what is historically Chinese. Critics from the Nationalist party see the move as “[distorting] the base of our national and cultural development.” From AP via Washington Post: Taiwan plans to revise school textbooks to drop references that […]
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