Japhet Weeks is a graduate student in Asian Studies and Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Australia’s Mandarin-speaking Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is having to fend off criticism that he’s too soft on China as anti-China sentiment grows at home. From Reuters: With Rudd urging a greater IMF role for China...
Read MoreMatt Pearce, an English teacher living in Hong Kong, has been sentenced to six months in jail for staging a protest against China’s human rights record. From the BBC: He hung banners on the Tsing Ma Bridge on 8 August last...
Read MoreIn China’s Xinjiang, Han Chinese and native Muslim Uighurs live side by side, but time zones apart. From The Los Angeles Times: When communist China was formed in 1949, Mao Tse-tung decreed that everybody should follow a...
Read MoreAccording to the head of Tibet’s tourism industry, the region is now “harmonious and safe” for foreign tourists. More from The New York Times: The Chinese government will reopen Tibet to foreign tourists on April 5 after a...
Read MoreMen playing Chinese chess in Shanghai, by Gregory Perez.
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