Melissa Chan is currently a graduate student in the department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in English in 2009. Her current research interests are diasporic Chinese populations, film, and translation.
With the recent handover of power in North Korea to Kim Jong-un, his older brother is said to be under China’s protection in case Kim Jong-un’s regime collapses. Kim Jong-nam lives in exile in Beijing and Macao. The...
Read MoreAs a response to public pressure, Beijing officials have begun to release detailed data on pollution. While there were expectations of the report detailing how bad the air quality was, the first day figures were lower than the...
Read MoreA death from bird flu was reported in Guizhou, making it the second fatality within a month. This fatality follows reported deaths in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The Telegraph reports: The latest victim, 39, fell ill on...
Read MoreFor the first time in two and a half years, China’s GDP a registered single digit growth in 2011 due to the global financial crisis and a decline in exports. Despite the drop in GDP, the numbers were still higher than the...
Read MoreAccording to the Hong Kong government’s statistics on gold sales, gold imports to China have hit a record high due to investors looking to protect their wealth from the property slump and economic slowdown. The price of...
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