March 25, 2004 “China’s economic miracle has had an ironic side effect. The communist government has created an economic powerhouse with a more entrenched class system than any capitalist country could imagine. Although China has had the world’s fastest growing economy for 25 years, its new wealth is spreading unevenly. The once narrow gap between […]
Read MoreMarch 29, 2004 “Chinese studies are booming throughout Asia. At the largest chain of private language schools in Japan, enrollment in Chinese in 2003 was double that in 2002 ” displacing French as the second most popular language after English.” Click here for full story.
Read More“But few signs emerge of major attitude change BEIJING — For new Chinese leaders who promise to listen more to ordinary people, it’s a request they don’t want to hear: to declare that their political forefathers were wrong to crush the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement. The government faces new prodding this month with the […]
Read More“HANGZHOU, China — On a Saturday night as the disco beat pulsated at a popular gay bar, this prosperous industrial city was set to enter the modern, cautious age of AIDS awareness due to the efforts of local health officials and visiting experts from Chicago. The first evening did not go exactly as anticipated. While […]
Read MoreFeature story on workers in China petitioning authorities for compensation for lost lands and jobs. The Associated Press Thursday, March 11, 2004 BEIJING – In a shabby alley in southern Beijing, worlds away from the imposing hall where the politically powerful plot China’s future, the country’s aggrieved and downtrodden come to beg for a fair […]
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