Paulina Hartono is a graduate of UC Berkeley.
From The Sydney Morning Herald: The road to China’s suburban dream is potted with the usual grievances. The bus to town is too crowded, the toll road too expensive, developers too dishonest. But the young families who were driven by Beijing’s sizzling property prices to buy at Grand Jade Garden, on the city’s eastern fringe […]
Read MoreFrom The Radio Free Asia: Prominent Chinese civil rights lawyer Guo Feixiong has been beaten in prison and is now on the fifteenthday of a hunger strike, his wife and sister have said. “He was beaten Dec. 18, the fifth day after he entered the prison in Meizhou. A fellow prisoner beat him while more […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: There is no escaping China: Chinese art, Chinese exports, the Chinese economy, Chinese dollar reserves, Chinese growth. Next year’s Olympics in Beijing are focusing the world’s eager eyes on the Chinese capital. While London struggles to persuade a sceptical public about the need to spend more than £9bn, Beijing is spending […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: As 2008 draws near, very few educated people can still be unaware of the rising economic and strategic power of Asia. Consider 2007. The year began with China firing a ballistic missile to destroy a weather satellite in orbit, a successful test of space warfare that sent shockwaves through the US. […]
Read MoreFrom Chinese BBS txrjy.com: The photo is taken in front of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) branch at Shiyan city, Hubei province. The top banner (from the bank): Creating A Peaceful Work Unit, Constructing a Harmonious Bank The lower banner (from the demonstrators): I Gave the Bank My Youth, The Bank Grew […]
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