Samuel Wade (@samuel_wade@mstdn.ca) is Executive Editor for CDT English, and is based in Vancouver.
At Foreign Policy, Eric Abrahams describes the fall and rise of humour in the People’s Republic: … China’s educational policy and official pronouncements did not stray far from this pattern of value statements...
Read MoreA new agreement for China to import seal meat from Canada has come under fire as betraying a “racist and cultural imperialistic attitude”. Supporters, however, hope that it might help sustain Inuit communities whose...
Read MoreAt The Guardian, Henry Nicholls examines China’s cultivation of the giant panda as cultural capital, and the terms under which foreign zoos are allowed to take them in. Although Li Keqiang described the pair heading for...
Read MoreZhou Youguang, father of pinyin, celebrated his 106th birthday (January 13th) with two cakes, one shaped like a typewriter and the other like a copy of his latest book. Among the enormous changes he has witnessed since his...
Read MoreAn editorial in The Independent contrasts the banquets that greeted Li Keqiang on his visit to London with the conditions endured by missing human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng during an earlier incarceration: When the Chancellor,...
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