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China Media Project and Global Voices have updates in the case of journalist/blogger Zhai Minglei, who has been harassed by police since he spoke out about the closure of his magazine, Minjian. From CMP: Last week CMP reported...
Read MoreThe New York Times’ columnist David Brooks writes about Internet entrepreneur Edward Tian as an example of the generation who came of age during the Cultural Revolution: By the early 1990s, Deng Xiaoping’s reforms were beginning to transform China, the Internet was beginning to transform the world and Tian seized the historical moment. He and […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times reviews the Chinese-made Jialing JH600 motorcycle by driving it along the Silk Road: Riding 1,700 miles in eight days isn’t anything I’d normally brag about. But I was riding a Chinese motorcycle. In China. Over pavement and gravel. Across the Tianshan mountains and the Taklamakan desert. From elevations of 13,400 feet […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily has officially weighed in on the South China Tiger brouhaha. From a commentary on November 22, excerpts translated by CDT: …Until now,¬† the last card of [the South China Tiger controversy] has still...
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