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In the New Yorker, John Updike reviews Ha Jin’s new novel, A Free Life: His new novel, “A Free Life,” (Pantheon; $26), is a relatively lumpy and uncomfortable work, of which a first draft, he confides in a brief afterword, was completed in the year 2000. In an interview that same year, with Bookreporter.com, he […]
Read MoreThe New York Times interviews Anne Lauvergeon, CEO of France’s nuclear energy giant Areva, about the recent deal struck with China, the largest in the industry’s history: The agreement will bring both technology and much-needed energy to China, which has the world’s fastest-growing appetite for energy. But the deal could prove an even greater boon […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post has the latest report about government reactions to a landslide near the Three Gorges Dam: A week after a landslide near the controversial Three Gorges Dam killed more than 30 people, Chinese officials on Tuesday defended the environmental work around the project, arguing that “geological disasters” in the area “have been effectively […]
Read MoreThe Chicago Sun-Times takes a tour of Shanghai’s art galleries: Not long ago Suzhou Creek was full of abandoned factories, run down and unoccupied since the 1980s. But now the area, just 20 minutes by taxi from the happening Bund, Shanghai’s famous waterfront street, attracts tourists — and serious collectors — eager to check out […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports on the five-year environmental protection plan just released in Beijing: The plan includes previously announced targets that officials have failed to meet, including reducing pollutants such as sulfur dioxide by 10 percent. It warns that China’s emphasis on rapid economic growth is severely affecting public health. “The system does not work […]
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