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In the wake of a domestic uproar over “vulgar” pop songs, the New York Times looks at what happens when popular music is “harmonized”: Even without resorting to direct censorship, the state has formidable...
Read MoreColin Thubron’s latest travel book, Shadow of the Silk Road, chronicles his journey down the full length of the fabled route. The Times reviewed it last year when the book was released in the U.K. (It comes out in paperback in the U.S. this week): From the very first page, where we join the author […]
Read MoreApparently in the run-up to the 17th Party Congress, the latest edition of the Economist, which focused on workers and the poor, had several pages removed before being distributed inside China, according to Jean Chen’s blog. She gives a list of the expurgated pages and posts the full articles.
Read MoreThe New York Times analyzes the recently concluded 17th Party Congress: President Hu Jintao used the word democracy 61 times in his main address to the congress. The official Xinhua news agency reported that the party nominated 221 candidates to fill the 204 full seats on the Central Committee, meaning that 8.3 percent of those […]
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