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AP is reporting the death of David Lancashire, the first North American reporter to defy a US travel ban to go to China in the 1950s: Going to China for AP, he spent six weeks traveling more than 5,000 miles through what was then known in the West as “Red China” and produced a lengthy […]
Read MoreReuters writes about the incoming generation of Chinese leaders, who came of age during the Cultural Revolution: This turbulent period provides the social backdrop that shaped the formative years of rising political stars like Li Keqiang, Li Yuanchao and Xi Jinping, who lived through the chaos or were “sent down” to the countryside to learn […]
Read MoreViolence has again erupted in Shengyou, and foreign journalists have again been detained for trying to cover it. From AFP: Police in Shengyou village, Hebei province, detained two foreign journalists from Agence France-Presse on Wednesday after the reporters entered the village to confirm reports of August 28 clashes between police and villagers. The violence erupted […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times writes about Ai Weiwei’s video installation, “Beijing: Chang’an Boulevard,” which is going to make its U.S. premiere at Morono Kiang Gallery in LA: Traveling the entire length of this major east-west artery in Beijing, the artist stopped at 50-meter intervals (about 164 feet) to record minute-long takes on digital video. Each […]
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