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Arthur Waldron wrote the following on the blog of Commentary Magazine: From China comes news, reported in the Chinese-language newspaper World Journal, that the works of Lu Xun“the country’s greatest modern author, a founder of the Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers, and a longtime favorite of the Communists”are being removed from high school curricula. These […]
Read MoreThe following op-ed, about the government’s use of restrictions on travel to control political dissidents, appeared on the blog of the Duihua Foundation: The reunion last week of Boston-based Chinese dissident Yang Jianli with his wife and son after five years in a Chinese prison hopefully marks the first of many conciliatory gestures Beijing will […]
Read MoreMembers of 20088, China’s youngest rock band, rehearse before a show, by sheilaz413
Read MoreThe Times looks at the recent deal by Taiwan’s Acer to buy U.S.-based Gateway through the lens of cross-straits relations: The deal represents a double setback to Lenovo and to China, which has a bitter and longstanding dispute with Taiwan over the island’s independence. Roger Kay, the president of Endpoint Technologies, an American consultancy, said: […]
Read MoreConcerns are mounting about how Beijing’s air pollution may affect Olympic athletes next year. The New York Times reports from the Track and Field World Championships in Osaka, Japan, where the extreme heat and humidity has made competing difficult for some athletes: At next year’s Olympics in Beijing, if pollution levels in that city are […]
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