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Nina and Tim Zagat, founders of the respected Zagat restaurant guides, have written an op-ed in the New York Times bemoaning the sad state of Chinese restaurants in the U.S. and calling for “dumpling diplomacy” to bring talented Chinese chefs to our shores: Like so many other aspects of Chinese life, the culinary scene in […]
Read MoreVia Virtual China, a link to the Chinese Animated Short Oscars. The film below is called Life is Actually Like This. From Virtual China: ÁîüÊ¥ªÂéüÊù•ÊòØËøôʆ∑ÁöÑ (Life is Actually Like This), by students at the Beijing Film Academy, is one of the most popular and highly-rated shorts. It cuts between animation and live action a few […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reviews a new memoir by Kang Zhengguo, currently a professor at Yale: Dreamy, lazy, romantic, stubborn and impulsive, Mr. Kang spelled trouble from the start. He was not a dissident in the normal sense, but a determined individualist and a goof-off, seemingly intent on working against his own best interests, which […]
Read MoreAsia Times looks at the “brain drain” as China loses some of its brightest talents overseas: A recent study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the nation’s top think-tank, shows that China is losing more first-rate minds to the West than any other country in the world. The phenomenon amounts to a new […]
Read MoreDissent Magazine is featuring several articles about China, including one by Daniel Bell in which he says a likely scenario for the future of China’s political system involves, “a strong, meritocratically chosen legislature that has constitutional priority over the democratically elected house.”: Nobody argues that the current political system should remain in place once the […]
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