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Another article from the Christian Science Monitor about changing attitudes in China. In this one, historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes about changing perspectives of history in Shanghai: It is obvious that China is a radically different place than it was 20 years ago. But it is equally clear that not everything about the country has been […]
Read MoreAn article in the Christian Science Monitor credits the Internet for fostering an independent spirit among high school students in China: Excited and emboldened by the wealth of information they find on the Internet, Chinese teens are breaking centuries of tradition to challenge their teachers and express their own opinions in class. Wearing jerseys emblazoned […]
Read MoreFrom PhysOrg.com: Those who control the image strings for government and business interests in China, the world’s largest single market, are trying hard to bury the country’s well-embedded “Made in China” image and embrace a new one: “Created in China.” The huge Far Eastern country, which ran up a staggering $232.5 billion trade surplus with […]
Read MoreHua Xinmin, an urban preservationist and daughter of architect Hua Lanhong, wrote the following piece in Southern Weekend about the problems with the current urban planning policies in China which are allowing the historical parts of cities to be destroyed while also ruining large swaths of arable land (original Chinese version here). Thanks to David […]
Read MoreIn the Washington Post, a lengthy and glowing portrayal of pre-Olympics Beijing from a first time visitor: I quickly discovered that no city moves so quickly between massive and modest, between anonymous and intimate. On my first day, for example, I drifted south from the vast, gray expanse of Tiananmen Square into the narrow hutongs, […]
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