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The New Yorker magazine has a lengthy feature piece by Indian writer Pankaj Mishra about the railroad to Tibet, which he took from Beijing to Lhasa to investigate what impact the train would have on Tibetan culture and society. The article includes an interview with Tibetan writer and blogger Woeser. Unfortunately only an abstract of […]
Read MoreFrom the AP: The list of Chinese food exports rejected at American ports reads like a chef’s nightmare: pesticide-laden pea pods, drug-laced catfish, filthy plums and crawfish contaminated with salmonella. Yet, it took a much more obscure item, contaminated wheat gluten, to focus U.S. public attention on a very real and frightening fact: China’s chronic […]
Read MoreShanghaiist reports on a recent expose in the Chinese media of illegal blood-selling in Guangdong Province: When you’ve got nothing left to sell, sell your blood. That’s how many people in China, most notably in Henan, got AIDS. But as long as there’s poverty, you can bet that there will be people willing to sell […]
Read MoreCaijing reports on the roadside vendor who was sentenced to death for killing a member of the “urban management team” (chengguan): Unlicensed sausage vendor Cui Yingjie was on his knees, begging Beijing street inspectors during a routine raid last August to let him keep his cooker-equipped tricycle cart. When they refused, Cui fatally stabbed an […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (photo: Wen at Japanese parliament, via AFP): Shortly after Mr. Wen’s arrival, he and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks and issued a statement that promised, in general, to increase cooperation in economic, energy, environmental and military matters. “Both countries support each other’s peaceful development, and will enhance political trust […]
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