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Reporters Without Borders is reporting that Li Minying, a former editor of Southern Metropolitan Daily, has been released after serving half of his six-year sentence for alleged corruption. Li was arrested together with former editors Cheng Yizhong and Yu Huafeng in a case that was widely viewed as an attempt by the authorities to crack […]
Read MoreIn Der Spiegel, Andreas Lorenz writes about the history of Taoism and its continued influence over life in China: The cradle of Taoism, one of China’s key religions, can be found 40 miles northwest of Chengdu, a city of 1 million in Sichuan province. It was Mount Qingcheng that the celestial master Zhang Daoling chose […]
Read MoreThe To The Point radio program had a special report yesterday on China’s role in Africa: While Chinese President Hu Jintao is on a 12-day tour of Africa, the Pentagon has announced the formation of a new command structure focusing on that continent. Trade between China and Africa has more than quadrupled in the last […]
Read MoreRolling Stone Magazine has published a lengthy article by Joshua Kurlantzick about the future of Tibetan culture: But Tibet’s time may be running out. In the past decade, China has waged a quiet but ruthless war on Tibetan society — part of a deliberate and sophisticated campaign to strip “the Roof of the World” of […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Building the new China usually entails digging up the old China. Construction zones across the country are uncovering so many antiquities that it might be considered a golden era for archaeology ” except that sites and antiquities are often simply demolished by bulldozers or looted. “There are two enemies of […]
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