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The Independent reports on the destruction of Beijing’s ancient hutongs: These are troubled times for Beijing’s ancient hutong laneways, which once fanned out around the city to form a graceful network of passageways lined with traditional courtyard houses – grey, Ming-dynasty environs filled with atmosphere. Only a third of the hutongs still exist; the rest […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Used to widespread Western criticism on China’s human-rights record, lack of religious freedom, and Han chauvinism, and the inaccurate view that China’s ruling party is a monolithic entity obsessed exclusively with maintaining an unfair status quo, some fail to acknowledge the extent of China’s social pluralism and political opening-up. In fact, the […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Eight years after banning door-to-door sales for wreaking social turmoil, China is reopening its doors to the Avon lady and her rivals from Amway and Mary Kay. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese ” women and men ” are beginning to hit the streets and go online to plug the latest […]
Read MoreA little boy eats sunflower seeds under his mother’s cart in Shanghai, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreFrom Archinect.com, an interview with artist Ai Weiwei: Ai Weiwei (Beijing) is an artist, curator, and architectural designer who has been working in China and the United States since the late 1970’s. An original member of “Stars,” a group of artists working in Beijing in the late 1970’s during the first years of reform, Ai […]
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