Photo: A young bicycle cart driver rests leaning against a wall in the center of Yantai
A young bicycle cart driver rests leaning against a wall in the center of Yantai, by china.sixty4
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Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
A Hiatus in the Sino-Thai “Special Relationship” – Ian Storey
From the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: The ongoing political crisis in Thailand, which forced Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to temporarily resign in April and has now resulted in a coup by the Thai military, has not been good news for the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Since taking office in 2001, Thaksin has prioritized relations […]
Read MorePhoto: A calling booth in the Shanghai train station
A calling booth in the Shanghai train station, by monkeyking
Read MoreChina: Giant Contradictions – Orville Schell
On O’Reilly Radar, Stewart Brand summarizes a recent talk by Orville Schell about China: China is the most unresolved nation of consequence in the world,” Orville Schell began. It is defined by its massive contradictions. And by its massiveness— China’s population is estimated to be 1.25 to 1.3 billion; the margin of error in the […]
Read MoreChronicling China in upheaval – Joan Dupont
From the International Herald Tribune: Turned down by Cannes, “Still Life” had entered Venice on tiptoe, billed as the surprise film. Reviewers were mostly dismissive. “Almost zero plot but molto mood,” Variety reported. “It will appeal to the most faithful of the director’s camp followers and no one else.” Indeed Jia, 36, is known mostly […]
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