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From Newsweek: Sometime over the next few weeks, a shipment of lawn furniture, brake pads, lamps or the like is going to make history. The manufacturer, one among tens of thousands churning out product 24/7 in China’s humming coast-al cities, will fill an order bound for the United States, take payment in American dollars and […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: With the Chinese government promising foreign journalists unprecedented freedom in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games, the trials of Zhao Yan and Ching Cheong serve as a reminder of the reality on the ground. Zhao, a researcher for The New York Times, was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday. […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: China’s economic boom is starting to reach the most remote corners of western China, giving millions of the world’s poorest people a chance to think about something other than where their next meal is coming from. But from the mountains of the Himalayas to the scrubland of Inner Mongolia, the quest for […]
Read MoreA cityscape in Yantai, Shandong Province, by china.sixty4
Read MoreFrom The New Yorker magazine: On the evening of June 20th, several hundred physicists, including a Nobel laureate, assembled in an auditorium at the Friendship Hotel in Beijing for a lecture by the Chinese mathematician Shing-Tung Yau In the late nineteen-seventies, when Yau was in his twenties, he had made a series of breakthroughs that […]
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