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In the Korea Herald, Wenran Jiang writes: Once again, protests against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s annual visit to the Yasukuni Shrine are breaking out in China as well as South Korea. Koizumi’s insistence on paying homage to the war dead interred at Yasukuni, where convicted war criminals from World War II are among the […]
Read MoreFrom Confessions of an Aca/Fan (via ESWN): Last month, what some are describing as “the largest political protest gathering in a virtual world game ever” occurred within the Chinese Massively Multiplayer Game, Fantasy Westward Journey (FWJ). Comparative Media Studies alum Zhan Li has been working with me over the past several weeks to piece together […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Besides being one of the most recognizable tourist sites in China, the landmark Friendship Store on Beijing’s Peace Avenue has meant many things to many people. When it opened in 1973, it was a comfort to foreigners, who back then could not find their imported wine, shoes and food anywhere else. […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Draconian management of information is a time-honored tradition in China, where the pen has always garnered roughly the same respect as the sword. But China’s leaders have rarely been so open about major media controls – and have never publicly considered writing them into its legal code. “This is definitely […]
Read MoreFrom MSN Money: Even if I’m right about China suffering a major economic break in 2009, I don’t think that will end, by any means, the country’s extraordinary drive toward global economic power. Economic train wrecks of the sort I describe here are the normal growing pains of any rapidly developing economy. However, history argues […]
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