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In Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, John Pomfret traces the lives of four of his classmates at Nanjing University, which he attended as a 20-year-old Stanford student in 1981. Given the rare opportunity to live in a Chinese dorm room with seven undergraduates, Pomfret gained an intimate knowledge of […]
Read MoreFrom The Telegraph: Toiling through stifling summer heat in flimsy plimsolls, ragged clothes and hard hats, Beijing’s construction workers struggle round the clock to build a city worthy of the 2008 Olympic Games. But as if dangerous working conditions and some of the lowest wages in the world were not enough to contend with, the […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: After 26 years of receiving food aid, China has emerged as the world’s third largest food donor, according to a report released today by the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP). China donated 577,000 tonnes of food to more than a dozen countries around the world in 2005, with the great majority sent […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The trial of a blind rural lawyer, charged in what rights activists say is a politically motivated case, was postponed Thursday, and a group of his supporters was assaulted by unknown assailants outside the courthouse. As many as 200 people traveled to China’s eastern Shandong province to support Chen Guangcheng, whose […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: Much of Lhasa’s old-world charm and ways of life unchanged for centuries have disappeared. Average annual incomes have nearly quadrupled to ¬£570 since 1986. Chinese tourists were virtually unknown in Tibet 20 years ago. In 1987 it had 47,000 visitors; this year the figure is expected to approach 3million. Most will be […]
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