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From Time Asia: Could this spell the end to the likes of Beijing Yosemite and Chateau Regalia? In an attempt to curb China’s property boom and address the imbalance between rich and poor, the Ministry of Land and Resources last week halted the allocation of land for luxury villas. Property rates in Shanghai”China’s frothiest market”have […]
Read MoreFrom New America Media: Q: How does the Internet perpetuate the ideals of the Tiananmen? A: There is a continuity between Tiananmen and free expression through the Internet. Tiananmen was a moment of freedom for the Chinese people under Communist rule and also in the thousands and thousands of years of Chinese history. People tasted […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: With more than 1,400 works from 200 different Chinese contemporary artists, Swiss businessman Uli Sigg has amassed the world’s most comprehensive collection of Chinese contemporary art. Sigg lived in China in the 1980s while working for Schindler Lifts, a manufacturer of escalators and elevators. Yet it wasn’t until he returned to China […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post [Full text]: A U.S.-based rights group on Thursday condemned China’s closed-door conviction and jailing of 13 villagers for their roles in a protest that was quelled with riot police opening fire. At least three people died and eight were wounded in Dongzhou, a village in the southern province of […]
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio (link): Chinese dissident author Ma Jian‘s story collection Stick Out Your Tongue bends time and reality in its pictures of individuals trying to fit into families and society. The collection was published in China in 1997; since then, Ma Jian’s work has been banned there. The new translation of stories inspired […]
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