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Many thanks to Geremie R. Barmé for contributing the following essay to CDT: Let the Spiel Begin Zhang Yimou, the avant-garde film director turned populist will lead the group designing the opening and closing ceremonies of the...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Chinese prosecutors have indicted a researcher for The New York Times on accusations of fraud and disclosing state secrets, a reinstatement of the same case that authorities dropped two months ago. The reintroduction of charges against Zhao Yan, 44, who worked in The Times’s Beijing bureau, means that legal […]
Read MoreHonor guard practice in front of the Forbidden City in Beijing, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Several galleries in this city’s thriving arts district were recently ordered by government officials to remove more than 20 paintings, apparently because they dealt with political themes, artists and gallery directors here said. The works, some of which featured radical portrayals of Mao and references to the Tiananmen Square […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online (link): NIE YUANZI is a frail, slightly stooped 85-year-old woman who lives with her two Persian cats in a tiny borrowed Beijing bedsit. It is hard to imagine that this was the person who sparked the Cultural Revolution, which cost tens of thousands of lives and destroyed the livelihoods of millions. But […]
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