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From Reuters, via Boston.com (link): You might have expected a throng of local fans when a well-regarded Chinese author spoke at a Shanghai literary festival in March, but Ma Jian‘s audience, like his readership, had only a handful of Chinese mainlanders. China-born Ma, whose translator-wife and passport are both British, is barely known in his […]
Read MoreFrom Smithsonian Magazine (link): If China’s colossal impact on world markets is now familiar, the effect of the red-hot economy at home, where it is fueling record levels of internal unrest, is less well known. Last year, China’s public security minister Zhou Yongkang reported that almost four million Chinese took part in nearly 75,000 protest […]
Read MoreFrom Fast Company (link): Like many people, Dan Mintz takes the time to meet his business associates at the airport; unlike most, he does it in a chauffeured Mercedes S600, escorted by a Shanghai police car. The Benz pulls right to the belly of the 747 inching its way to the gate, and the Staten […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online (link): Bruno Baumann carefully guides his canoe through the raging waters of the Sutlej River. Suddenly he can hardly believe his eyes: a huge labyrinth of caves appears behind a gate- like formation in the middle of the rock face of the cliffs. Along a stretch of the river extending for several […]
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune (link), Jonathan Spence writes: How can one catch today’s China in words? It is a country in constant motion, defying the laws of economic gravity, reaching out insistently around the world for raw materials to fuel its growth, eating up its land and its past, enticing outsiders to help it […]
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