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From the Financial Times, via the A Glimpse of the World blog (link): In 1926, Aldous Huxley reported that Shanghai was “life itself – dense, rank, richly clotted”. Today, the adjectives – also once used for Cairo, Damascus, Bombay, Calcutta and Benares – evoke not so much a place as the prejudices and fears of […]
Read MoreThe New York Times has launched a website (link) to accompany the Discovery Channel program “China Rises.” The site includes CBC’s China archives, video clips from the Discovery program, and a link to China news articles from the NYT.
Read MoreFrom ABC News (link): When a group of senior Chinese economists, officials and scholars gathered in early March to discuss the current situation in China, they exchanged frank views behind closed doors. The high-level forum, which was organized by a think tank linked to the government’s Cabinet, was intended to provide policy advice to the […]
Read MoreFrom The Times (link): HOLLYWOOD tends to hold up a mirror to America’s anxieties, reflecting the country’s national neuroses of the moment. So, in the Seventies, when Americans fretted about nuclear power, film-makers responded with Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon combating The China Syndrome. Today, a remake of the same title would be just as […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist (link): Huang Yixin and Wei Wei, two students at the Guangzhou College of Fine Arts, were hanging around their dormitory last summer and decided”as one does”to turn on their webcam, put on their Houston-Rockets jerseys and lip-synch a few of their favourite songs by the Backstreet Boys. They uploaded the clips to […]
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