Photo: An old man walks with birdcages, a traditional hobby for the elderly, in central Beijing, by Natalie Behring
An old man walks with birdcages, a traditional hobby for the elderly, in central Beijing, by Natalie Behring
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Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
War Lives On at Museum of the Macabre – Edward Cody
From the Washington Post (link): More than 200,000 Chinese filed through the remains of Japan’s notorious Unit 731 here last year, visiting the ghosts of World War II. In exhibits mounted throughout the bleak headquarters building, they saw wrenching descriptions of biological warfare experiments carried out on thousands of Chinese prisoners from 1939 to 1945. […]
Read MoreA new world with Chinese characteristics – David Gosset
From Asia Times (link): Not one single day goes by without news, debates and comments on China: business deals, trade negotiations, diplomatic summits, political events, state visits, financial ups and downs, societal trends … the list goes on. Conferences, forums, seminars, provocative articles, new papers and the latest books keep China-watchers very busy; but confronting […]
Read MoreThe Stones will play Shanghai, but China hasn’t rolled out the red carpet – Kathleen E. McLaughlin
From the San Francisco Chronicle (link): When the Rolling Stones take to their first mainland China stage Saturday, their audience isn’t likely to look much different than one in San Francisco. Rather than to a sea of Chinese faces, the band will play to an international crowd. A unique mix of censorship, daunting bureaucracy and […]
Read MoreQuick, catch a glimpse of Shanghai vanishing – Howard W. French
From the International Herald Tribune, via A Glimpse of the World blog (link): Come to Shanghai. Come to Shanghai, now! No, this is not a travel industry advertisement, nor a paid promotion of any kind. It is a warning, and those who don’t heed it soon will forever miss what has made this arguably Asia’s […]
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