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From the Christian Science Monitor (link): The gray eight-story squeezed into a row of sedate official buildings seems innocuous. But from its radically efficient basement generator to the light volcanic ash soil on the garden roof deck, this is one of the cleanest and most energy efficient structures in China. In a country both energy-starved […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei (link): Last year’s publication of a controversial biography by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday and a proposal at this year’s NPC that he be removed from China’s currency have suggested that Mao Zedong may be falling out of favor with some. Whether being accused of atrocities during his tenure as China’s leader or […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune, via A Glimpse of the World blog (link): On March 15, the China Consumer Journal named Hao Jinsong one of 10 “consumer rights-defending heroes” of 2005. Last year Hao...
Read MoreMigrant workers at a Shanghai construction site in the wee hours of the morning, by monkeyking via flickr
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): In 1990, at 25, Wu Man was ushered onto a plane in Beijing as China’s leading player of the pipa, or Chinese lute. Sixteen hours later, she arrived in New Haven, an unknown adrift in the United States with scant English. Now Ms. Wu has risen to prominence again, […]
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