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From the Christian Science Monitor (link): As China becomes more wealthy and worldly, it’s also experiencing a growing interest in spirituality. Chinese are emerging with “more time and freedom to think,” says Yuan Ci, a monk who works with the Buddhist Association of China in Beijing. In doing so, they are helping to revive China’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): China is revising a draft Property Law after delaying passage of the long-awaited legislation because of fierce ideological debate among officials and academics over its balancing of state and private rights. The dispute over the Property Law highlights political sensitivities that continue to surround Communist-ruled China’s embrace of the market […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor (link): Ni Youlian is the “Last Mohican” in a downtown neighborhood that used to have 4,000 families. He’s glad that President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have taken up the cause of ordinary people in their speeches this week at China’s annual National People’s Congress. But like so many […]
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio (link): Like everything else Internet-related in China, podcasts are exploding in popularity. From film parodies to pornography, audio and video downloads are pushing the boundaries of the law and decency. Irishman Ken Carroll started podcasting Chinese lessons just over five months ago. His learn-with-Ken podcasts now attract more than 10,000 visitors […]
Read MoreFrom Red Herring (link): Media coverage of northern Inuit clubbing baby seals was enough to charge emotions and virtually close down Canada’s fur trade in the 1980s. Images of white police officers clubbing blacks in Soweto Township outside Johannesburg sent international investors and multinationals packing in apartheid-era South Africa a decade earlier. Can reports of […]
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