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From Inside Higher Ed: At Northwestern University this fall, there are two sections of third-year Chinese, the first time ever that a second section has been needed. At Yale University, enrollment in introductory Chinese is up 68 percent from last year, and for the first time professors can remember, significant numbers of freshmen are arriving […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Rong Yiren, the businessman dubbed a “red capitalist” before tycoons became commonplace in China, died in Beijing on Wednesday at age 89, state media reported Thursday. In one of the most intriguing personal stories of survival and influence through the tumultuous period when China embraced and then rejected Communism, Rong […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: And that’s why I came here. Because Shangri-La County is a microcosm of the biggest challenge facing China. Put simply: if development doesn’t come to Shangri-La and other rural areas, the divide between haves and have-nots will widen and destabilize China. But if the wrong development comes here, it will […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: …Perhaps nothing better illustrates the myth of “one country, two systems” than the way Beijing halted democratization in Hong Kong. According to the Basic Law — Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, drafted by Beijing — the “ultimate aim” is to elect both the chief executive and the entire legislature by “universal suffrage”; the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The China Construction Bank, fresh from raising $8 billion in a feverish initial public offering, saw those shares put in only a lukewarm performance in their first day of trading on Thursday. The much-anticipated offering was China’s biggest ever, and the largest worldwide in four years. And despite the tepid […]
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