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From Shanghai Daily: Dubbed as an “art feast,” Beijing’s second International Art Biennial will be held from tomorrow to October 20, organizers announced yesterday. The 30-day event, the largest of its kind in China, will attract more than 400 artists from 67 countries and regions, including such big names as Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter, […]
Read MoreFrom the Village Voice: Before Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 opened here last month, it was heralded by a still of Zhang Ziyi espousing the kind of tantalizing erotic mystery that movies themselves seldom project these days. It might prove the most iconic image to have appeared since Marlene Dietrich was photographed leaning back on a beer […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian’s News Blog: Starbucks’ long march into China has breached the Great Wall itself. Tourists will be able to drink cappuccino, frappuccino and other coffee concoctions at one of China’s greatest cultural treasures after the Seattle-based company announced it had opened a shop at Badaling, 47 miles north of Beijing. More on this […]
Read MoreFrom ABC News Good Morning America: China’s economy continues to skyrocket and, with it, American fortunes have been won and lost. “Good Morning America’s” Bill Weir recently traveled to China and returned with a four-part series: “Made in China: Your Job, Your Future, Your Fortune.” In the first installment, Weir examines China’s transformation from a […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: After rapid expansion since 2003, the income gap in China has reached the second most serious “Yellow Light” level, or alert level, says an article on state media… It says the United Nations Development Program released statistics that show the Gini coefficient, a statistical measure of inequality in which zero expresses complete […]
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