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From China Daily: Through Chinese filmmaker Jiang Zhi’s film, Our Love, the hidden voice of China’s drag queens finally reaches the ears of ordinary society. Based on the lives of three real queens living in Shenzhen’s underworld, the film is half-documentary, half-fiction. Sections of it are filmed in a talk show question-and-answer style, while fictional […]
Read MoreFrom the Miami Herald: Once considered too difficult and virtually useless by many Latin Americans, Chinese is quickly becoming the second language of choice for a growing number of people in the region as Beijing’s economic boom has dramatically increased trade and investments with the mostly Spanish-speaking continent. Three to five times more Latin Americans […]
Read MoreFrom the Register: Google has poached the founder of Microsoft Research’s Chinese facility to set-up and run its own Chinese R&D operations. Dr Kai-Fu Lee was Tuesday morning named head of a planned product and research development center in China, due to open in the third quarter, with Lee also planned to head-up Google’s Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: They grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution, when Mao Zedong’s brutal political campaigns in the 1960’s and 1970’s tore apart families, pitting children against their parents and husbands against their wives. Today, they are some of the most powerful deal makers in China, a group of rich and politically astute […]
Read MoreFrom the Detroit Free Press: Should we worry that the emergence of China and its 2 billion people as a global economic power will mean fewer jobs and lower wages for years, maybe decades to come, in Michigan? Or should we accept the inevitability of China’s rise, quit sniveling and go capture as much business […]
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