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From the Taipei Times: Reinventing China is a useful and meticulous book that has three major virtues. First, it offers an over-view of a crucial era of Chinese filmmaking, linking the social background, the filming activities and the personal biographies of the directors. Second, it contains intelligent critiques of the films discussed, essentially all the […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Li’s account of what happened that morning has become part of a bitter struggle between the local Communist Party apparatus and a group of discontented farmers who want new leadership for their village. The vote-buying at Li’s pancake stand, the farmers allege, was but one episode in a campaign during which […]
Read MoreTime Magazine has a cover story “China’s New Revolution,” accompanied by several articles and features about China, including: Cover Story: Small World, Big Stakes The U.S. and China are intimately linked–for better or worse. Can we make room for each other? The Last Frontier Almost anything goes these days–but you still can’t oppose the Communist […]
Read MoreFrom Wired Magazine: Twenty-eight floors above the traffic-choked streets of China’s most wired city, blogger and tech entrepreneur Isaac Mao sums up his opinion of Microsoft and its treatment of the Chinese bloggers with one word. “Evil,” says Mao. “Internet users know what’s evil and what’s not evil, and MSN Spaces is an evil thing […]
Read MoreFrom the Globalist: The EU plans to lift the arms ban imposed on China and the U.S. Congress has reacted in disbelief. The U.S. legislators are outraged at what they see as the willingness of European allies to provide arms to a country that U.S. forces would have to fight in the event of a […]
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