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From Epoch Times: Sixteen years ago, Fang Zheng, a senior at the Beijing College of Sports, was struck from behind by an army tank on a street near Tiananmen Square. He was leaving the site with the last crowd of petitioning and...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Verdi’s “Macbeth” was never like this. Here, too, the story is Shakespeare’s, more or less, but the trappings are vintage Chinese. “The Kingdom of Desire,” which opened at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. on Thursday evening, is an adaptation of “Macbeth” in the style of Beijing opera by the Contemporary Legend […]
Read MoreFrom Foreign Policy in Focus, via Asia Times: At first glance, the growing tension between China and Japan seems almost inexplicable. Massive anti-Japanese demonstrations in China over events that took place more than half a century ago? A heated exchange filled with mutual threats over an offshore petroleum field that Western oil companies think is […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Tens of thousands in Hong Kong have held a vigil on the 16th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Protesters sang songs and listened to speeches in China’s only commemoration of events in the capital, Beijing.
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: When Ching Cheong left his wife, Mary Lau, in Hong Kong to cross the Chinese border 45 minutes away, he thought he was scoring a major publishing coup in Asia. Instead, he wound up in Chinese custody charged with espionage. According to Ms. Lau, her husband, a prominent Hong Kong […]
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