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In the new issue of the New Yorker, John Updike reviews two new Chinese novels, “My Life as Emperor,” by Su Tong and “Big Breasts & Wide Hips,” by Mo Yan: China, experts agree, is the nation of the future; its immense population, its acrobatic blend of totalitarian controls and booming fre enterprise, and the […]
Read MoreIn the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief (via Asia Media), Willy Lam writes: It is not surprising that President Hu Jintao and his colleagues decided in mid-April to cool down anti-Japanese protests: a body blow has been dealt to China’s reputation as a responsible member of the global community. The fact that the Chinese Communist Party […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Philippine communist rebels, turning from allies to critics of China, said on Tuesday that Beijing’s shift to a capitalist economy had undermined some revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia. The 8,000-member New People’s Army (NPA), which drew ideological inspiration from China’s first generation of communist leaders, has been waging a violent guerrilla war for […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via USA Today: China reacted coolly to an invitation Tuesday by Taiwan’s leader for President Hu Jintao to visit the island, rejecting any official contact until the Taiwanese ruling party drops a clause in its constitution calling for formal independence. The lukewarm response came hours after Beijing offered a pair of giant pandas […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A Chinese editor whose newspaper broke stories about China’s SARS outbreak and a fatal police beating has been ordered not to attend a ceremony to accept a United Nations press freedom award, a news report said Monday. Cheng Yizhong, former editor-in-chief of the Southern Metropolis News in China’s southern province of Guangdong, was […]
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