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From the Taipei Times: It isn’t every day that a university professor goes to a factory in China and enrolls as one of the workforce in order to study the conditions there and the experiences of its workers. But this is what Pun Ngai has done in this remarkable book. Made in China is in […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: Outside this stark, but pastoral monument to the victims of Cambodia’s gory Khmer Rouge years southwest of Phnom Penh, a group of young men played cards recently and listened to Chinese pop music. Music from China seemed a bit incongruous, given that China, along with the United States and the Soviet Union, […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Anti-Japan violence, statements and other developments in China suggest the recent political situation in Beijing has been less stable than outward appearances indicate and that a hidden power struggle may have occurred during the past few weeks of unrest. State-run newspapers in China have recently suggested that the anti-Japan riots across the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABCNews.com: Taiwan’s leader on Monday invited rival China to talks under the principles of “peace, democracy and parity,” echoing a call by Taiwan’s opposition leader while on a visit to the mainland. President Chen Shui-bian called on Chinese leaders to begin negotiations shortly after Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan made a similar […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The three faces — English, American, African-American — press against one another in a sisterhood of pulchritude. They are the three graces, Est√©e Lauder’s iconic model trio. The reason you are feeling so lost in translation is that you are seeing them on posters screaming down Nanking Road, the Fifth […]
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