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From the New York Times: When Yo-Yo Ma began work on the Silk Road Project seven years ago, the music world stood by with a mixture of curiosity and skepticism. Why was Mr. Ma, known for his cello interpretations of Bach and Brahms, suddenly jumping on the world-music bandwagon? Would the involvement of musicians from […]
Read MoreFrom Art Daily: The Ashmolean Museum presents Everyone’s Life is an Epic: New Work by Qu Lei Lei, on view through July 17, 2005. For the first time in the Ashmolean’s series of Chinese exhibitions, a show will be devoted to the paintings of a living artist, Qu Lei Lei. Renowned worldwide, Lei Lei will […]
Read MoreFrom Yomiuri Shimbun, via Kansas City Star: A media blackout over anti-Japanese demonstrations was in effect across China on Monday despite an escalation in the number of demonstrations, and foreign media were kept away from the Japanese Embassy in Beijing after it was pelted with rocks and eggs by protesters over the weekend. Meanwhile, the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, agreed on a roadmap to settle a decades-old border dispute on Monday, as the nuclear rivals build a new “bridge of friendship”. Announcing a cooperative and strategic partnership for peace and prosperity, the pair signed several agreements from the border issue, to more […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Chinese researcher for The New York Times who has been held incommunicado for seven months on suspicion of leaking state secrets is now being investigated for financial fraud, Chinese security officials told the man’s lawyer in Beijing this week… Some legal experts and diplomats said it appeared possible that the […]
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