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The BBC reports on the Chinese government’s efforts to foster an expanding middle class in order to help the country achieve rapid economic growth: “In the booming eastern cities there is a confidence and energy in the air – thick as it is with the dust from countless building sites – that suggests plans for […]
Read MoreThe IHT published an obituary of a woman believed to be the last person to be fluent in a rare script used for secret communication among women in Hunan Province: “The script, Nushu, represents the language spoken in Jiangyong Prefecture in southern Hunan. Women, who were denied education for many centuries, used it to share […]
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post has written about the list of keywords filtered on the Chinese Internet. The full article is here, via Asia Media.
Read MoreChina is building a new wind power plant outside Beijing in an effort to clean up the city’s air, and as part of a concerted effort to create new renewable energy sources, according to an article from Wired News: “The new wind power plant, located 60 miles outside Beijing in Guangting, will generate 400 megawatts […]
Read MoreFrom KansasCity.com today: “The rise of social activism underscores the expanding liberties that many people in China say they are experiencing. But it coincides with other trends that convey how turbulent China has become as the Communist Party opens up the economy but keeps a tight grip on power. The number of citizens filing last-ditch […]
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