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In Vanity Fair, Simon Winchester rides the high-speed rail in China and marvels at how far the country has come, despite the safety issues and corruption in the transportation industry: I think I had probably never seen in my...
Read MoreThe BBC program The Strand has an interview with Jie Li of Harvard University about Hu Fayun’s novel Such Is This World@sars.come, and about the role of the Internet in Chinese society. Listen to the program here. Read a...
Read MoreFor the Diplomat, Minxin Pei writes that the conventional wisdom that China is “the world’s quintessential practitioner of realpolitik” is flawed: The portrayal of Beijing as a non-ideological pragmatist in...
Read MorePaul Crook, a journalist with BBC World, talks to the program about his experiences growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, with his Communist parents, David and Isabel Crook, who moved there in 1940: In the autumn...
Read MoreFollowing the Dalai Lama’s announcement that he would determine the procedure for finding his successor when he is about 90 years old, and that the Chinese government would have no role in the process, Beijing has fired...
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