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The Los Angeles Times reports on the lengths that authorities went to in Xinjiang to ensure that the Muslim Uighur population there didn’t celebrate the holy month of Ramadan in August: In the aftermath of violent protests...
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Read MoreLast month, artist Ai Weiwei wrote an essay in Newsweek condemning his hometown of Beijing as a, “a nightmare. A constant nightmare.” On China Beat, writer Lijia Zhang responds with a defense of the capital: I love...
Read MoreMelissa Chan of Al Jazeera revisits the town of Ordos in Inner Mongolia, which, as she reported two years ago, was a ghost city being built out of nothing in the desert with government funds: Read more about Ordos via...
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