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For the Los Angeles Times Review of Books, Jeffrey Wasserstrom reflects on analogies regularly employed between Orwell’s 1984 and political control in China, and asks whether the ideas of Aldous Huxley might make a more...
Read MoreMore tragedy for Foxconn workers, as an explosion at a Chengdu plant killed two workers and injured at least ten. From the Guardian: A spokesman for the company said people had been injured in a fire at the plant but that it had...
Read MoreAfter holding artist Ai Weiwei in incommunicado detention for six weeks, Chinese authorities have finally given specifics of the charges against him. A Xinhua report says he is being held on suspicion of evading a “huge...
Read MoreSouth Korean media has reported that North Korea’s heir apparent Kim Jong Eun is traveling in China on his first trip overseas since being chosen to take over power from his father, Kim Jong Il. From the Washington Post:...
Read MoreA group of Bon monks, Qinghai, by Christopher Cherry
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