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Long-time human rights activist Li Xiaorong reports for the New York Review of Books blog on her recent meeting with President Obama: Many Chinese activists view state-sponsored “political reform” in China as simply dead. Human...
Read MoreWith President Hu Jintao about to arrive in Washington for a much-anticipated summit meeting with President Obama, expectations and suggestions for their discussions are rampant in the press. The New York Times reports that for...
Read MoreIn Time Magazine, Kate Merkel-Hess and Jeffrey Wasserstrom of China Beat write that China’s cultural legacy is more complex and diverse than government campaigns would lead us to believe: …Visions of imperial China...
Read MoreThe Obama administration is preparing for President Hu Jintao’s state visit this week by laying out its policies on a number of thorny issues and readying not one but two dinners between the two presidents. According to a...
Read MoreChina Geeks has translated part of an introduction to a 30,000 character report about housing demolition in 2010. Chinese media has been banned from writing about the report: In our analysis of 2010′s demolition events and...
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