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Twenty-four children are in the hospital in Anhui getting treatment for lead poisoning, and more than 200 have been affected, the result of living near an illegal battery factory, NPR reports: The official Xinhua News Agency...
Read MoreBelow is the trailer for Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, a new documentary about the artist/activist, via Hypebeast.com: Unwavering in his efforts, Ai Weiwei is just as much an artist as he is an activist. Over the course of his career,...
Read MoreVice Premier Li Keqiang is in Europe on the latest of several visits to the continent by top Chinese officials, and the New York Times is asking, “What’s with China’s charm offensive in Europe?”: Chinese officials...
Read MoreJeffrey Wasserstrom sums up the best posts about China from around the web in 2010: I have come up with a dozen that seem particularly worth reading — or re-reading if you caught them the first time around — and then...
Read MoreGlobal Times reports on a recent case in China that brought to light the problems with the legal definition of rape: A 42-year-old security guard was sentenced to one year behind bars for “injuring” an 18-year-old...
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