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Twenty Uighurs who fled China in the wake of rioting in Xinjiang in July 2009 were deported from Cambodia a year ago while waiting to receive asylum from the U.S. Since returning to China, they have not been accounted for by the...
Read MorechinaSMACK has translated a list published by Xinhua of the top ten Internet terms and phrases of 2010. From their explanation of “My dad is Li Gang”: 我爸是李刚 [wǒ bà shì lǐ gāng] On the night of 2010 October 16th,...
Read MoreAn article in the New York Times reports on China’s efforts to pressure its allies to boycott the Nobel prize ceremony last week in Oslo, and how this reflects a changing dynamic between the democracies and the...
Read MoreIn the Hong Kong Economic Journal, China scholar James Seymour reviews Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 and compares it to “Tombstone,” by Chinese scholar Yang...
Read MoreThe Summer Palace in Winter, by Philip Barnaart
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