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China Geeks has translated Han Han’s blog post, written after he watched the devastating building fire in Shanghai which killed 79 people: The reasons for this disaster are poor fire prevention [standards] and the baffling...
Read MoreNPR reports that the divorce rate in China has doubled in the past ten years, and one in five Chinese marriages don’t last: “We’d known each other three weeks when we went to get a wedding certificate,”...
Read MoreThe BBC reports on an incident in which web traffic to U.S. government websites was briefly rerouted to China last year: The incident, which happened for 18 minutes last April, is published in a report by the US-China Economic...
Read MoreAfter demolishing much of the historic part of the city, Beijing authorities are now aiming to turn Kashgar into the Shenzhen of the west by making it a Special Economic Zone. From the Los Angeles Times: Chinese officials hope...
Read MoreOn the Financial Times, Martin Wolf tries to find an answer to the question everyone is asking: …We have to recognise what the rise of China does obviously mean. First, we are seeing the end not only of the brief period of...
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