Wu Nan

Wu Nan is a student of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley. Wu Nan worked for the Boston Globe Beijing Bureau as a news assistant for three years. She also worked as a reporter for one and a half years at the Economic Observer, a Chinese national financial weekly based in Beijing. Her reports focused on the changes in modern China society and the world.

Builders at the bottom- Jehangir Pocha

From The Boston Globe: The concrete shells of this city’s rising skyscrapers hold more than the promise of being tomorrow’s homes and offices — they’re already the abode of hundreds of thousands of China’s migrant construction workers. Sun Yi Lin, 38, a construction worker from China’s central Henan Province(Ê≤≥ÂçóÔºâ, said he has been living in […]

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Maybe North Korea’s decision to test a nuclear bomb makes perfect sense – George Wehrfritz

From Newsweek: ……Shen DingliÔºàÊ≤à‰∏ÅÁ´ãÔºâ, a political scientist at Shanghai’s Fudan University(‰∏äʵ∑§çÊó¶Â§ßÂ≠¶ÔºâChina’s best known arms-control experts, writes that, for Pyongyang, “the advantages of conducting a nuclear test outweigh the disadvantages; hence it will proceed with a nuclear test.” His analysis, posted online at the Nautilus Institute, a Berkeley, Calif., geopolitical think tank (www.nautilus.org), asserts that North […]

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Chinese Classic Captivates California Audiences – Mike O’Sullivan

From VOA: Listen to O’Sullivan report Download file A classic love story from China has been captivating California audiences. The U.S. production of the opera “The Peony Pavilion” is a collaboration between a Taiwanese literary scholar and performers from Jiangsu Province, China. The Peony Pavilion is probably the most famous play written for the Kunju […]

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The dry facts – Jonathan Watts

From The Guardian Some economic booms grind to a halt, others run out of steam, but in China the biggest risk is that growth will dry up. Water, the country’s scarcest resource, is running out. Pollution, waste and over-exploitation have combined with the expansion of mega-cities to foul up wells and suck rivers dry. Signs […]

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Legislation urged to ban gender selection – China Daily

From China Daily: A population expert has called on lawmakers to make it a criminal offence to identify the sex of an embryo for non-medical purposes and also to outlaw abortions that are not medically justified. Wei Jinsheng, a researcher with the China Population and Development Research CentreÔºà‰∏≠ÂõΩ‰∫∫Âè£Âèë±ïÁ†îÁ©∂‰∏≠ÂøÉÔºâ, said in an article published in the […]

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