Sensitive: Guo Yushan Picks Quarrels, HK, More
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Censorship Lawsuit Against Baidu and China Dismissed
A Manhattan judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by eight New York-based writers and video producers against Baidu and China itself in 2011. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ruled that the defendants have not been and likely...
Lunch with Chen Guangcheng
The Financial Times’ Jamil Anderlini has pizza with Chen Guangcheng and discusses food in New York, house arrest in Dongshigu, and Chen’s plans to return to China. […] Before we start eating, he asks if he can hold...
An Architect’s Vision: Bare Elegance in China
The New York Times’ Jane Perlez profiles architect Wang Shu, whose selection as China’s first Pritzker Prize winner in February received a somewhat mixed reaction from some of his countrymen. In awarding this year’s...
Chen Guangcheng on Disability & Human Rights
On WNYC and PRI’s The Takeaway, blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng discusses disability as “a mirror to society”, the importance of proactive defence of one’s own rights, and his continued determination...
Chen Guangcheng’s Next Steps
A month on from Chen Guangcheng’s arrival in New York, The Washington Post’s William Wan reports on his life and studies in the US. Five times a week, under the guidance of an English tutor at New York University’s...
Ai Weiwei: “I Am Fighting Someone I Will Never Know”
In one of a number of recent interviews, Ai Weiwei talks to The Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore about his childhood, fatherhood, why he is determined to stay in China, and an encounter with plain-clothed policemen in a local...
Chen Guangcheng Begins Life in New York
At The Daily Beast, Melinda Liu described the beginning of Chen Guangcheng and his family’s life in New York as they embraced the spring sunshine while avoiding, for now, the glare of the media. Feeling the warm sun on his...
Chen Guangcheng Speaks from New York
Chen Guangcheng, who arrived in New York on Saturday, greeted a cheering crowd outside New York University with a short speech. From NTDTV, via Shanghaiist: From the Associated Press: “I believe that no matter how...
Why Occupy Wall Street Would Have Never Happened in China
As the Occupy Wall Street protests gain momentum, the Global Times spoke with Los Angeles-based journalist Nomi Prins and Peking University professor Wang Yizhou about the movement’s goals, its likely impact and the...
"US Media Blackout of Protest Is Shameful"
Deputy editor of China Daily USA Chen Weihua accused US media of failing to give adequate coverage to the Occupy Wall Street protests in an editorial on Friday: As a journalist, I have wondered why the so-called mainstream US...
Beijing: Constant Nightmare, China's Most Liveable City, or Capital of the Future?
An ongoing series at The Economist’s More Intelligent Life site searches for a new global capital, with a particular focus on London, New York, Washington DC, Beijing, Delhi and Singapore. As noted in ‘Beijing:...
Beijing: Capital of the World?
The Economist’s moreintelligentlife.com wonders whether, were the host city for the UN headquarters to be chosen today, a Chinese city might win out. When politicians were debating where to put the headquarters of the new...
Arrested Chinese Blackjack Guru Ai WeiWei Also an Artist and Activist
The recent detention of blackjack master Ai Weiwei has uncovered his secret life as an artist and activist. From BlackjackChamp.com: Vinnie, who prefers to be called ‘Snake Eyes’ is a troglodyte faced mountain of...
In Chinatown, Sound of the Future Is Mandarin
The New York Times reports from New York Chinatown on the switch away from Cantonese to Mandarin as the dominant language: With Mandarin’s ascent has come a realignment of power in Chinese-American communities, where the recent...
Cities of the Future
On China Beat, Anna Greenspan reviews an exhibit at New York’s Skyscraper Museum about Shanghai: The most fascinating aspect of the current exhibit on Shanghai, however, is the show’s framing thesis. China Prophecy:...
China Construction Bank Opens First Branch in US
From china.org.cn: China Construction Bank Corporation (CCB), the world’s second largest bank by market value, opened its New York branch on Friday. The New York branch, CCB’s first branch in the United States,...
Update: Liu Xiang Misses Race With Tight Hamstring
From Sports Illustrated: Chinese track and field athlete Liu Xiang was scheduled to compete in this Saturday’s Reebok Grand Prix event in New York. Liu had to drop out of the event due to a tight hamstring but appeared...
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