Duplitecture: China’s White Houses
At 99% Invisible, Roman Mars, Avery Trufelman and Bianca Bosker look at the phenomenon of...
Jul 29, 2014
At 99% Invisible, Roman Mars, Avery Trufelman and Bianca Bosker look at the phenomenon of...
Feb 26, 2014
While few negative repercussions are anticipated from last week’s meeting between Barack...
Feb 21, 2014
The White House has issued a statement on Friday’s low-key meeting between President Obama...
Feb 20, 2014
President Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday, two days after a senior...
Jul 1, 2013
China’s official online petition platform had a rough first day on Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report, which notes that the web site “triggered mockery across China’s social...
May 14, 2013
Chinese netizens have recently discovered the public petition system on the White House website, and several petitions created by Chinese citizens have gone viral, notably one calling for an investigation of a 1994 poisoning...
May 7, 2013
The recent poisoning death of Huang Yang, a graduate student at Fudan University in Shanghai, has triggered inquiries among netizens over the unsolved 1994 poisoning of Zhu Ling, then an undergraduate at Tsinghua University....
Apr 29, 2013
At China Real Time, Josh Chin looks at Chinese netizens’ mixed reactions to president Obama’s performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. To be sure, some of Mr. Obama’s jokes managed to...
May 22, 2012
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...
Mar 18, 2012
China’s Central Propaganda Department warned domestic media not to hype gourmet food served at the recent Two Sessions, hoping to avoid stoking resentment over the country’s growing wealth gap. Bloomberg’s...
Jul 15, 2011
The Associated Press reports that Barack Obama has invited the visiting Dalai Lama to the White House. Employing a low-key approach, the White House has set the meeting in the White House Map Room, not the Oval Office, which is...
Sep 4, 2009
China Daily reported that the Chinese flag was to be hoisted on the White House lawn as part of a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the PRC: The national flag of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at...