Video: TV Watchlist of a Generation

As China’s first post-reform generation reaches adulthood, “Born in the 70s” nostalgia continues to spread. The latest example is this series of video clips recalling the cartoons and TV dramas of the early...

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Waving Goodbye to Hegemony

The cover article on the New York Times Magazine argues that an American superpower is being replaced by “The Big Three” – composed of the U.S., Europe and China: At best, America’s unipolar moment lasted...

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Video: Please Vote for Me

PLEASE VOTE FOR ME, an award-winning documentary directed by Weijun Chen, takes a closer look at an interesting social experiment with democracy in China. Below is the video introduction from Youtube: In an elementary school in...

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India Recognizes Top Chinese Scholar

Ji Xianlin, the “guru of all Indologists in China,” according to the Times of India, was awarded one of India’s highest honors, the Padma Bhushan. The decision to honour widely-respected Indologist Ji Xianlin,...

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Mao’s Urbane English Tutor Dies

Zhang Hanzhi, the diplomat who, as a young teacher, tutored a 70-year-old Chairman Mao in English for a few months in 1964, has died at age 73. According to Reuters, her death ends “an eventful life that began as an...

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A Net Campaign for the Parents of Slaves

On Global Voices, Bob Chen reminds us that the families of brick kiln slave workers are still desperately searching for their lost children, despite the lack of prolonged media or government interest in helping: According to the...

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Maid in China, a Bourgeois Dilemma

The Telegraph reports on how middle class Chinese cope when their ayis go home to celebrate Spring Festival: The demand for live-in maids has soared in recent years among the newly affluent middle classes in China’s...

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The China Factor – Min Zin

From The Bangkok Post : Sunday Perspective: A few weeks after the protests last year in Burma, a Chinese diplomat approached an influential Burmese advocate in New York and asked why the Burmese dubbed their protest the...

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China Targets Plastic Bags

The Los Angeles Times follows up on the recently announced ban on plastic shopping bags: If China can pull off the bag ban with its 1.3 billion people, it will set an example for the rest of the world, improving its negative...

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‘It Is A Difficult Relationship’

Outlook, the Indian news magazine, interviews Michael Yahuda about India-China relations: On how he sees the India-China equation at this present juncture: It is a difficult relationship. They are both great powers. China has in...

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