Nobel-winning author Mo Yan delivered his official lecture in Stockholm on Friday, recounting his development as a storyteller through tales of his rural upbringing and especially of his relationship with his mother. The...
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Shi Shusi, director of the editorial board for the Worker’s Daily weekly magazine, piqued his...
Read MoreAt China Real Time Report, Berkeley law professor Stanley Lubman reviews In the Name of Justice: Striving for the Rule of Law in China by legal scholar He Weifang. The book contains articles and lectures on judicial...
Read MoreLate last month, premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang declared that boosting the country’s urban population, which passed 50% of the total a year ago, was China’s most promising avenue for further development. From Caijing:...
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Read MoreFor his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab comments on Nobel laureate Mo Yan. Some critics have lambasted Mo Yan’s close relationship to the Communist Party and his failure to speak up...
Read MoreAt an investor conference on Wednesday, Starbucks executives said they expect China to become the company’s largest market outside the United States by 2014, as the coffee retail giant has maintained robust sales growth...
Read MoreFor The Diplomat, Ketty Chen and Julia Famularo call out the administration of Taiwanese president Ma Ying-Jeou for denying the Dalai Lama a visa to attend a recent conference held in Taipei by women’s group BPW...
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Read MoreScholar and editor of Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine Wu Si recently outlined restrictions on freedom of expression in China as he sees them. He describes five different levels, using the image of square meters to measure the media...
Read MoreLiu Xia, wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, has given her first interview in 26 months, less than a week before the 2012 Nobel ceremony next Monday. Liu Xia has been under house arrest since the announcement...
Read MoreEnvironmentalist author and former official Liu Futang was sentenced on Wednesday following his trial in October for publishing without a license. The court rejected Liu’s argument that he had not sought to make a profit...
Read MoreChina’s new Party leadership has vowed to reject “extravagance, formalism and bureaucracy” in government—or, as The Financial Times put it, to let a hundred flowers wilt. Xinhua recounted the long list of...
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