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2012-05 Friday

Rare Earth

Rare Earth

Rare Earthis incredible fun, a wild romp through Ningxia and Inner Mongolia in the company of a scurrilous English jour...

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2012-04 Sunday

Brave Dragons

Brave Dragons

Cultures collide on the basketball court The Shanxi Brave Dragons CBA basketball team have been in the news recently. No...

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2012-03 Thursday

'China In Ten Words' By Yu Hua

'China In Ten Words' By Yu Hua

Defining a country with a handful of concepts How do you write about modern China? Its size and complexity, its contradi...

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2012-02 Wednesday

Dickens In China

Dickens In China

How the inimitable author conquered the Chinese mind and heart “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it ...

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2011-12 Friday

Deng Xiaoping And The Transformation of China

Deng Xiaoping And The Transformation of China

Ezra F. Vogel’s thorough examination into one of China’s most influential figures Ezra Vogel’s exhaustively researched b...

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2011-12 Thursday

Lisa See's Success

Lisa See's Success

Chinese-American author on her ability to capture the imagination Lisa See has received an incredible surge in popularit...

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2011-10 Monday

The Opium War By Julia Lovell

The Opium War By Julia Lovell

China’s present through the lens of the last The Opium War never figured very highly in Western historical consciousness...

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2011-09 Tuesday

Getting Out Of Town

Getting Out Of Town

Shenzhen Hikes Vol. 1: Dapeng Peninsula Shenzhen Hikes was compiled by Italian expatriate Marco Loglio and actually focu...

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2011-08 Monday

Unnatural Selection

Unnatural Selection

Mara Hvistendahl investigates the consequences of gender imbalance in a startling new book You probably know China’s gen...

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2011-08 Thursday

A Point Of View

A Point Of View

%Dr. Bernhard Wessling, known affectionately as Lao Wei (老卫) to his Chinese friends, relocated to China in 2005 to take di...

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