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Ian Johnson’s short profile of an interesting character in China for the New York Review of Books. Johnson described his piece this way:
Something postiive and unusual about China: you can actually make a buck selling books here. A small profile of Chinese poetry translator Bill Porter (Red Pine), who’s a mini-celebrity in China as a guru on China’s own culture. A bizarre story for a guy who was once on food stamps.
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Virtually connect with Chinese Characters contributor Xujun Eberlein from June 1 to June 3 where she will discuss her life as a journalist and storyteller and her collection Apologies Forthcoming.
‘It’s not a real fruit stand. They’re pretending to sell watermelons so they can spy on people coming in and out of the village,’ said a 44-year-old farmer surnamed Sun from a village across the road.
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Chinese Characters contributor Ananth Krishnan reports for The Hindu
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The first requirement of the job is that you must be an advanced Mandarin Chinese speaker, since the meetings will all be with Chinese people. Also men only, no females. The other requirement is that you must have some sort of background that Chinese people typically value.
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1950 Communist Propaganda Comic Predicts China 60 Years Later, reproduced, translated, explained at chinaSMACK
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‘When I first came here two years ago, this area was just a bunch of fields covered with construction cranes,’ said Gillen, who is 32. Now the farmlands outside Harbin have been transformed into one of the dozens of insta-cities rising around China. ‘Standing here,’ Gillen said,
‘you just have to be in awe of what China can accomplish.’
