June 2012
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ListenDavid Moser hosts Jeffrey Wasserstrom and students...
Jun 1st
May 2012
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Goodreads Q&A with author Xujun Eberlein starts...
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.
May 31st
“‘It’s not a real fruit stand. They’re pretending to sell...”
– Barbara Demick reports for the Los Angeles Times: Chen Guangcheng is gone, but China keeps his village locked down
May 31st
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Two Tibetans burn themselves as fiery protest... →
Chinese Characters contributor Ananth Krishnan reports for The Hindu
May 30th
“The first requirement of the job is that you must be an advanced Mandarin...”
– From an inquiry for a part-time job for “some Americans to assist in meetings”: Chinese business looking for a few good Jews in Foreign Policy Passport.
May 29th
May 28th
“‘When I first came here two years ago, this area was just a bunch of...”
– Daniel Gillen, an American architect in northeastern China, quotes by Brook Larmer in The New York Times: Architects in China, Building the American Dream
May 27th
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May 26th
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“Youth in China are doing more than just buying brands and downloading free...”
– A response in Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s Q&A with All Eyes East author Mary Bergstrom: What Makes Chinese Youth Tick?
May 26th
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“With a wide smile and deep baritone chorus all the stresses of his week and year...”
– Photographer Rian Dundon introduces a KTV in Changsha: Photographs for China Beat, a small taste of his forthcoming book.
May 25th
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A Chinese Murder Mystery? →
Chinese Characters contributor Ian Johnson in The New York Review of Books
May 25th
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May 24th
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“Around 1,000 monks and nuns in monasteries in the Shannan prefecture of the...”
– From a report by Chinese Characters contributor Ananth Krishnan for The Hindu: Signature campaign in Tibet
May 24th
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Five Books on China  →
Chinese Characterscontributor Evan Osnos’ picks in the New Yorker blog Letter from China
May 23rd
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Shanghai, Bo Xilai and 5 China Noirs You Should... →
Jeff Wasserstrom for the Asia Society’s Asia Blog
May 23rd
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nybooks: ‘Worse Than the Cultural Revolution’: An Interview With Tian Qing Tian Qing may be China’s leading cultural heritage expert. A scholar of Buddhist musicology and the Chinese zither, or guqin, the sixty-four-year-old now heads the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, an institution set up by the government to protect China’s native traditions in the performing arts,...
May 22nd
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“So for the vast majority of the Chinese population, Facebook is the tech...”
– writes Evan Osnos for the New Yorker: In China, Facebook’s Shadow and Worries About Innovation
May 21st
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“Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the...”
– Said environmental watchdog Ma Jun, first in Fast Company’s list of 100 most creative people in business. Chinese Characters contributor Christina Larson profiled him for the magazine.
May 18th
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Retired Party Members Call for 2 Top Chinese... →
Chinese Characters contributor Ian Johnson reports for The New York Times
May 17th
Propaganda Against U.S. Ambassador Backfires →
Oiwan Lam in Global Voices has the social media roundup on Amb. Gary Locke after his handling of the Chen Guangcheng affair
May 16th