January 2012
20 posts
“A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories,...”
– Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com
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“For an outside audience that still sometimes sees the Chinese as the faceless masses, Wasserstrom and Shah have assembled a collection of faces and names and fascinating life stories of a range of Chinese people. The contributors are some of the best-known writers on China today, and from every layer of society and every walk of life, the Chinese characters they have portrayed give readers...
“In the midst of Wukan’s stand-off with the authorities in mid-December, Mr Lin...”
– Beijing appoints Wukan protest leader as official - FT.com
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“She said it was “ridiculous” that the daily rental for a Volkswagen...”
– In “Car rental firms in the driver’s seat” at China.org.cn, the author discusses a surge in car rentals in China. Contributor Megan Shank introduces us to the industry and one man trying to take a greater share of the market in her chapter of Chinese Characters.
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Notes from a Chinese Cave: Qigong’s Quiet Return →
CC contributor Ian Johnson goes on a ten-day retreat | NYRblog
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“‘China’ is the Leatherman-tool of rhetoric of this campaign:...”
– Evan Osnos post for the New Yorker.
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2 Chinese Characters contributors weigh in on Hu...
Jeff Wasserstrom does it here (with a nod to Jiang Zemin’s love of “Titanic”) and Evan Osnos does it here (with a nod back to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union).
“Victims of corruption and injustice have no faith in the law, and yet they dream...”
– Yu Hua’s latest op-ed, “In China, the Grievances Keep Coming.”
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Putting 2011 Protests (in China and Other Places)... →
“Havel belongs not only to Eastern Europe. He leaves a long record of moral...”
– Rowena Xiaoqing He’s “Reading Havel in Beijing” (Wall Street Journal)
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Han Han Finds a New Crowd to Irritate →
Evan Osnos on the latest writing of China’s outspoken novelist-race car driver-blogger.
December 2011
24 posts
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“People no longer believe you can win by working hard and honestly in China.”
– A struggling journalist in Beijing, as quoted by CC contributor Christina Larson in “The End of the Chinese Dream” (Foreign Policy)
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2011: Five Big China Stories (That Didn't Happen... →
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“The overall sense in western reports is that things are spinning out of control...”
– CC contributor Ian Johnson on the recent protests in Wukan, from his New York Review of Books blog post “Do China’s Village Protests Help the Regime?”
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Do China’s Village Protests Help the Regime? →
CC contributor Ian Johnson challenges foreign media’s take on protest in the NYRblog
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Q & A with a Thoughtful Journalist who has been in... →
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“China has, in recent months, been pressing North Korea to consider adopting a...”
– Another Chinese Characters contributor, Ananth Krishnan, weighs in on Kim’s death for The Hindu, focusing on NK leadership transition’s implications for and concerns in the PRC.
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“As Kim’s death came on the heels of Czech dissident leader and poet Vaclav...”
– From Christina Larson’s Foreign Policy blog post “Two Funerals, and Weibo.”
In rebellious Wukan, China, a rare sight: No... →
Report from Tom Lasseter (McClatchy) who “was able to slip into Wukan on Thursday night…with the help of a local who had detailed knowledge of winding routes that skirted police positions in roads outside the village.”
