May 2012
42 posts
China: Up Close, Personal, in Flux →
Showcases compelling black-and-white shots of life Changsha, mostly capturing individuals and small groups in ordinary and sometimes unexpected settings, by documentary photographer Rian Dundon.
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Ma Jian on Chinese Dissident Literature →
Chinese Characters contributor Alec Ash interviews the London-based author about five books from China that critique the state.
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“There is a radical difference, however, between my Shanghai sojourns and...”
– In Chinese Characters co-editor Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Willima Gibson’s Distrust that Particular Flavor for the Los Angeles Review of Books: The Future Is A Different Country
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“The story of a blind Chinese lawyer’s flight to the US Embassy in Beijing is...”
– Ian Johnson’s wise words in Debacle in Beijing for The New York Review of Books
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Motives and Motifs in the Curious Case of Bo Xilai →
Chinese Characters co-editor Jeffrey Wasserstrom in the LA Review of Books Blog
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“Yet, in expanding coal-industry bases in west China, one crucial challenge has...”
– China’s Looming Conflict Between Energy and Water by Christina Larson for Yale 360.
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April 2012
29 posts
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Diary of an AIDS activist →
Cheng Xiangyang speaks to Chinese Characters contributor Alec Ash in Beijing for the Anthill
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Latest Twists in Bo Xilai Story →
Analysis of wire-tapping allegations; includes quotes from an interview with CC co-editor Jeff Wasserstrom; talk of Bo wire-tapping other Chinese leaders first appeared in a New York Times story by Jonathan Ansfield and CC contributor Ian Johnson.
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PODCAST: China, Apple Factories, Suicide, and Big...
In the Los Angeles Review of Books:
Rob Schmitz is the Shanghai bureau chief for American Public Media’s Marketplace. He broke the story about Mike Daisey, showing that Daisey’s reporting on Chinese factory workers for This American Life was full of fabrication. He talks here with Angilee Shah about that story, about reporting in China, and about the problems trying to understand the...
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Chongqing Dispatch: Wang Lijun's Planned Police... →
Chinese Characters contributor Xujun Eberlein makes connections between her April trip to Chongqing and the former police chief who worked under Bo Xilai.
In China, Blame for the USC Victims →
Journalist Mei Fong, writing in the Los Angeles Times, on how differently a story can play out on opposite sides of the Pacific.
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Bo Xilai Said to Have Spied on Top China Officials →
An investigation by Jonathan Ansfield and Chinese Characters contributor Ian Johnson for The New York Times
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“When Gloria Steinem said, in the 1970s, ‘We’re becoming the men we...”
– 30-year-old Annie Xu told Chinese Characters contributor Christina Larson for her report The Startling Plight of China’s Leftover Ladies in Foreign Policy 