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19
Feb
Sequencing a complete human genome may soon cost less than an iPhone. Will China’s BGI-Shenzhen decode yours? Christina Larson reports for MIT Technology Review.
16
Feb
One 25-year-old woman in Guangzhou, who has just recently started dating her first serious boyfriend, a colleague in a different department at work, said her beau may not be the most exciting or attractive, but more important: ‘He is very intelligent and disciplined, which I like. I think we can have a comfortable life together.’
Christina Larson reports on love in the PRC for Bloomberg Businessweek
07
Nov
Christina Larson reports on environmental protests in Ningbo for Bloomberg Businessweek.
17
Oct
Christina Larson reports for Businessweek:
In 2011, Changsha’s economy grew 14.5 percent, nearly twice the national rate, and McKinsey predicts its gross domestic product will triple between 2010 and 2025. Changsha has boosted its economy in part by turning itself into a star-making destination for celebrities. The hometown network, colloquially known as Hunan TV, is responsible for launching the wildly popular American Idol-like audition shows Chao Ji Nu Sheng (Super Girl) and Kuai Le Nan Sheng (Super Boy). Last year it was the top-rated provincial network in China, trailing in viewership only behind national behemoth CCTV.
01
Oct
Sinica: An evening at the Beijing Bookworm
Jeremy Goldkorn hosts Chinese Characters contributors Ian Johnson and Christina Larson in a discussion about the book and what Johnson calls “the rise of the individual in China.” The discussion was hosted live at the Beijing Bookworm on Sept. 13, 2012.
04
Sep
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University will host Chinese Characters contributor Christina Larson and editor Jeffrey Wasserstrom
29
Aug
At The Bookworm bookstore: Though China is currently in the global spotlight, few outside its borders have a feel for the tremendous diversity of the lives being led inside the country. Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land is a collection of compelling stories challenges oversimplified views of China by shifting the focus away from the question of China’s place in the global order and zeroing in on what is happening on the ground. The collection includes profiles of people who defy stereotype - an artist who copies classical paintings for export to tourist markets, Xi’an migrant workers who make a living recycling trash in the city dumps, a Taoist mystic, an entrepreneur hoping to strike it rich in the rental car business, an old woman about to lose her home in Beijing, and a crusading legal scholar – written by some of the most talented and respected journalists and scholars writing about China today. Join us to celebrate the publication of this new collection and hear from contributors Ian Johnson (Wild Grass), Christina Larson (Foreign Policy), Evan Osnos (The New Yorker) and Ananth Krishnan (The Hindu) on the profiles they contributed.
20/30rmb, 7:30pm
Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road,
Chaoyang District, Beijing
100027, P.R China
27
Aug
In Mongolia, U.S. scientists are studying climate clues in ancient tree rings to help answer a crucial question: How will global warming affect Asia’s monsoon rains, which supply water for agriculture and drinking to half the world’s population?
Read the full story by Christina Larson in Yale Environment 360.
26
Aug
Christina Larson writes about the growing numbers of educated and financially independent women who delay (sometimes indefinitely) marriage for Businessweek
16
Aug
Chinese Characters contributor Christina Larson writes, “China’s fast-growing megacities — 43 cities of one-million-plus today, and a projected 221 by 2025 — may at first blush look homogenous and interchangeable, but of course a metropolis is more than a collection of buildings, and foundations aren’t only poured in concrete.” In this piece for Foreign Policy, she visits Guangzhou, Urumqi and Shenyang.
