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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
So begins A Tale of Two Cities, with one of the most celebrated opening lines in literature. What’s often forgotten is how the sentence ends. (It is, to be fair, an extremely long sentence.) Written in 1859, Continue reading
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Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer is a poet of great Continue reading
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Chinese director Zhang Yimou Le Vision Pictures
Zhang Yimou, China’s most prolific and internationally acclaimed director, Continue reading
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Michael Rank
As I was researching Nineteen Eighty-four in Chinese, I wondered whether Orwell ever wrote about China. His interest in India, where he was born in 1903, is well known, and he served in the Burma Continue reading
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It’s easy to think Chinese political art stops at Ai Weiwei, the embattled provocateur who is arguably the art world’s most famous living figure. Continue reading
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KAISER KUO, JEREMY GOLDKORN, DAVID MOSER 06.06.14
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Christina Yu Yu
USC is hiring Christina Yu Yu, a curator of Asian Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Continue reading
August and technophobic literary journal released a barrage of reminders of agency’s controversial interrogation techniques
Lauren Gambino in New York
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CIA central intelligence agency. Continue reading
