Zhang Yimou on Failure, ‘House of Cards’ and ‘Coming Home’

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Chinese director Zhang Yimou Le Vision Pictures
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Orwell in China: Big Brother in every bookshop

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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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Five Chinese Dissident Artists Who Aren’t Ai Weiwei

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The Huffington Post | By Mallika Rao
Posted: 06/10/2014 9:21 am EDT Updated: 06/10/2014 10:59 am EDT
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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Renewed call for release of jailed Bahraini journalists

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9 June 2014

Renewed call for release of jailed Bahraini journalists before Human Rights Council’s 26th Session

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Join PEN at the London Short Story Festival

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Amnesty International UK:FREE LIU XIA

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Liu Xia, a poet, artist and human rights defender, has been under illegal house arrest in Beijing since 2010 – when her husband, Dr Liu Xiaobo, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Continue reading →

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‘Hard Choices’: A chapter-by-chapter breakdown of Clinton’s new book

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June 9 at 2:04 pm

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new book “Hard Choices” is a methodical march through the challenges she encountered as the nation’s secretary of state from 2009-2013. In Clinton’s description, Continue reading →

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Rice, Wheat, and Air Filters

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KAISER KUO, JEREMY GOLDKORN, DAVID MOSER 06.06.14


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