Candy for the Eternally Spotless Mind Now Banned in China

5:46 am HKT May 22, 2014

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Sure, maybe you’ve tried Willy Wonka’s Gobstoppers. But have you tried “regret medicine”? Associated Press

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Foreigner rides a train in China

I maintain that the best way to travel in a foreign country (or between foreign countries) is by train. I have ridden in trains across Europe and trains down the Nile. I am currently fantasizing about saving up and taking trains across India. Continue reading

The 2014 Democracy Award: Imprisoned Chinese activists Liu Xiabo and Xu Zhiyong honored for their work with the 2014 Democracy awards

MAY 29, 2014

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China detains some 50 dissidents ahead of 1989 Tiananmen Square anniversary

 

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(TibetanReview.net, May21, 2014) – China has arrested, detained or held away from home against their will some 50 dissidents since early this month ahead of the anniversary of the Jun 3-4, 1989 Tiananmen Square bloodbath, Continue reading

Ancient bamboo medical books uncovered in China belonged to legendary Bian Que

12 MAY, 2014 – 22:20 By April Holloway

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Last year, archaeologists unearthed 920 bamboo strips at a construction site in the south-western city of Chengdu in China, Continue reading

Why Many Young Chinese Women Are Writing Gay Male Erotica

By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW MAY 21, 2014 6:00 PM 

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Creating and consuming the erotic fiction known as danmei is a vehicle for young Chinese women to explore new identities.
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One Uighur Man’s Journey in Two Cultures

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A Uighur vendor pushes his cart of watermelons past Chinese soldiers on patrol in Urumqi in northwest China’s Xinjiang province on July 15, 2009. Security remained tight in Urumqi’s Muslim Uighur district 10 days after strong ethnic violence broke out on July 5 and riot police maintained their presence and kept control of the area’s main bazaar.

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Campaign to Smother Tiananmen Anniversary Continues

Rights lawyers Tang Jingling and Liu Shihui are among the latest to be detained as the government seeks to suppress commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown’s 25th anniversary next month. From AP’s Didi Tang:

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