5/27/2005
In China’s Mao years you could be detained and persecuted for talking with your neighbor about your cat. The Chinese word for “cat” (mao, high level tone) is a near-homonym for the name of the Great Leader (mao, rising tone), and a tip to the police from an eavesdropper who misheard one for the other and took you to be disrespectful could ruin your life. Continue reading
IAN JOHNSON 05.08.14
Staff stand on a fishing vessel in Danzhou, Hainan province, setting sail for the Spratly Islands, an archipelago disputed between China and other countries.
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MAY 21, 2014
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The announcement, on Tuesday, that the United States has charged five members of the Chinese military with economic espionage—for hacking the computers of American companies—is an Continue reading
“THE BIG BANG THEORY” AND OUR FUTURE WITH CHINA已关闭评论
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By Jose Pagliery @Jose_Pagliery May 20, 2014: 12:03 PM ET
Two years after Microsoft executives unveiled Windows 8 in China, the government is banning the operating system on state computers.
China has blacklisted Microsoft Windows 8, Continue reading
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5:46 am HKT May 22, 2014
Sure, maybe you’ve tried Willy Wonka’s Gobstoppers. But have you tried “regret medicine”? Associated Press
12 MAY, 2014 – 22:20 By April Holloway
Last year, archaeologists unearthed 920 bamboo strips at a construction site in the south-western city of Chengdu in China, Continue reading
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Howard W. French, a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, has spent years reporting about the massive migration of Chinese people to Africa. Alfred A. Knopf has just published the results of his work: China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in China. French, who has served as the bureau chief in Japan, China, West and Central Africa, and the Caribbean for The New York Times, spoke with Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute about his new book.
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BY ELIAS GROLL MAY 15, 2014 – 07:02 PM
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson didn’t leave the paper on her own terms. In a reportedly awkward newsroom meeting on Wednesday — from which Abramson was conspicuously absent — the paper’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, announced her departure and the elevation of the paper’s number two, Dean Baquet, into its top editing role.
