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Beijing Coma by Ma Jian

by Shyam K. Sriram

[23.Oct.09] :. This book should be essential reading to students in Iran and across the world who need a manual on student activism.

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Mamer: Eagle

by Deanne Sole

[25.Jun.09] :. Mamer demystifies the experience of Chinese Central Asian music and keeps the beauty of the sound.

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China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.May.09] :. At once intimate and devastating, China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province insists on tight framing of grieving faces.

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Taboo removal: In China, tattoos make a comeback

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[9.Apr.09] :. BEIJING - While getting a tattoo in Mandarin characters may be all the rage among some Westerners, particularly basketball stars, in the ink parlors in this part of the world some of the panache goes...

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China blocks YouTube videos

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[25.Mar.09] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - China, which has previously shut down video traffic on YouTube’s network without explanation, did so again Tuesday, according to Google. “We don’t know the...

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The golden question: Was sending Olympics to China the right thing?

by Jack Chang [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Aug.08] :. BEIJING—The venues were great, the competition was exciting and no major international incident stained the Olympic Games that concluded here Sunday. Yet was that enough to call these games a...

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China has a golden Games, but when the world leaves questions will linger

by Linda Robertson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[23.Aug.08] :. BEIJING - Seven years ago, when Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games, China set out to sow gold, following the old proverb that says, “To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of...

 

These Games were unprecedented – but what was real and what was illusion?

by Joe Posnanski [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[23.Aug.08] :. BEIJING - There’s a famous Chinese saying, first spoken by the old revolutionary Deng Xiaoping, that people here repeat all the time. It goes like this: “Whether the cat is black or white...

 

Fakery in Games makes plain China’s contempt for reality

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Aug.08] :. Time to clear the air: That’s not smog hovering over Beijing, swallowing entire office buildings like a mighty python. It’s just “a funny mist,” says the city’s...

 

This country is crazy about table tennis

by Joe Posnanski [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[15.Aug.08] :. BEIJING—Historians have long marveled that the relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic China really began to defrost because of table tennis. Well, heck, why not?...

 

With a bit of blue sky and fakery, China sees games as clear success so far

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[15.Aug.08] :. BEIJING—A week into the Summer Games, athletes brim with praise for the Olympics venues, rain has mercifully cleared the skies of smog and China beams at its success even as it deflects charges...

 

Chinese police rough up British TV reporter

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[13.Aug.08] :. BEIJING - Police in Beijing dragged away and roughed up a British television journalist Wednesday as he observed a group of foreigners holding a demonstration for Tibet less than half a mile from the...

 

China sees Olympic gold in coverage

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[8.Aug.08] :. NBC’s sports biggies held a satellite news conference from Beijing with TV critics last month, and Bob Costas talked about the complicated anticipation for the Olympic Games that open Aug....

 

Olympics will be way for China to show off its economic success to world

by Rick Montgomery [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[5.Aug.08] :. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Visiting Beijing last year, U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps likened it to “a big American city” with 7-Elevens, Subway sandwiches, Sizzlers, Starbucks and...

 

Sa Dingding: Alive

by Deanne Sole

[28.Jul.08] :. Alive is exploratory yet ultimately gentle. It's more daring than most of China's mainstream croon-pop, but similarly unwilling to strike out at its audience.

 

Arrest is another sign that China is quashing dissent before Olympics

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Apr.08] :. BEIJING - Like many patriotic Chinese, Hu Jia broke into tears when Beijing lost out to Sydney, Australia, for the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games, and was elated a year later when the city...

 

China, Olympics, human rights and NBC: It’ll be a rocky square

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[2.Apr.08] :. The Summer Olympics are still four months away, but we’re already getting a look at the kind of messy scene the world could see in China when the Games begin in August. We’re also...

 

Brand New China by Jing Wang

by Rachel Smucker

[5.Mar.08] :. Written like a college textbook and packaged like a novel, this book blurs the line between storytelling and statistical analysis, making for an interesting, complex read.

 

Martin Atkins China Dub Soundsystem: Made in China

by Deanne Sole

[21.Dec.07] :. In effect, Pigface has changed continents and absorbed a few dozen new members.

 

Various: Add to Friends

by Deanne Sole

[5.Oct.07] :. Like a sweet little ant that you don't want to step on.

 

Retracing steps offers glimpse of a China torn between comfort and struggle

by Evan Osnos [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[2.Oct.07] :. YIBIN, China - Kindergartners in inline skates wobbled along the concrete edge of the Yangtze. Well-dressed parents fussed behind them, within sight of but decades away from the docks and squalor...

 

An odyssey into the heart of China

by Evan Osnos [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[18.Sep.07] :. CHONGQING, China—A damp rat lumbered into the darkness beneath a bed that rents for 24 cents a night. Cobwebs and wires dangled overhead. The air was tangy with sweat and pepper oil. Burrowing...

 

Chinese censors take aim at foreign movies

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Sep.07] :. BEIJING—It’s just a 10-second scene in the movie The Pursuit of Happyness, the Will Smith flick about a struggling single father and his rise to success. Smith’s character...

 

China prepares to welcome world to 2008 Olympics

by John Boudreau [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[21.Aug.07] :. BEIJING—Hosting the Summer Olympics is a coup for any country, but China regards the 2008 Beijing Games as nothing short of a historic marker of its return to glory. The Olympics is giving the...

 

Peony in Love: A Novel by Lisa See

by Catherine Mallette [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Aug.07] :. Lisa See's Peony in Love about a lovelorn maiden disappoints as a novel but is a fascinating window on historical China.

 

The United States and Central America: Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility by Mark Rosenbe

by Alejandra Labanca [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Jul.07] :. Scholar says the cycle of neglect that marks U.S. policy toward Central America isn't likely to be broken soon.

 

Peony in Love: A Novel by Lisa See

by Allen Pierleoni [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[25.Jul.07] :. Peony brings to life the heartache of women in 17th century China.

 

Chasing dot-com dream in China

by Evan Osnos [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[11.Jul.07] :. BEIJING—In the office after hours, the Chinese economic miracle didn’t feel much like magic. Spent cups of instant noodles lay in the trash can. Cubicles were empty for the night. Among...

 

TRAVELOGUE: Beijing’s Olympic bubble

by Chris Welsch [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[10.Jul.07] :. Wang Hai Xia, who knows Beijing pretty well, had to ask directions twice to find the Dashanzi Art District in an industrial area outside the city’s third ring road. It didn’t look like...

 

A world-class district for Beijing art - if not its artists

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[2.Jul.07] :. BEIJING - A gritty, moribund industrial zone of Beijing has come alive as China’s premier center of contemporary art and culture, its galleries and restaurants drawing comparisons to bohemian...

 

China Ghosts: My Daughters Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood by Jeff Gammage

by Huntly Collins [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[27.Jun.07] :. Gammage's beautifully written memoir, which weaves together emotionally wrenching narrative with insightful social commentary, will resonate with any American who has taken the same journey.

 

Shadow hangs over China’s boom

by John Boudreau [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[25.Jun.07] :. BEIJING - A pale orange sun hangs low over the evening rush hour, a brake-light procession of Mercedes, matchbox-size taxis and accordion-style buses that cuts through a canyon of skyscraper...