Schwarzenegger Talks to Chinese Students – Beth Fouhy
From the AP, via the Los Angeles Times: In a speech evoking bodybuilding, civil rights icon Rosa Parks and the power of the individual, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged a university audience in China...
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Chinese Slough Off Old Barriers to Divorce – Maureen Fan
From the Washington Post: Divorce, once nearly unheard of in China, has become more common than ever as women such as Wu gain financial independence and shrug off the diminishing stigma of leaving...
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Socialism is Great!: Growing Up Headstrong in 1980s China
The New York Times reviews a new book by Zhang Lijia: Lijia Zhang is a child of the 1980s. In “Socialism is Great!“, her coming-of-age memoir, that decade is to her what the 1960s were to American baby...
View ArticleVishakha N. Desai: China’s Dilemma: Balancing the Individual and the...
Vishakha N. Desai, president of the Asia Society, writes in Lebanon’s Daily Star (via Project Syndicate): On August 8, 2008, the world watched with awe the amazing spectacle of the Olympics opening...
View ArticleEast Meets West: How the Brain Unites Us All
Ed Yong at the New Scientist discusses the conventional notions of an ‘individualist, analyitical’ Western psychology and a ‘collectivist, holistic’ Eastern one, and how a recent psychological...
View ArticlePeter Hessler: Travels with My Censor
Recounting the experience of publishing his books in China, Peter Hessler describes shifts in political acceptability over the years, and his censor’s efforts to bring foreign books to Chinese readers...
View ArticleTranslation: Wei Zhou on “Empathy for Authority”
Wei Zhou is a rare voice in the world of WeChat public accounts, keeping his critiques of contemporary Chinese society just vague enough to stave off censorship (most of the time), yet relevant enough...
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