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Revisiting the End of Zero-Covid

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Published: March 10, 2025 14:56

New on the site this time:Gan Ye, a young journalist working with Singapore-based Initium to produce a poignant piece on how ordinary Chinese people deal with the grief and anger produced by the many, many deaths that followed the end of China’s zero-covid…

China 2025

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Published: January 22, 2025 16:52

New on the site this time:Three new texts, all on China’s mood as 2025 dawns.  All are bleak.Sun Liping. “The Two Things People Are Most Worried About, Which Can Also Count as a Belated New Year's Wish” notes that everyone in China is stressed out, because…

Xiao Gongqin on Trump 2.0

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Published: November 18, 2024 19:34

New on the site this time:Only one piece, unsurprisingly on Trump's re-election:Xiao Gongqin, "As Trump Assumes Power, How Will China Respond to the Challenge?"Personally, Trump's victory has me flirting with a vow of silence, so I will stop…

It's the economy, stupid!

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Published: October 23, 2024 11:42

New on the site this time:​Two pieces on the Chinese economy, both sparked by the massive intervention of China’s central bank into the Chinese stock market on September 24, the effects of which are being followed by China-watchers everywhere.  I was in…

Censorship in China:  Part Three

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Published: September 30, 2024 21:53

New on the site this time:Only one of my translations - Xu Jilin’s brief comments on the American election. In “What is the Meaning of Taylor Swift's 100 Million Dollar Ragdoll Cat?”  Xu argues that Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris will swing…

Reading Alice Munro in China

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Published: August 26, 2024 12:35

New on the site this time, a Chinese feminist reflection on the late Alice Munro's fall from grace, following revelations that Munro learned that her second husband had sexually abused her daughter from a previous marriage a decade or so after the fact,…

Censorship in China, Part 2

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Published: August 12, 2024 13:26

New on the site this time:A continuing collaboration with GreatFire on Reading and Writing under Censorship in China.  GreatFire is an anonymous and award-winning China-based organization that works to bring transparency to online censorship and to help…

Xiang Biao on the Student Protests

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Published: July 29, 2024 13:35

New on the site this time, “Xiang Biao Talks about the Worldwide Student Movement, the Crisis of the Liberal Order, the Nearby and ‘Global Grassroots,’” an example of how one Chinese scholar – who works in Germany – has experienced and understood the…

Censorship in China

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Published: June 3, 2024 12:23

​New on the site this time: A collaboration with GreatFire on Reading and Writing under Censorship in China.  GreatFire is an anonymous and award-winning China-based organization that works to bring transparency to online censorship and to help Chinese…

Yang Ping and the Beijing Cultural Review

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Published: April 3, 2024 06:06

​New on the site this time, an interview with Yang Ping, editor of the Beijing Cultural Review, arguably contemporary China’s most important intellectual review – Yang himself has compared his journal to The Atlantic.  The interview is a fascinating…