Posts Tagged with ‘China’
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Soldiers Alive – A Novel of the Japanese in China, 1937
11 Jan 2019For century upon century, from the time of the stories of Gilgamesh (18th BCE), stories of war have been told…
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Xiao Hong — Women in Rural China
17 Apr 2015Some months ago I saw The Golden Era, a recent movie by Ann Hui about a ground breaking Chinese woman writer…
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry — An Artist, An Organizer, A Movie
13 Aug 2012Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is a documentary film that’s a three-fer. It will be interesting and instructive, even moving, to…
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“It’s Time,” a Poem by Zhu Yufu, Gets Him Seven Years
11 Feb 2012It’s time, people of China! It’s time. The Square belongs to everyone. With your own two feet It’s time to…
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
31 Jan 2011Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, the novel, made a nice little splash in my reading circles when it came…
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U.S. Called “A Preening Pig”
12 Oct 2010Climate change advances inexorably, like the momentum of the huge glaciers it is destroying. Meanwhile the human race is tap-dancing…
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Beijing Coma: A Novel
24 May 2010Mainland China is an enormous country. With 9.6 million square kilometers it is the third largest country in the world …
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Muddy River: A Town in China
26 Sep 2009The greater the flood of news the faster we are carried along. We have time to see only the surfaces…
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China Leads as CO2 Polluter
15 Jun 2008China has clearly overtaken the United States as the world’s leading emitter of carbon dioxide.
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China Climate Chaos
30 Jan 2008The snow and cold in much of China over the past week has been sporadically in the news. It deserves…
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China Drought
16 Jan 2008Just thought you’d like to know… The waters of the Yangtze have fallen to their lowest levels since 1866, disrupting…
