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“Are China’s Rulers Getting Religion?”
By Maya E. Rudolph For Chinese government authorities, there’s a lot to keep up with these days. “Worsening inflation, a slowing economy,...
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Nov 16, 2011


China’s ‘Third Affliction’: David Bandurski on Zhao Dayong, China’s New Cult
"Ghost Town" (dir. Zhao Dayong) In an article for the New York Times‘s “Latitudes: Views From Around the World” blog, producer of Chinese...
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Nov 14, 2011


Online Videos and Communities Confront Social <i>Disorder</i> in China
By Maya E. Rudolph "Disorder" compiles numerous videos capturing social disharmony in China In an age where surveillance videos serve as...
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Oct 31, 2011


A Review of <i>Beijing Besieged By Waste</i>, Screening Saturday at Asia Society
By Isabella Tianzi Cai Police inspect illegal cooking oil, better known as 'drainage oil', seized during a crackdown in Beijing (Photo:...
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Oct 28, 2011


Thinking Differently on Steve Jobs’ Legacy: the <i>Struggle</i> of Chinese Labor R
By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph Assembly line workers at Foxconn manufacturing facility subcontracted to Apple (photo: Kotaku) A man, a plan,...
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Oct 18, 2011


China Pulls the Plug on <i>Super Girl</i> Singing Contest
By Isabella Tianzi Cai The State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) of China took the country’s most popular talent...
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Oct 4, 2011


School Shutdowns Take Aim at China’s Migrant Worker Children
By Isabella Tianzi Cai Shut out of school, migrant children study on the street in Cui Zi'en's "We Are the... of Communism" Recently,...
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Sep 27, 2011


Ai Weiwei on Beijing, a “Nightmare” of a City
By Isabella Tianzi Cai The Olympic Stadium in Beijing, designed by Ai Weiwei in the city he now calls "a nightmare" In his essay posted...
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Sep 8, 2011


Artist Yang Weidong’s New Project Asks What Chinese Really Need
By Isabella Tianzi Cai Yang Weidong interviews a subject for his documentary project "Signal" (Photo: Yang Weidong) A work in progress by...
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Aug 30, 2011


History in Progress, with Gaps: The National Museum of China, Part Two
By Shelly Kraicer Visitors seem dazzled by the might of painterly propaganda in the "90th anniversary of the CCP" painting exhibit. A...
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Aug 3, 2011


Childhood Friends, Now Major Artists: Liu Xiaodong and Wang Xiaoshuai
By Kevin B. Lee ”] When Wang Xiaoshuai realized he could never paint as finely as his high school pal Liu Xiaodong, he gave up painting...
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Jul 26, 2011


Beijing Demolition for Subway Sprawl Provokes Resistance
By Kevin B. Lee Demolition Dominates the Residents of Beijing in "Meishi Street" In China Beat, Jared Hall reports on the spate of public...
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Jul 26, 2011


A Visit to the IFChina Original Studio with Filmmaker Jian Yi
By Dan Edwards IFChina Studio founder and filmmaker Jian Yi, outside the studio on the campus of Jinggangshan University Reprinted by...
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Jul 21, 2011


Interview with Beijing Queer Film Festival’s Yang Yang
from bjqff.com By Ariella Tai Beijing Queer Film Festival, a biennial celebration of gay, lesbian and queer films held biannually,...
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Jul 12, 2011


Cao Fei and Chinese Youth Culture
Cao Fei (photo credit: The New York Times) By Ariella Tai Internationally renowned visual artist Cao Fei has recently put on a new show...
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Jul 6, 2011


W+K NEXT: Summer Internship for Young Chinese Creators
Read announcement in Chinese. This summer, W+K Shanghai is seeking the boldest young writers, art directors, designers, hybrid thinkers...
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Jun 25, 2011


One Man’s Search for Justice leads to Violence in Jiangxi Province
On the morning of May 27th, three government buildings in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, were bombed simultaneously in explosions that killed...
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Jun 20, 2011


Measuring the Human Cost of an iPad made in China
By Ariella Tai On May 20th, an explosion that killed two and wounded sixteen others rocked a factory in Chengdu owned by the Taiwanese...
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Jun 12, 2011


Rural Film History Museum Opens in China
By Isabella Tianzi Cai ”] The older Chinese generation, who have lived through the founding of the New China, the Great Leap Forward...
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Jun 1, 2011


“Urgent Problems” Facing the Three Gorges Dam
By Ariella Tai Water being released from the Three Gorges Dam in central China's Hubei province. The state council has admitted the dam...
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May 30, 2011
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