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Chopsticks for the 21st Century
My first encounter with China was, oddly, at the top of the Empire State Building. I was a young student, and climbing to the top of the Manhattan landmark was the last thing I did
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The Emperor’s New Clothes
For some years now, I have been observing China from a distance, never going back to the country that I called my third home for many years. Back then, during my long stays in China,
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The Conquest of America
In February 2013, the Columbia Spectator, a daily paper edited by students of Columbia University, published an attempt at an introspective piece about Chinese students at the prestigious university in New York. “The China Game”
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Trans, Siberia.
Life is full of wonderful little coincidences. But perhaps there is a better word for this: flukes. I learned the word only last week, through an article that some readers might recall from the previous
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Black Site, Black Jail
“Why do I have to read the most interesting American stories in the foreign press?” asked a reader, tweeting the link to a Guardian story on Homan Square, a secret police interrogation center discovered in
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