Headlines about China have been looking the same for some time now. “The China story” always seems to be political: labor riots and their suppression; sabre-rattling over Taiwan and cultural erasure in Tibet; catastrophic earthquakes and official ineptitude; internet censorship and jailed dissidents (the latest being Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo). Even ostensibly good news, such as the Chinese government’s investment in wind power, becomes yet another story about how China is going to eat our lunch
For the past week, all over China, writers have been bumping into each other at hotel check-ins, or ...
While our forthcoming blog-to-book, China in 2008, contains some content that regular China Beat rea...
Earlier this year, a graduate of his country’s most prestigious law school with an impressive record...
Headlines about China have been looking the same for some time now. “The China story” always seems t...
Headlines about China have been looking the same for some time now. “The China story” always seems t...
David Kelly, researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, translated the following opinion pie...
Chinese, following Chairman Mao’s famous phrase, tend to use the expression “like a fire burning in ...
Remember those jailbirds who know all of each others’ jokes? They don’t tell the whole joke, just sh...
Urbanatomy has been running a series called “Why I Write” for the past several months, and we’ve not...
China Beat is a global operation (with posts being written thus far everywhere from Beijing to Bosto...
A grab bag of readings around the web that we wanted to share — loosely connected by a “China in the...
China has been looming ever larger in the global economy and the global imagination in recent years,...
Chinese literature and its significance or insignificance is a continued subject of heated debate in...
1. An important story emerged this weekend in the blogosphere: Chinese legal scholar Xu Zhiyong was ...
A review of literature centered around Chinese culture and people. Originally published in US-China ...
For the past week, all over China, writers have been bumping into each other at hotel check-ins, or ...
While our forthcoming blog-to-book, China in 2008, contains some content that regular China Beat rea...
Earlier this year, a graduate of his country’s most prestigious law school with an impressive record...
Headlines about China have been looking the same for some time now. “The China story” always seems t...
Headlines about China have been looking the same for some time now. “The China story” always seems t...
David Kelly, researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, translated the following opinion pie...
Chinese, following Chairman Mao’s famous phrase, tend to use the expression “like a fire burning in ...
Remember those jailbirds who know all of each others’ jokes? They don’t tell the whole joke, just sh...
Urbanatomy has been running a series called “Why I Write” for the past several months, and we’ve not...
China Beat is a global operation (with posts being written thus far everywhere from Beijing to Bosto...
A grab bag of readings around the web that we wanted to share — loosely connected by a “China in the...
China has been looming ever larger in the global economy and the global imagination in recent years,...
Chinese literature and its significance or insignificance is a continued subject of heated debate in...
1. An important story emerged this weekend in the blogosphere: Chinese legal scholar Xu Zhiyong was ...
A review of literature centered around Chinese culture and people. Originally published in US-China ...
For the past week, all over China, writers have been bumping into each other at hotel check-ins, or ...
While our forthcoming blog-to-book, China in 2008, contains some content that regular China Beat rea...
Earlier this year, a graduate of his country’s most prestigious law school with an impressive record...