Market for Bear Bile Threatens Asian Population
New York Times.com January 28, 2013 The six bears that arrived this month at Animals Asia, an animal rescue center in China, had the grisly symptoms of inhumane bile milking. Greenish bile […]
Category Archives: China
Beyond Translation
Christian Science Monitor November 22, 2011 Over the years, “chinglish” – those merrily mangled Chinese-to-English translations found in China– have spawned a subculture. Books and websites showcase how in China, mundane […]
Dalai Lama takes his case to Chinese émigrés
Christian Science Monitor June 12, 2009 When the Dalai Lama traveled to the Netherlands last week his Buddhist teaching was heard by 10,000 people and he was received by the […]
Catching up to China?
Financial Times July 5, 2007 When I lived in mainland China 10 years ago, most everyone got around by bicycle. Private cars were rare. I rode in one just once […]
China’s war for returning talent hots up
Financial Times February 16, 2006 Multinationals are fighting over the pick of foreign-educated managers to run Chinese operations as the ‘brain drain’ is reversed The China of the early 1980s […]
Stakes high as Las Vegas welcomes in the new year
Financial Times February 9, 2005 US gaming groups with an eye on the East prepare for the annual Chinese pilgrimage A 10-foot tall animatronic rooster sits inside the glass-domed conservatory […]
Passion Flower
Boston Globe Magazine October 17, 2004 Years after meeting in Hong Kong, the author finds that Shiu-Ying Hu, one of the first Chinese women to earn a PhD from Harvard […]
Bilingual US schoolchildren spread the word
Financial Times May 18 2004 The footsoldiers of globalisation are getting younger as American children take up Chinese, reports Amy Yee. It’s a typical afternoon for thexiao pengyou – or […]
Ancient Art From Sichuan Twists Chinese History
The Asian Wall Street Journal May10, 2002 A summer’s day began like any other day for a group of Chinese brickworkers in the village of Sanxingdui, in Sichuan province. They […]
Scribbles From the Underground
The Asian Wall Street Journal 8 February 2002 During the dark years of China’s Cultural Revolution, the writer-artist Mu Xin was imprisoned in an abandoned air-raid shelter in Shanghai. His […]
