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The Post-Berlin Aftermath: Many Walls Still Need to Be Brought Down

Jean-Pierre Lehmann | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Slumdog Millionaire, East Berlin, Berlin Wall, East Germany, West Germany, Mumbai, Political Economy, Walls, West Berlin, Global Eonomy, London, Berlin Wall Fall, Partition, Shanghai, Dubai, Twentieth Anniversary Berlin Wall, World News
Jean-Pierre Lehmann

While the Berlin Wall may have been torn down, there remain many walls that are defiantly standing and indeed new ones that have been erected.

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Shanghai Disney/Shanghai Expo

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: China, Disneyland, Shanghai, World, World News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

There exist complex ties between the International Exhibition lineage that the 2010 Shanghai Expo will continue, on the one hand, and Disney theme parks, on the other.

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China Hotels Go for the Upgrade

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 10.25.2009 | Style

Read More: Green Tech, Luxury Travel, Boutique Hotels, China, Shanghai, Beijing, Style News
Rebecca Fannin

The concept of customer service is still fairly new in China. That's most noticeably true if you're traveling on business.

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Asia Society's Prez on Global Citizens Like Obama

Jim Luce | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Upper East Side, Facebook, Performances, That, Shanghai, Afs, Pakistan, Jaffna, Hong Kong, Asian Art, Vishakha Desai, John D. Rockefeller, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Muslim, Andy Warhol Foundation, Indonesia, Hindu, Vietnam War, Korea, Williams College, Buddhist, Elephant Story, Nigeria, Mumbai, Brookings Institution, Sri Lanka., Robert B. Oxnam, Thought Leader, Manila, University of Massachusetts, Education, Asian Women Leaders, United States, Asia Society, Mathew Luce, Barack Obama, Global Citizen, Boston University, Asian-Americans, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Columbia University, Bombay University, U.S.-Asia Relationship, Hillary Clinton., Youtube, Taliban, India, International Relations, Asian Art History, Gates Foundation, New York News
Jim Luce

Asia Society president Vishakha Desai says, "Ours is a complex institution, and those experiencing it can describe it in the same way the blind men touch and describe an elephant."

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Getting Ready to Make Sense of Zhang Yimou's Olympic Sequel

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: World, China, Beijing Olympics, Prc, America, Naitonal Day, Athletes, Olympics, 60, The China Beat, Shanghai, People's Republic, World News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Without further ado, here are the first three exercises in my six-step plan to get ready for the Chinese National Day.

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Shanghai Tells Couples: Please Have 2 Kids

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

Read More: Shanghai Population, Shanghai 2 Kids, China 2 Children, China 1 Child, China, Shanghai 2 Children, China Population, Shanghai, China One Child, World News

BEIJING — Family planning officials in Shanghai are making home visits and slipping leaflets under doorways to encourage certain residents to ha...

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Thoughts on Facebook from China

Olivia Sterns | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Google, China Internet, Internet, Baidu.com, Beijing, China Media Censorship, Internet Censorship, Baidu, China Media Internet Censorship, China, Shanghai, World News
Olivia Sterns

It's not news that the Chinese government actively works to prevent the free flow of information, but what I did find surprising were the mixed emotions about it amongst the Chinese I met.

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Shanghai Planning Own "Wall Street bull": Report

Reuters | Posted 08.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Shanghai Wall Street Bull, Wall Street, China, Shanghai, Wall Street Bull, Shanghai-China, New York-New York, Business News

Wall Street may be down on its luck, but China's growing business hub, Shanghai, plans to install its own version of the Street's famed charging bull ...

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Barbie Survives Recession: Store Opens In China, The First Of Its Kind (VIDEO)

Al Jazeera | Melissa Chan | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Barbie, Barbie Store, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Shanghai-China, China, Shanghai, Advocacy, Shanghai Barbie Store, Business News

China's economic resilience during the global downturn is attracting a growing number of American companies. One of them is the toymaker Mattel, make...

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Misrepresenting Minorities in Shanghai's World Expo Publicity Push

Alexander Davenport | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: China Muslims, China Tibet, China Human Rights, Shanghai, China, World News, World News
Alexander Davenport

As the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai approaches, the government has been making a push to showcase the city as a model of social harmony. Just how they are making the sell misrepresents the minorities of China.

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Huff Post Exclusive! 2010 Porsche Panamera sedans take on Southern California freeways

Steve Parker | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Volkswagen, Chrysler Crossfire, Maserati Quattroporte, Atlanta, Shanghai, Cars, Harley-Davidson v-Rod, Paris, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Southern California, Petersen Automotive Museum, Don Panoz, Tokyo, Porsche Panamera, Vasek Polak, Detroit, Aston-Martin Lagonda, San Diego Freeway, American Lemans Series, All-Wheel Drive, Coachella Valley, Hermosa Beach, Milwaukee, Santa Monica Freeway, Palm Springs, Cayenne, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Stuttgart, Indian Wells, Porsche 959, Georgia, Iphone, Stutz Bearcat, Carrera, Bruce Springsteen, Business News
Steve Parker

Just over a month ago, Porsche released the production facts and figures and pricing for their new Panamera four-door sedan. And today, we nearly ran ...

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Barbie In China: Mattel To Open Barbie Superstore In Shanghai

GlobalPost.com | Emily Rauhala | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Mattel Shanghai, Barbie, Mattel, Barbie China, Barbie Shanghai, Mattel China, China, Shanghai, Barbie 50, Barbai Shanghai, World News

HONG KONG -- Tall, blond, impossibly large breasts. Barbie stands out anywhere, but in China, she really turns heads. And that, of course, is exactl...

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The International Impact of China's Olympic Moment

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Zhang Yimou, World, China, Shanghai, Beijing Olympics, Beijing, South Park, World News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

The Beijing Games should be seen as a part of an ongoing, ambitious, and so far partially successful re-branding effort on the part of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Asia: The Coming Fury

Walden Bello | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Asia, Trade, Barack Obama, Asian Markets, Taiwan, Hillary Clinton Asia, Shanghai, Vietnam, Korea, Bangkok, China, World News
Walden Bello

East Asia may be entering a period of radical protest and social revolution that went out of style when export-oriented industrialization became the fashion three decades ago.

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Fat Bucks

Megan Shank | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Weight Watchers, Groupe Danone, Children, Investment, Acupuncture, Shanghai, Nutrition, China, Obesity, Health Affairs, Ephedra, World News
Megan Shank

As China's diet and lifestyle habits change in sync with its newly achieved wealth, more than a quarter of China's adult population has become overweight or obese.

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HOTELS TAKING "GOING GREEN" TO NEW TOPS WITH GREEN ROOFS

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Stefanie Michaels, Shanghai, Chicago, Audubon Society, Green, China, Greenlodgingnews.com, Mirror Lake, Leed, New York, Reuse, Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort, Green Seal Certification, Lake PLacid, Recycle, Hotels, Environmental, Adventure Girl, Environment, North America, Green Weddings, Reduce, Songjiang Hotel, Wildlife, Intercontinental Hotel, Baltimore, Green Roofs, Hvac, Hilton, Green News
Stefanie Michaels

Hotels are looking for new ways to run more efficiently and looking to nature to give them some ideas. The latest in green technology is allowing hote...

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The China Question: To Beg or to Blog?

Steve Posner | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: China Communist Party, Chinese Communists, Chinese Workers, Beijing Olympics, Chinese, Mao Zedong, China Censorship, China Poverty, Chinese Peasants, China, Shanghai, China Human Rights, China Boycott, Politics News
Steve Posner

Mao's successors in the Communist Party are offering the Chinese people food but not freedom, and many are happy to take the deal.

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Kobe Leads The Way As Team USA Downs Russia

AP | BRIAN MAHONEY | Posted 08.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: USA Basketball, Team USA, Kobe Bryant, U.S. Olympic Basketball, Olympics, Shanghai, Beijing Olympics, Entertainment News

SHANGHAI, China — Russia contained the speedsters. Controlled the backboards. Everything a team needs to do to beat the United States. Except st...

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Shanghai Shows Olympic Excitement

Meghan Peters | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Beijing, Olympics, Beijing Olympics, China Olympics, Shanghai, Living News
Meghan Peters

Despite being nearly as far from Beijing as San Francisco is from Seattle, Shanghai had the same "Beijing 2008" signs that are scattered throughout China's capital.

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An Awful Competition in a Changing China

Lea Lane | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Tong Li, Hang Zhou, Shanghai, Sun Yat-Sen, MagLev Train, China, Olympics, Suzhou, Living News
Lea Lane

For the Olympics, the air no doubt will be cleaned. But glimpsing twenty years of changes in China I can only wonder what direction this huge, complex country will take twenty years from now.

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Falun Gong, Other "Troublemakers" Confined to Shanghai During Games

AP | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Falun Gong, Chinese Dissidents, Human Rights, China, Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Shanghai, Politics News

BEIJING — Shanghai has banned dissidents, Falun Gong members and other regime critics from leaving the city during the August Olympics, a human ...

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Honk if You're Heartbroken

Megan Shank | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Sichuan, Memorial, China Earthquake, Mourning, China Earthquake Death Toll, Shanghai, Living News
Megan Shank

Today at approximately 2:30pm in Shanghai, a swell of horns surged outside of my 19th floor office window. It was one of the first in a three-day period of nationwide mourning.

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