A Spoonful of Sugar
As a westerner living in the capital, I have mixed feelings about the 60th anniversary. I was initially vexed to learn that Beijingers couldn't attend their own country's parade.
As a westerner living in the capital, I have mixed feelings about the 60th anniversary. I was initially vexed to learn that Beijingers couldn't attend their own country's parade.
David Flumenbaum | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York
Wednesday night, the Empire State Building illumined its spire with red and yellow lights in honor of China. While this isn't the first time it's gone red and yellow, it's the first time it's been done for Mao.
Eric Margolis | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
The Great Helmsman united fractured, war-torn China, restoring its pride and self-confidence after two centuries of humiliation.
Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
We are left with a picture of a China that is full of contradictions and conflicting trends, of liberalizing desire to become an open society mixed with a strong strain of conservative attachment, of kitsch and real splendor existing side-by-side.
Cedric Perrier | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
In the last six months alone, we have begun to see the rise of the electronic electorate and with it a real prospect for the growth of Referendum politics.
Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment
As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.
Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media
Erez Manela's new book, The Wilsonian Moment, recounts how the Wilson administration undertook an enormous campaign to distribute speeches that the president made about self-determination.
John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
In the world's biggest annual migration every Chinese New Year over one hundred million internal migrants take a break from their jobs and studies in ...
Subhash Ghimire | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
More than 80% of Nepalese live in villages with very little access to health, education and other modern amenities. Lands seized by Maoists during the decade long war from 1996 to 2006 have not been returned to the owners.
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
Money, observed the witty British thinker Malcolm Muggeridge, is the homogenized form of power. No more money, no more power. The great imperialist ...
Tracy Lea Carnes | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home
Canada has a form of democratic socialism yet I don't see them suddenly amassing an army and marching across the border to impose their health care system, crazy accents, and Moulson beer on us. Inflicting Celine Dion on us was enough.
Chi Tung | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media
American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.
AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home
BEIJING — Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that lau...
Steve Posner | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
Mao's successors in the Communist Party are offering the Chinese people food but not freedom, and many are happy to take the deal.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess | Posted 08.10.2008 | Media
In recognition of the limited time he has before departing for Beijing, we've put together a brief list of the best recent China writing on the Web.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
The Olympics in Beijing this summer involve a lot of drastic, last-minute facelifting for China, from smog cleanup to unusual Chinese algae collection...
Roseann M. Lake | Posted 10.10.2009 | Home