Is China's Premier on his way of becoming a national hero and the countries highest ranking dissident?
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Is China's Premier on his way of becoming a national hero and the countries highest ranking dissident?
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Han Han finally responds to some of his critics, but in doing so, he manages to make himself look even worse.
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The "My Dad is Li Gang" incident has uncovered a number of other, smaller scandals, the most recent of which is the Hebei University President's extensive plagiarism on his Ph.D thesis.
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My take on the "Chinese Professor" ad.
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The lengths that some test takers are willing to go to for good marks, and what foreign testing institutions, like ETS, are doing to stop them.
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Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize has given rise to a lot of discussion. The Global Times, for one, has been running vicious op-eds slamming Liu and the Nobel Peace Prize daily since the award was announced. Some of the discussion happening outside official media, in contrast, has been interesting and productive, but...
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The successful rescue of 33 miners trapped underground in Chile for 69 days had drawn a lot of comments from netizens in China. China’s coal mining industry is considered one of the most dangerous in the world. According to official figures, 2,631 coal miners died in 1,616 mine accidents in China in 2009, but...
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We sit down with Tania Branigan, the Guardian's China correspondent, and talk about being a foreign correspondent in China.
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An interview with the man who founded 1984bbs. Today, that bbs closes for good. Learn why it was important, and what Zhang had to put up with to keep it open as long as he did.
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We interview Tom Lasseter about how you start covering China, his favorite stories so far, and whether or not Xinhua's push to boost China's soft power can really work.
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