The other day, my fiancee asked me — rather out of the blue — if I was proud to be an American. The question caught me off guard. Pressed for an answer, I suggested that I was sometimes proud to be American, and by way of example noted the recent “terror mosque” controversy that’s...
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Southern Weekend looks into whether or not the weather reports in China are reporting temperatures too low. (They are!)
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In the wake of the Zhouqu landslides, an argument breaks out in Chinese on an American website and quickly devolves into stupid bickering.
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The world knows that China is not a perfect place, so presenting it as one and trying to cover up all of its flaws comes off as dishonest.
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A translation of Chinese online discussions about Starcraft 2 and the prejudice Chinese gamers face on Taiwanese servers.
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Wang Keqin's photos from the site of the massive mudslides that have claimed hundreds of lives in Zhouqu, Gansu.
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The Guo Degang scandal and China's bizarre fixation on squeaky-clean celebrities.
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Why Chen Min thins the Beijing Police agreeing to follow the law in monitoring their own microblog is a good thing.
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Some compelling homemade videos of the Jilin floods cause us to speculate about what the increased prevalence of this kind of video might do for journalism and information freedom within China's authoritarian system.
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A quick analysis of an interesting political cartoon from Southern Weekend.
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