Interviews

Interview Series Episode 3: Tania Branigan

October 16, 2010
By C. Custer
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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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Interview Series Episode 2: Secretary Zhang

October 12, 2010
By C. Custer
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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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Interview Series Episode 1: Tom Lasseter

October 11, 2010
By C. Custer
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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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The 9.18 Protest: a Show of Force

September 19, 2010
By C. Custer
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A small but angry group of protesters turned out at the Japanese embassy Saturday morning to protest Japan's actions in the Diaoyu Islands. We headed down there with a video camera to take it all in.
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Education, Critical Thinking, and Creativity

February 7, 2010
By C. Custer

The constitution of the People’s Republic of China states that Chinese citizens have “have the duty as well as the right to receive education have the freedom to engage in scientific research, literary and artistic creation and other cultural pursuits.” Yet anyone who has set foot in a Chinese classroom —...
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Hecaitou on Race in China

February 3, 2010
By C. Custer

A couple weeks ago, I sent out an informal survey on race to the emails of many of the Chinese people whose blogs I read. I got nothing in response from anyone (a few “mail delivery failures” was all) until a few days ago when I got a response from a rather unexpected place:...
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Interview with Ole Schell

November 11, 2009
By C. Custer

A while back we ran a review of the film Win in China, a documentary about Chinese entrepreneurship directed by Ole Schell, son of famed China scholar Orville Schell. We were offered a chance to interview Ole, and jumped at the chance. ChinaGeeks: Which came first, the idea of making a documentary about “Win...
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