Tiananmen at Twenty
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China has changed enormously since the 1989 massacre, but the Communist Party continues to deny what happened. Americans, too, continue to misremember a complex event.
2009
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Can China Catch a Cool Breeze?
Christian Parenti : Environment
The planet's future depends largely on the fate of China's nascent wind sector.
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The Year China Jumped the Gun
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : History
China is a country that takes anniversaries seriously. But reaction to significant historical events to be commemorated this year has already taken place.
2008
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Milk Scandal Taints China's Self-Image
Anna Greenspan : Food & Nutrition
The tainted milk crisis could prod China to act responsibly.
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Toxic Loans, Tainted Food
David E. Gumpert : U.S. Economy
As financial markets reel from the US financial crisis and tainted Chinese dairy products are sold around the world, we're learning hard lessons on the limits of globalization.
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China's Quest for Moral Authority
Orville Schell : Foreign Affairs
China is booming, but slouches toward the moral authority needed to inspire a modern, open and prosperous state. Does Confucius hold the key?
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What Would Mao Think of the Games?
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : History
He'd feel bad that the whole Communist era was airbrushed out of the Olympic spectacle. But he'd probably like the swimming.
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Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Presidential Election 2008
China's middle class ambitions; the Democrats' quest for blue-collar votes.
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Beyond Beijing: China's Toughest Competition
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom & Kate Merkel-Hess : Sports
How will the Olympics play in the Chinese equivalent of Peoria, among a populace skeptical of the government's intent and eager to tout their own economic clout?
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Class Struggle in the New China
Christian Parenti : World Economy
Across China there is a rising rural and urban class struggle as the economy moves from Maoist socialism to a strange type of quasi-Maoist capitalism.
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Strong Medicine
Melissa Holbrook Pierson : Books, Literature, & Ideas
An epic portrait of the Tiananmen Square protests, Ma Jian's Beijing Coma is one hell of a powerful novel.
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Fathers and Sons
Matt Steinglass : Books, Literature, & Ideas
Three recent books trace the generational fault lines of the Confucian family during China's past and present revolutions.
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Who's Your Buddha?
Howard W. French : Non-Fiction
A collection of oral histories reveal a new understanding of the modern Chinese experience.
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Hold China Accountable on Darfur
Ruth Messinger & Jerry Fowler : Sports
Don't let Olympic fever obscure the role China plays in the Sudanese government's reign of terror, rape and killing.
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Taiwan Declares Peace on China
You can't trust the Chinese. I don't care if you're talking about those communists on the mainland or the other guys on Taiwan; they just won't follow the wargames script that our weapons hawks had counted on.
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China's Inauspicious Year
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
China's response to the earthquake and other calamities of 2008 challenges the West to rethink its prejudices.
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Regime-Quakes in Burma and China
Nothing terrifies a repressive regime more than a natural disaster.
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