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July 14, 2009

James Millward tells us what's been happening in Xinjiang

Recently BBC Radio interviewed James Millward, author of Eurasian Crossroads, on the ongoing situation in Xinjiang, China. Xinjiang province in China is home to a large Uighur minority population – ethnic Turkic Muslims – who the government says are radical...

July 1, 2009

“Green Dam” as a Case of Online Activism in China

The following is a post by Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online. According to a directive first issued by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on May 19, 2009, July 1...

June 30, 2009

Shakespeare in China

In his new book Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange, Alexander Huang examines “the transnational imaginary of China in Shakespearean performance and Shakespeare’s place in Chinese cultural history from the first Opium War in 1839 to our times.” Huang...

June 8, 2009

"In North Korea, everyone knows that a labor camp is a place where life is suspended. One does not live there, one slowly dies there. I was simply another dead soul in Camp No. 14."

As the New York Times and others have reported, North Korea sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor. While little is known about them, the North Korean labor camps are notorious for their brutal conditions. One of...

May 26, 2009

Pyongbang!: Washington's Korea Conundrum" — Victor Cha on North Korea

Though written after North Korea’s failed missile launch earlier this Spring, Victor Cha’s article on the Foreign Affairs Web site speaks to this weekend’s events. Victor Cha, co-author of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies , argues, “So...

May 20, 2009

Interview and Author Event with Stephen Phillips, Author of Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth

15.8 million people in America now practice yoga according to a recent survey done by Yoga Journal. Most of us are familiar with the mats, the apparel, and basic asanas (such as Downward Facing Dog or the Corpse Pose) but...

May 11, 2009

Asia Times on Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

Surviving North Korea’s House of the Dead, from today’s Asia Times Online, discusses the forthcoming Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor by Kim Yong and Kim Suk-Young. The article discusses Kim Yong’s extraordinary account of being...

May 6, 2009

Reading film in China

Earlier this week on Book Bench, the New Yorker‘s blog on books, Evan Osnos recommended some books that might serve as an introduction to filmmaking in China. We were pleased to see that he mentioned Michael Berry’s Speaking in Images:...

March 31, 2009

Peter Maguire on the Cambodian Genocide Trials

Yesterday, The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) interviewed Peter Maguire, author of Facing Death in Cambodia, about the opening of the Cambodian genocide tribunal. The long-delayed tribunal began with the testimony of the man known as Brother Duch. As Maguire states...

March 20, 2009

Tibet and China: The Past in the Present — Tsering Shakya in Open Democracy

In commemoration of the events of 1959, the Chinese government recently announced the creation of “Serf Liberation Day” to celebrates China’s “liberation” of Tibet from the evils of the oppressive Tibet’s former rulers. In an article published yesterday in Open...

March 11, 2009

Robert Barnett on the 50th Anniversary of the Dalai Lama's Flight from Tibet

Yesterday was the fiftieth anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s forced exile to India and to discuss the event, NPR interviewed Robert Barnett, director modern Tibetian studies at Columbia University and author of Lhasa: Streets with Memories. Barnett, who was in...

March 5, 2009

A Poem in Honor of Spring

I don’t know about you, but we are getting tired of winter’s bitter cold and snow assaulting us here in New York City. To encourage warmer weather we offer below a poem from the anthology Beyond Spring: Tz’u poems of the...

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