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Wikimedia Commons Rashōmon Comes to Hong Kong: 3 Ways of Viewing the Latest News
China is doing better, doing worse, and staying the same. Discuss.
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Reuters Your Guide to the Latest Depressing News Out of China
On democracy in Hong Kong and economic reforms in Beijing
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James Fallows You Think Your Summer Travel Plans Are Rough? Spare a Thought for People in China
Whenever the People's Liberation Army Air Force decides it's time to practice, millions of passengers sit in the terminal or on the taxiway and fume.
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James Fallows Readings on Strategy: China and Its Islamic Issues
Chinese suppression of a mainly Muslim region makes resistance there worse, which increases the suppression, which increases the resistance, and .... A familiar pattern in another locale.
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Reuters Your 3-Letter Guide to the Latest News From China
Those three letters are B, A, and D.
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Broadside Books Five Good Books
On sale now!
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Wikimedia commons The China Story You Should Pay Attention to, and the One You Should Ignore
Skip past anything that talks about a coming dawn of the Chinese Century. Go straight to stories on the complications of China in the here-and-now.
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NASA via Atlantic 2 Charts That Put the Chinese Pollution Crisis in Perspective
No one now alive has experienced anything similar in North America or Europe, except in the middle of a forest fire or a volcanic eruption.
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Reuters Why the Anti-Corruption Drive in China Is So Important, and So Potentially Destabilizing
Is the country moving from "efficient corruption" to something worse?
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Museum of American Finance Bloomberg in China: It's Not About the Terminals, It's About the Data
Either way, there's a tension with the company's journalistic operations.
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Bloomberg and China, TL;DR Version
What would Bloomberg's best reporters make of an institution that tried to stonewall its way past a controversy?
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Bloomberg Another Bloomberg Editor Explains Why He Has Resigned, Over Its China Coverage
"For the international press, there are many reasons for crimped ambitions."
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Yuri Gripas/Reuters Friday Update: Filibuster, Surveillance State, Political Macho, and Other Hardy Perennials
A word we should use more frequently ("filibuster"), and one we should use less ("tough")
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AP photo, via NPR Chinese Media: The Bad and the ... Puzzling
黄皮白心”的香蕉人" and other great moments in international understanding. Bonus: the person Megyn Kelly should meet on her next trip to Beijing.
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Happy and Unhappy in China
Laughing through the airpocalypse, no longer laughing at a familiar joke
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Thursday Late-Night Reader: Eight Ways of Thinking About China
Can China hope to become ... the next Mexico?
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What Is a 'Class-A War Criminal'? More on the Yasukuni Controversy
The complications of wartime memory, continued
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Yasukuni, Yūshūkan: Yes, There Is More
"Love the sinner, hate the sin," as rendered into Japanese.
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'Stop Talking About Yasukuni; the Real Problem Is Yūshūkan'
Why a museum matters more than a shrine.
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But Wait, There's More: Yasukuni, Arlington, Doolittle, and LeMay
More on "victors' justice" and the standards by which we judge the brutality of war.
