China's Curious Cult of the Mango
A really interesting look at how a 1966 gift from the Pakistani foreign minister to Mao sparked a brief obsession with the mango. Stories...
The Cultural Revolution at 50: A Q&A with Four Specialists
From the Los Angeles Review of Books: "This year marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning, and the 40th anniversary of the end, of...
11 Slogans That Changed China
Interesting article from the BBC that covers exactly what the title says. Brownie points to whoever coined 'The Three Represents' for...
Mainland refugees fleeing famine are rejected by British Hong Kong; a photo collection.
A short collection of photographs presented by the increasingly-interesting Hong Kong Free Press https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/13/hk...
China Under Mao, a Q & A with Andrew G. Walder
In his latest book, Stanford Sociologist Andrew Wilder argues Mao "lurched from crisis to crisis, inspired less by a new vision of...
How Deng Xiaoping Helped Create a Corrupt China
Bao Tong, former Policy Secretary for Zhao Ziyang and one-time Director of the Office of Political Reform of the CCP Central Committee,...
How Did the One-Child Policy Change China?: An Interview with Mei Fong
Award-winning author Barbara Demick interviews Mei Fong in The New Yorker about China’s One Child Policy. http://www.newyorker.com/news/...
