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When I was in college, I would need to take a bus across a number of Midwestern states to get home for many of the breaks. I hated it with such a passion that upon graduation, I promised myself I would never again take a bus for more [...]
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The results of China’s first national pollution survey make for dispiriting reading. But, argues Ma Jun, their release could be the spark for environmental recovery.
Figures from China’s first national pollution survey were jointly released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the [...]
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Meng Si visited a project in eastern China that trials natural farming methods. Introducing her photographs of the farm, she says extending its agricultural revolution still seems a distant dream.
In late 2008, reports claimed that pesticide residue in peanuts grown in one county in Shandong, eastern China, were at [...]
Those who follow China Beat on Twitter might have noticed that our long-neglected feed has shown signs of awakening lately. We’re slowly trying to figure out the best ways to use Twitter to complement the blog, and have come up with a few ideas that we’ll begin incorporating over the next several weeks. Ours is [...]
The lead-up to the Dalia Lama’s meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House last week received a great deal of attention from the press, and there was also a considerable amount of after the fact assessment of the event. In order to place what happened into a broad historical perspective, I put a [...]
By Kate Merkel-Hess
In January, we marked the end of our second year online. China Beat has changed a lot during that time, and will be changing more in the coming weeks and months as China Beat’s new editor, Maura Cunningham, takes the helm. It’s been my pleasure to have been founding editor of China Beat, [...]
Since Jeff Wasserstrom posted a round-up of reviews of Martin Jacques’ When China Rules the World, pieces that reference the book have continued to be published, including a column by Robert Samuelson at the Wall Street Journal that calls Jacques’ book ”masterful.” Jacques, meanwhile, published another op-ed on China and the US last week titled [...]
There have been plenty of news stories recently about today’s meeting between Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama. Here are some suggestions for further reading (and viewing):
1. Tibet expert Robert Barnett of Columbia University is interviewed by Deborah Jerome of the Council of Foreign Relations:
All American presidents since 1990 have met with the Dalai Lama, [...]
We wanted to draw reader attention to a few interviews that aired this week from regular China Beat contributors.
Yesterday, Jeff Wasserstrom appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition to discuss Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama. You can listen to the four-minute interview here.
On Tuesday, an interview with Sam Crane, who posted a piece about Avatar at [...]
This essay is based on the script of a talk Ying Zhu gave at Google’s New York offices on February 12, 2010. Sections in bold were not part of the original talk, but have been added by the authors to tease out some of the issues that were left without further elaboration due to time [...]