ZGBriefs | August 16, 2018
[Outbound]: Noodle School (August 13, 2018, Smart Shanghai)
I know all of this about hand-pulled noodles, and more. And still, I am a noodle school dropout.
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ZGBriefs | August 9, 2018
Remaking China’s Civil Society in the Xi Jinping Era (August 2, 2018, China File)
Xi is advancing an ambitious effort to remake civil society in the Party-state’s image.
ZGBriefs | August 2, 2018
How a Chinese cook helped establish Yosemite and the National Park Service (July 22, 2018, NBC News) “Hundreds of Chinese go to Yosemite. ... Imagine what the experience would be for them if they knew that Chinese worked on these roads over a hundred years ago.”
ZGBriefs | July 26, 2018
Airlines comply with demand from China that Taiwan not be referred to as a sovereign nation (July 25, 2018, The Los Angeles Times)
U.S. airlines have begun to comply with a Chinese demand that Taiwan be referred to as a part of China.
ZGBriefs | July 19, 2018
Looking Through the Eyes of China’s Surveillance State (July 16, 2018, The New York Times)
Testing the surveillance methods used in the Zhengzhou train station during Spring Festival.
ZGBriefs | July 12, 2018
Love in an Old Climate (July 7, 2018, The World of Chinese) What is it like to face the end of one’s life—and see one’s loved ones grow old—in a country with an imperfect medical system?
ZGBriefs | July 5, 2018
China’s Belt and Road: Exporting Evangelism? (July 4, 2018, The Diplomat) Despite Beijing’s own misgivings about religion and proselytization, it appears to have no qualms in supplying the rest of the world with religious literature.
ZGBriefs | June 28, 2018
Meet the five urban Chinas (June 20, 2018, Brookings) While China’s cities are at the frontier of global growth, many of them are still little known to the world.
ZGBriefs | June 21, 2018
The Hidden History of Shanghai’s Jewish Quarter (June 13, 2018, Atlas Obscura)
When the world refused to let in Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, Shanghai was the only place on earth willing to accept them with or without papers.
ZGBriefs | June 14, 2018
How Bad Is Facebook’s New China Problem? (June 6, 2018, The Atlantic)
A Chinese tech giant with connections to the government appears to be among Facebook’s partners in a data-sharing program.
ZGBriefs | June 7, 2018
Tiananmen Square, A 'Watershed' For Chinese Conversions to Christianity (June 4, 2018, WBUR) It marked the beginning of "a quiet spiritual revolution" among many Chinese, who equated Christianity with modernity.
ZGBriefs | May 31, 2018
Will China finally end its one-child policy? (May 23, 2018, Lowy Institute)
Scrapping the one-child policy won’t undo the damage it’s caused over more than thirty years.