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chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Aug 1, 2008
In the Nation, Christian Parenti reports from Daba, Chongqing, about how China’s disenfranchised farmers and workers are coping: Da Ba is in many ways a typical Chinese village. Its center has a few blocks of tightly …
Also tagged: politics, society, capitalism, land rights, migrant workers, labor rights, social unrest
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook - Jul 26, 2008
Xiaolu Guo was born in a fishing village in southern China in 1973 and now divides her time between London and Beijing. In both fiction and in film, her work traces the paths that young people from China's countryside …
Also tagged: london, internet, china, baby, sundance film festival, beijing, shanghai, an, yangtze river, qingdao, sichuan province, wenzhou, zhejiang province, wei yu, xiaolu guo, chongqing technical college
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific - Jul 20, 2008
BEIJING -- As she read the words scrawled in black spray paint on her restaurant's metal security gate, Cheng Xingfeng vowed she would not yield.
Also tagged: united nations, pakistan, japan, china, the, of, beijing, hard, survivors, quake, lessons, for, indian ocean, over, styrofoam, wen jiabao, sichuan province, shanxi province, sichuan, starting, peking university, mianyang, beichuan qiang autonomous county, khalid malik, industrial bureau, cheng xingfeng
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Jul 9, 2008
Some broadcasters have always worked in high definition -- they didn't have access to the technological wonder, but they did seem blessed with the gift of natural communication, erudite but accessible. Ted Koppel is a …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Jun 21, 2008
NEW YORK -- Strolling north on Sixth Avenue, on a slate gray Sunday afternoon, Yung Chang spies the vintage movie marquee on the arty IFC Center:
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Bookstores, book reviews and events in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland - washingtonpost.com - May 23, 2008
THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric
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chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - May 17, 2008
Geoffrey York reports in the Globe and Mail: With their expensive Mercedes-Benz sports vehicles, the wealthy members of the Chongqing car club are normally accustomed to tooling around town in their luxury cars and …
Also tagged: society, 2008 sichuan earthquake
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific - May 13, 2008
BEIJING, May 13 -- A powerful earthquake hit central China on Monday, killing nearly 10,000 people, as schools and other buildings collapsed across eight provinces and tremors shook buildings as far away as Bangkok.
Also tagged: china, kills, in, beijing, xinhua news agency, quake, bangkok, thousands, u s geological survey, hu jintao, wen jiabao, sichuan province, chengdu, three gorges dam, national public radio inc, liu songjie
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China earthquake: Shaken in Beijingtelegraph.co.uk » blogs.telegraph.co.uk Blog Listings - May 13, 2008 The best laid plans... I had many story ideas to compose this week, all on refreshingly cheerful subjects, and was just getting some things out of the way first. A rescuer searches for survivors among the ruble of a … Also tagged: chengdu, china earthquake |
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific - Apr 6, 2008
BEIJING -- When the Summer Olympics open to great fanfare in August, an estimated 500,000 foreign tourists will be here rooting for their home teams. The Chinese will be cheering, too. They've been trained for it.
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