The Atlantic
Meet Yang Jisheng: China's chronicler of past horrors BEIJING—When Yang Jisheng’s study of China’s Great Leap Forward was first published in 2008, it quickly established itself as the most thorough and comprehensive account of a tragedy that many people worldwide had never heard of ... |
The Toronto Star
China's sexual revolution: traditions die as love goes digital “It’s become a part of my life,” admits Liu Qian on the topic of online dating. Over the last decade, her computer and smartphone have helped her to meet a multitude of suitors and lovers. “Your family may have some rules for you, but when you are not home, things are different,” she says. “For example, one-night stands: they’re... 
Al Jazeera
The mega-city noone has heard of HANZHONG, China - With four million people, Hanzhong's population is the rough equivalent of Los Angeles yet outside of China, almost no one has heard of it. Even within the world's most populous country, the city is hardly well-known, its existence often qualified with the sentence: "It's not far from Xian." |
China Radio International
Lee Ranaldo: still sonic Lee Ranaldo is famed for his work with the critically acclaimed noise rock band Sonic Youth. Pitchfork Media hailed their album Daydream Nation as the #1 album of the 80s and Spin magazine staff identified Ranaldo as the #1 guitarist of all time, alongside bandmate Thurston Moore. However, he maintains a strong ... |
Loreli literature showcase
End of a Beijing salon (non-fiction) Zhou Junhua looks over the tattered mess of her hair salon’s stairs, shakes her head once, and then unlocks the door. The glass of the windows and doorframe has all been smashed out, bars and wires now the makeshift barrier. The interior is a dusty shadow of what it had once been. It has been tidied up, but signs of wreckage and age are evident in every corner of the room. Vandals have attacked four times in the last ... 
Beijing Cream
The antecedents of a rodent (fiction) I had a dream last night. Mother says rats don’t dream, but I do. I dreamt I boarded the Line 1 subway and sat on a chair between a businessman with ill-fitting trousers and a young girl with taped-up eyelids. People saw me there and frowned because one little rat was taking up the whole seat. I didn’t get off, even after ... |
China Radio International
Genghis Khan Grassland Extreme Marathon: extreme for a reason Aesop’s fable about the tortoise and the hare connects with the human psyche in a pure and simple way: everyone understands it. But in fact, if you put an actual tortoise and a hare next to each other at the starting line, only a fool would put money on the tortoise. Slow and steady clearly should not win the race. The unrecognized true lesson of the story is that being a cocky, overconfident punk can lose you the race. |
China Radio International
Surviving in the Beijing subways A small man in his wheelchair gently nudges his way into the packed Line 2 subway. People make way for him; he stakes out his space at the end of the car. He pulls out what looks like a slightly undersized car battery, and clumsily wraps the copper wires around the positive and negative terminals .... |
China Radio International
The lives of artists in Songzhuang Art hype in China is sharply focused on Beijing's 798 Art District, though a growing number of artists and visitors are disappointed in how the area has become commercialized. Up-and-coming artists were once drawn to 798 because its disused factory spaces were easily converted to artist studios, and the rents were... |
China Radio International
The changing face of Beijing architecture Between the Capital airport and downtown Beijing lies a lengthy stretch of nondescript landscape consisting of a few trees and buildings. But in the next year or so, a beacon of three rounded forms will be reaching upwards 200 metres, dominating the horizon. It will be Wangjing Soho, one of Beijing’s most ambitious ... 
China Radio International
Helping Beijing's beggars: more than spare change needed On a packed subway car, one begins to discern the sound of an echoey Buddhist song over the rumble of the train. As the sound approaches, passengers can be seen focusing more intently on their cell phone screens and books. Eventually a shriveled woman dressed in shabby grey clothes shuffles into view... |
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