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China's First and Last Great Wall
The engineers and eccentrics who gave printed voice to Chinese characters had no idea just how much puff an antiquated hieroglyphic script still had…
Jul 30
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Chris Taylor
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Pay Dirt
'In 2013, plans for new cities and new districts were sufficient to house about 3.4 billion people, more than twice China’s total population.'
Jul 16
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Chris Taylor
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The Chinese Babel
Cantonese – spoken in Hong Kong and Guangdong Province by as many people as speakers of Italian – is widely considered by linguists to be as different…
Jun 23
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What's so funny about peace, love and engineering?
Jan 3
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Touchdown, strap in
Aug 2, 2022
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Chris Taylor
'I’m Uyghur by Blood, Chinese by Birth, Taiwanese by Choice'
Jun 4, 2022
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Chris Taylor
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Saint Jim: case closed
Feb 27, 2025
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Finding Freedom in Chains
Mar 9
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Ghost Nations
Jul 16, 2025
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Liberation by Diktat
How Moscow's money, Mao's myth machine and an unlikely coterie of Americans legitimized an unpopular revolution
Jun 21
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Finding Freedom in Chains
For the nimble, the strong of spirit, even China's 24-7 surveilled internet provides the marginalized with paths to community and expression; the…
Mar 9
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The Future Then And Now
Anne Stevenson-Yang's been a participant and observer of the China enigma long enough to know that regime survival trumps all—forget the satisfaction of…
Jan 27
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What's so funny about peace, love and engineering?
Dan Wang's bestseller celebrates a miracle run by engineers—but what if a century of borderline-mythological ideology is running the show?
Jan 3
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Ghost Nations
Three books, three eras. Is it about time we called Taiwan what it is. China won't like it. But perhaps it's time we stopped trying to please China.
Jul 16, 2025
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Making Revolution
A new biography may yield few secrets about Xi Jinping, but it speaks volumes about the party that forged father and son
Jul 5, 2025
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The Gift of Fire
China's giddy ascent to superpower rival of the US is one of five-year plans, wholesale IP theft and vast spy rings—in the pursuit of profits, Apple…
Jun 10, 2025
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