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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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Chris Taylor
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Touchdown, strap in
Under the cover of darkness, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes rumors reality in a move sure to rile China no end.
Aug 2, 2022
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Chris Taylor
'I’m Uyghur by Blood, Chinese by Birth, Taiwanese by Choice'
Exiled student leader Wu'er Kaixi – or Uerkesh Davlet in Uyghur – speaks to ChinaDiction on identity and exile in a China-dominated world.
Jun 4, 2022
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Chris Taylor
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Saint Jim: case closed
In the end, there was no clemency—clemency for running a newspaper that provoked and took something more than chances.
Feb 27, 2025
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Chris Taylor
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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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Chris Taylor
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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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Chris Taylor
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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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Chris Taylor
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Beyond 'Banality'
Leaked documents and photographs from former East Turkestan (the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) coincide with a UN visit to the region and suggest…
May 25, 2022
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Chris Taylor
China's Other Voices
Wu'er Kaixi (Uerkesh Davlet), student leader of the protests in 1989, today Secretary General of the Taiwan Parliamentary Human Rights Commission calls…
Jun 4, 2023
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Chris Taylor
Kafka at the Gates of Dawn
A collection of essays by sinologist Perry Link is a could-be autobiography, but thankfully it tells us far more about the bizarre cultural evolution of…
Mar 9, 2025
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Chris Taylor
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Tangled up in red
Huawei, telecoms, the Party, and Mao-nostalgia 'cat tax'
Jan 27, 2025
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Chris Taylor
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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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Chris Taylor
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