Video: Filmmaker Returns Home to Site of Sichuan Earthquake to Tell Town’s Tale
Five years after the Sichuan earthquake, ‘The Reborn of Beichuan’ follows the journey of two families from a devastated Chinese city as they try to restore normalcy to their lives and struggle to move past the loss of their children.
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Video: Iron Man 3’s China Push is Sign of Things to Come for Hollywood
ChinaFile Managing Editor Jonathan Landreth tells Huffington Post Live he expects Hollywood producers such as those that made Iron Man 3 to continue to look for ways to tap into China’s growing moviegoing market.
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Video: Christopher Hill Says North Korea’s Leaders ‘Don’t Know What They Want’
The chief U.S. envoy to the Six Party Talks reflects on what’s behind North Korea’s latest round of provocations and how much China can be engaged to help quell the crisis.
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‘Amazing’ Interactive Map Shows China is Only One Part of Apple Supply Chain
Produced by Asia Society’s ChinaFile website, the map allows readers to view the global scope of Apple’s suppliers in “a more tangible, real way.”
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Photos: Prominent Journalists, Scholars Turn Out for Asia Society’s ChinaFile Launch
In pictures: a roster of distinguished panelists and guests celebrate the launch of ChinaFile, a new online magazine from Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations.
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Video: Six NY Times Correspondents Share Half-Century of China Experience
Six former and current New York Times China correspondents gathered at Asia Society New York to discuss what’s changed, what’s stayed the same, and where it’s all headed.
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Video: Appalachian Coal-Mining Tune Come to LIfe in Rural China
Watch and listen: Nashville musician Abigail Washburn performs the folk classic “Black Waters” in the context of the Center on U.S.-China Relations’ Coal+Ice exhibition.
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Video: Sensors Strapped to Kites Search for Clues in Beijing’s Dirty Air
Two U.S. graduate students design kites with sensors that can easily monitor Beijing’s air quality and send data back to the people on the ground.
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Politics and the Chinese Language: What Mo Yan’s Defenders Get Wrong
The New York Review of Books’ Perry Link re-enters the energetic debate over the awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to Chinese novelist Mo Yan.
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Why Critics of Chinese Nobel Prize-Winner Mo Yan Are Just Plain Wrong
Nobel Prize-winner Mo Yan may have made some disappointing choices in public life, argues Charles Laughlin, but his fiction wasn’t written to serve a political agenda.
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Photo of the Day: Shy But Poised in Tamil Nadu, India
Four young girls smile for the camera in Tamil Nadu, India on February 18, 2012. (...
At Women’s Wear Daily’s Beauty CEO Summit 2012, Revlon head Alan Ennis argued that China is now past its prime as a place for manufacturing.
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