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IOC Blasts Beijing's Empty Protest Parks

epochtimes.com     Aug 22, 2008   161 related          

By Cindy Drukier Epoch Times Staff Aug 21, 2008 The International Olympics Committee (IOC) has spoken up on the issue of the never-been-used Beijing protest parks admitting that Chinese authorities have broken their promise to...                    

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Youthful oldies

ucla.edu     Aug 22, 2008          

China's "old" politicians aren't necessarily entrenched or resistant to reform, writes Tom Plate By Tom Plate Pacific Perspectives Columnist Thursday, August 21, 2008 Beverly Hills, California --- In the obsessive media heat of...                    

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Vishakha N Desai: Do the Olympics herald a new golden age in China?

guardian.co.uk     Aug 21, 2008   2 related          

On August 8 2008, the world watched with awe the amazing spectacle of the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing. There was another time when China dazzled the world at its doorstep: the Tang dynasty (618-907), often thought of...                    

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Warren I. Cohen on China’s Charm Offensive

chinadigitaltimes.net     Aug 21, 2008          

On Truthdig, Warren Cohen reviews two recent books about China: Philip Pan’s Out of Mao’s Shadow, and Joshua Kurlantzick’s Charm Offensive: Two new books— Philip Pan’s “Out of Mao’s Shadow” and Joshua Kurlantzick’s “Charm...                    

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Chinese more likely to own dogs than eat them

apn.co.nz     Aug 21, 2008          

China, as we all know, is subject to a large measure of bureaucracy. But did you know that the Chinese have a special law limiting the size of dogs in Beijing? This wonderful piece of lunacy was revealed to me when I was...                    

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Pride from humiliation

expressindia.com     Aug 21, 2008          

How China’s leaders use history to prod their country towards greatness The Indian Express : When the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, Mao Zedong famously declared, “Ours will no longer be a nation subject to...                    

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The expatriate

freerepublic.com     Aug 22, 2008          

Around the time of the Chinese Revolution in 1949, a small crowd of foreign sympathisers came to help build the Maoist dream. Sixty years later, one of them is still there. Michael Donohue meets Sidney Shapiro. On January 31...                    

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Book Review: Return To The Middle Kingdom by Yuan-Tsung Chen

bloggernews.net     Aug 21, 2008          

I have always considered myself reasonably well read and reasonably well versed in modern history. As soon as I started to read Return To The Middle Kingdom, I realized just how little I really knew about the birth of modern...                    

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Hua Guofeng; Succeeded Mao as Chinese Leader

washingtonpost.com     Aug 21, 2008   126 related          

By Jill Drew and Adam Bernstein Washington Post staff writers Thursday, August 21, 2008; Page B05 Hua Guofeng, an obscure functionary who briefly served as the handpicked successor to Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong, died...                    

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Artist's Pointed Critique Is Barred

opinionjournal.com     Aug 21, 2008   2 related          

Zhang Hongtu's "Bird's Nest, in the Style of Cubism" was supposed to be exhibited during the Beijing Olympic Games, but it was seized by Customs on arrival and denied entry as "unacceptable" for its color, its depiction of the...                    

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