Revisiting the Opening Ceremony Scandal
By Diana Jou - Aug 15th, 2008 at 1:50 pmEarlier in the week there were reports that the little girl who sang “Ode to the Motherland” during the Olympic opening ceremonies was switched for…
Posts Tagged ‘China’
Underage Gymnasts at the Olympics?
By Lisha Arino - Aug 15th, 2008 at 11:04 amWhen I first saw the Chinese gymnastics team, I, like many others, was taken aback by how young they looked–were they really supposed to be…
Is Bush Right on China?
By Jamie Henn - Aug 12th, 2008 at 10:37 amIt hurts to say this, but I have to admit I was actually a little impressed with our president Sunday night.
Bush was on the…
This Week: The Nation Continues to Be Irrelevant
By Saxon Baird - Aug 8th, 2008 at 2:41 pmThe articles filling up my Google Reader from The Nation are tempting me to delete the magazine from my feeds. This well-established publication isn’t providing…
The Olympics’ Human Toll
By Haley Swenson - Aug 8th, 2008 at 10:03 amAs an avid sports fan–no, make that a lover of pretty much any skillful competition–I should be looking forward to the start of the Olympic…
2008 Olympics: No Sex, Money or God
By Saxon Baird - Jul 23rd, 2008 at 2:32 pmThe Guardian has an interesting piece today on a government campaign to discourage resident of Beijing from discussing certain subjects with foreign visitors during the…
From China to Guantánamo, With Love
By Masoud Shafaee - Jul 7th, 2008 at 9:15 amIt emerged last week that harsh interrogation tactics being used by U.S. military and CIA personnel in Guantánamo Bay were copied, verbatim, from a 1957…
Please Vote For Me
By Bradley Portnoy - Jun 25th, 2008 at 11:40 amThere’s no doubt that China is in the spotlight right now: the world’s most populous country (and its booming economy) will step onto the world’s…
Factory Painters in China
By Diana Jou - Jun 9th, 2008 at 4:00 pm(Courtesy oilpainting-dafen.com)
Near Shenzhen, China, there is a burgeoning artist’s village in Dafen that is responsible for 60 percent of the world’s reproductions of oil…
