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Matt Isaacs Mother Jones Feb 2016 25min Permalink
China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang.
John Sudworth BBC Dec 2020 25min Permalink
A year ago, he was one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players. Now, after angering China and refusing a pay cut, he has simply vanished.
Rory Smith, Tariq Panja New York Times Oct 2020 Permalink
Nine days in Wuhan.
Peter Hessler New Yorker Oct 2020 30min Permalink
Immigrant struggles in America forged a bond that became even tighter after my mother’s A.L.S. diagnosis. Then, as COVID-19 threatened, Chinese nationalists began calling us traitors to our country.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink
A double life across two cultures.
Diana Xin Electric Lit Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
Ross Andersen The Atlantic Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Earlier this month, while China's leaders were staging a grandiose celebration of their revolution's 40th birthday, thousands of somber Hong Kong residents gathered for a dreary commemoration of their own. Far from the fireworks display in Beijing, Hong Kongers huddled in a rainstorm near the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, singing patriotic songs and listening to mournful poems dedicated to those who died in Tiananmen Square.
Margaret Scott The New York Times Oct 1989 20min Permalink
A conversation with the former player, and new coach, about basketball, Beijing, and being understood.
Vinson Cunningham The New Yorker Apr 2020 20min Permalink
Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there
Jane Qiu Scientific American Apr 2020 30min Permalink
The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.
The weakest link in America’s national security may not be foreign technology but its own people. The story of the single mother who sold out to China.
Mara Hvistendahl 1843 Apr 2020 20min Permalink
Forty-five days of avoiding the coronavirus.
Peter Hessler New Yorker Mar 2020 30min Permalink
How a dating app helped a generation of Chinese come out of the closet.
Yi-Ling Liu New York Times Magazine Mar 2020 30min Permalink
We stopped at a service station where there were old truck drivers, their vehicles festooned with red banners: “All-out war against the virus, weather hard times together.” The drivers wore their masks down around their chins as they smoked. I asked for water at the only open shop, and the assistant pulled his jacket up to cover his mouth before saying “over there.”
Lavender Au New York Review of Books Mar 2020 15min Permalink
When Zulhumar Isaac’s parents disappeared amid a wave of detentions of ethnic minorities, she had to play a perilous game with the state to get them back.
Sarah A. Topol New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 50min Permalink
Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.
Alex W. Palmer New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 50min Permalink
Firsthand accounts of the largest and most ambitious internment drive of a minority group since Nazi Germany, emerging from a region of totalitarian surveillance and control.
Ben Mauk The Believer Oct 2019 1h30min Permalink
Do not assume, just because there is champagne and whiskey and maybe, sometimes, drugs, that these shuckers aren’t also thinking long and hard, and often poetically, about their métier.
Noelle Mateer Deadspin Sep 2019 15min Permalink
The angel saving jumpers on an infamous bridge in China.
Michael Paterniti GQ May 2010 35min Permalink
A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Jun 2019 25min Permalink
Burmese amber offers paleontologists an unprecedented glimpse into the Cretaceous. But it comes from a conflict zone.
Joshua Sokol Science May 2019 20min Permalink
My wife is not a terrorist.
Matt Rivers and Lily Lee CNN May 2019 20min Permalink
For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”
The untold story behind the mysterious disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the world’s biggest movie star.
May Jeong Vanity Fair Mar 2019 25min Permalink