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An impossible hike in Western China.
Robert Macfarlane Places Journal Oct 2012 Permalink
Peter Hessler is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
“It may have helped that I didn’t have a lot of ideas about China. You know, it was sort of a blank slate in my mind. …I wasn’t a reporter when I went to Fuling, but I was thinking like a reporter or even like a sociologist: try to respond to what you see and what you hear, and not be too oriented by things you’ve heard from others or things you may have read. Be open to new perceptions of the place or of the people.”
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Sep 2015 Permalink
On the religious revival underway in China.
Ian Johnson New York Times Magazine Nov 2010 Permalink
A season with the American Football League of China.
Christopher Beam The New Republic Apr 2014 30min Permalink
An alleged rape and one woman’s futile quest for justice in modern China.
john Garnaut, Sanghee Liu Foreign Policy Nov 2012 10min Permalink
A lifelong Jehovah’s Witness moves to China to proselytize.
Amber Scorah The Believer Feb 2013 20min Permalink
America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.
James Fallows The Atlantic Nov 2010 35min Permalink
The world’s fastest growing economy isn’t China; it’s the “unheralded alternative economic universe of System D” aka the $10 trillion global black market.
Robert Neuwirth Foreign Policy Oct 2011 10min Permalink
On former CIA agent John T. Downey, who spent more than 20 years in China as the longest held American captive of war.
Andrew Burt Slate Sep 2014 2h10min Permalink
On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.
Wells Tower GQ Apr 2011 25min Permalink
Without fanfare—indeed, with some misgivings about its new status—China has just overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy.
Joseph E. Stieglitz Vanity Fair Dec 2014 10min Permalink
An army of Western luxury-lifestyle purveyors flock to China to teach the country’s new billionaires how to act rich.
Devin Friedman GQ Jan 2015 Permalink
How KFC brought fried chicken to China and Africa as U.S. sales slumped.
Diane Brady Businessweek Mar 2012 10min Permalink
How the China National Tobacco Corp., which manufactures 2.5 trillion cigarettes per year, came to make more money than Apple.
Andrew Martin Businessweek Dec 2014 15min 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
Jiayang Fan is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her latest article is a "How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda."
"I think considering the unusual shape of our lives—the lives of my mother and I—from bare subsistence to one of the richest enclaves in America … it made me think about what the value of existence is. ... It made me wonder, What should a person be? And how should a person be? And being a writer has been a lifelong quest to answer those questions."
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Sep 2020 Permalink
The rise of an expensive, experimental stem-cell treatment in China and the medical tourism it attracts.
Andrés Grippo Matter Jan 2014 15min Permalink
The world’s population is rapidly getting older. How China and other countries stocked with young workers are taking advantage.
Ted C. Fishman New York Times Magazine Oct 2010 10min Permalink
One expert warns that policies advanced by the think tank could lead to military conflict with China.
Jay Cassano, Alex Kotch Sludge Jun 2018 25min Permalink
On the meeting of shaggy-haired American ping pong ace Glenn Cowan and Chinese master Zhuang Zedong (who died this week), and how their fleeting friendship thawed relations between the twon nations during the U.S. team’s historic 1971 tour of China.
David Davis Los Angeles Aug 2006 10min Permalink
Lunch with recycling tycoon Chen Guangbiao, the self-described “Most Influential Person of China,” to discuss his interest in buying The New York Times.
Jessica Pressler New York Jan 2014 10min Permalink
In the shallow reefs of Ayungin Shoal sits a rusted-out ship manned by eight Filipino soldiers whole sole purpose is to keep China in check.
Jeff Himmelman, Ashley Gilbertson New York Times Oct 2013 30min Permalink
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
Team America voyages to Jordan’s King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center to compete against top-seeded China and other squads in challenges based on counter-terrorism scenarios.
Josh Eells New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 20min 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