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Melinda Liu
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Jun 2, 2009 04:09 PM
As the anniversary of the June 4 bloodshed looms, Newsweek's Duncan Hewitt explains why China's younger generation doesn't fit the usual stereotypes. Hewitt, who is author of "Getting Rich First: Life in a Changing China", argues that understanding Chinese...
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Melinda Liu
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May 20, 2009 06:09 PM
Jennifer Conrad reports on a new kind of martial arts studio: I'm sitting in an upstairs loft, watching a student practice tai chi in the open studio below. In the back loft, Feng Zhongyun works on a large ink painting destined to hang in Beijing's Hilton...
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Melinda Liu
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May 15, 2009 03:13 AM
Lauren Hilgers reports on how fame has affected the life of a child whose heroics during the Sichuan quake made him a celebrity: Like most people around the world, I first saw Lin Hao on television, gripping Yao Ming’s hand as the Chinese Olympic team...
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Newsweek
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May 13, 2009 09:11 AM
Ever met a cool Dane? Read on. This item is from Nick Mackie, who was the first -- and currently is the only -- Western reporter to be based in post-1949 Chongqing, deep in China’s interior. This area is China’s “Wild West” and Mackie often hits the road...
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Melinda Liu
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May 11, 2009 10:58 PM
For the May 12 anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province, Lauren Hilgers took a tour near Ground Zero. Her report on "quake tourism": Xiao Li is a dealer in disaster. A skinny, twitchy, 25-year-old, he expertly negotiates the tragedies...
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Melinda Liu
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May 5, 2009 07:26 PM
Is the pressure on gay men to marry hastening the spread of HIV? Jennifer Conrad reports: Clad in white dresses and tuxedos, same-sex couples posed for portraits on Beijing's touristy Qianmen thoroughfare on Valentine's Day. Although the event was staged,...
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Newsweek
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Apr 29, 2009 04:23 PM
by Melinda Liu. American tastes dominated the world's automotive market for a century, but all that's changing now. Today it's the increasingly well-to-do Chinese car-buyer that industry wants to woo and win, thanks to this incredible fact—China has,...
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Melinda Liu
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Apr 24, 2009 07:18 AM
Hat’s off to China’s media – both the orthodox and online community – for trashing a sporting success story that seemed too good to be true -- and was! No, I'm not talking about those baby-faced Chinese gymnasts’ birth certificates; that was last year....
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Melinda Liu
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Apr 22, 2009 07:09 PM
Jennifer Conrad reports on Earth Day plans in Beijing: Tomorrow night, for Earth Day, eco-conscious Beijingers will gather on the roof deck of a local bar for an organic BBQ and screening of a documentary about young environmentalists. "Despite China...
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Newsweek
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Apr 19, 2009 10:35 AM
By Melinda Liu and Nick Mackie. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is tantamount to a rock star in this gathering of financial-policy wonks. His speech to the plenary session of the Boao Forum for Asia -- focused on the theme "Managing Beyond Crisis" -- was meant...
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Melinda Liu
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Apr 18, 2009 05:26 PM
Among the financial bigshots at this weekend's Boao forum is Lord Brittan -- Leon to friends -- who goes way back with Chinese authorities. During the 1990's, on behalf of the EU, then Sir Leon negotiated much of Beijing's WTO entry terms. Now he's non-executive...
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Melinda Liu
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Apr 16, 2009 02:12 PM
Welcome to Hainan, a tropical island where hundreds of CEO's, bankers, ministers, consultants and journalists are converging for the Boao Forum for Asia, an annual gathering with ambitions to become Asia's Davos. The crowd is eager for signs of a Chinese...
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Melinda Liu
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Apr 1, 2009 07:21 PM
Take a couple of tech-savvy American college grads, 200 million poverty-stricken Chinese, the internet, a digital camera, and a healthy dose of altruism. What have you got? Nick Mackie reports from rural Sichuan on an innovative scheme to lend money to...
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Melinda Liu
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Mar 30, 2009 07:44 PM
The mood in china appears to be reaching a tipping point, as its normally bland leaders abandon cautious diplo-speak under the pressures of the global financial crisis. First, they blamed American capitalism for the crisis and Premier Wen Jiabao publicly...
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Melinda Liu
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Mar 27, 2009 10:36 PM
Once again, it appears some bureaucrats in the Chinese Communist Party’s apparatus are bent on keeping a lid on facts and treating the public with contempt. Yet again , we’re talking about an illness that’s killing kids. Nick Mackie vents from Chongqing:...
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