Life sentence

Dawut has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and Cambridge, and was an associate professor at Xinjiang University. She was also a member of the Chinese Communist Party for 30 years. But that did not stop the government from detaining her in 2017 and sentencing her to life behind bars on trumped-up secession charges.

Her daughter and scholars around the world are outraged.

They talk about the legacy of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s China tour, their continuing connection with China, and their concert performances in Chapel Hill, performed to the day on the two closing nights of that historic tour 50 years ago.

It’s in response to a controversial move to serve “ready meals” (预制菜 yùzhì cài) at schools across the country instead of freshly cooked dishes.

Ready meals are not new in China. But they have recently come under greater scrutiny from disgruntled Chinese parents, many of whom think such processed food is downright dangerous.

This gives us our Phrase of the Week is: Ill-gotten gains (捞油水 lāo yóushuǐ).

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reported 103 PLA aircraft operating near Taiwan on September 18.

Lyle Goldstein, Director of Asia Engagement Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank, told The China Project: “The Chinese want to make sure Taiwan’s pilots are stressed out, tired, that their budgets are spent in this way.”

He added: “If you really want to accomplish surprise against your adversary, you start to do regular sets of large-scale exercises against your adversary and create a false sense of security.”

The reggae-inflected album’s title phonetically suggests the title of the Qing-dynasty short story collection Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (聊斋志异 liáozhāi zhì yì).

Despite all the repression of recent years, the P.R.C. can still produce some interesting cultural stuff.

A teenager’s death has put the spotlight on the Chinese government’s efforts to combat cyberbullying.

Chinese Internet star Li Ziqi has made a comeback, but can she defeat the imitators who arose in her absence?

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