The higher they fly, the harder they fall

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The higher they fly, the harder they fall

眼看他起高楼，眼看他楼塌了

yǎn kàn tā qǐ gāo lóu, yǎn kàn tā lóu tā le

Here are all the language details and links to articles and stories about Hui’s rise and fall, and here is the Phrase of the Week’s enormous archive.

The two worked with two other reporters on a fascinating expose, funded by the Pulitzer Center, of China’s tobacco monopoly, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (or China Tobacco), and how it has managed to be both the biggest seller of tobacco in the world — and also the effective regulator of tobacco laws in China.

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The U.S. is anxious over China’s expanding presence in the Latin America-Caribbean region through trade and investment under the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as a growing ideological alignment with Beijing’s worldview among many of the region’s largest countries. But the region’s ties with China are undergoing profound change: Listen to the China-Global South Podcast.

When Rozi resurfaced in January 2018, it was in a Chinese court in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital, where a judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison for trying to “split” the country and spread “extremist ideas” among schoolchildren.

For Banned Books Week, we highlight Yalqun Rozi’s life and the many books he wrote and edited which are now banned in China.

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The lessons to be learned from Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China. Red Star Over China was a massive coup for the young American journalist Edgar Snow. The book is still a gripping read, but it is also an abject lesson in the pitfalls of access in China, Paul French writes in this week’s Ultimate China Bookshelf.

Go (围棋 wéiqí) is a checkers-like board game usually played on a 19 x 19 square grid with black and white circular pieces. It has been played in China for several thousand years, and is still very popular as a TV spectator sport. In recent years, internet livestreamers commenting on Go matches, including Zhan Ying’s, have grown the youth audience for the game.

And now Zhan is changing Chinese ideas about beauty with her recent victory in the annual “Goddess” competition, which until now has always been won by actresses and pop stars.

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Censorship poses significant challenges for the popular genre of queer audio drama in China, but the subculture has proved to be resilient and adaptive.

China has another Moon mission, and it’s opening the door to collaboration.

50 years ago the Philidelphia Orchestra made history as the first U.S. symphony in the P.R.C. Now they’re getting ready to go back.

How can international companies still do business with the world’s second-largest economy yet avoid working with restricted entities? Are there even more rules and regulations in the pipeline?

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