Apple contractor Foxconn hit with tax and land-use probe in China
The Taiwanese government came to the defense of Foxconn, the company that makes most of the world’s iPhones, with some saying the move from Beijing constitutes election interference.
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Anthony is the managing editor of The China Project. He is based in Beijing, where he publishes poems on his Substack Poetry From Beijing. Follow him @anthonytao
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Talking contemporary Chinese poetry with translator Martin Winter
"Poetry is many things at once. Poetry is where dichotomy dissolves: what you think you know transforms."
A poem about Sanlitun, Beijing
To commemorate World Poetry Day, here’s a roundel — a poem characterized by stylized rhymes and refrains — about the rhymes and refrains of a certain style of Beijing life during a certain era that now feels bygone.