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‘Unprecedented hurdles’ for foreign journalists in China
The foreign press corp in China, still coping with the visa cancellations of early 2020, says that Beijing has only dialed up its harassment of journalists in China, including of Chinese staff at international news bureaus.
Disturbing video of chained-up mother in rural China sparks outrage, calls for investigation
She seems unable to communicate and unable to give consent for anything, but she has eight children. What’s going on?
2022 The China Project Women’s Conference
The 2022 The China Project Women’s Conference will unite the women leading the two countries whose relationship will shape the modern world.
The rise of Chinese athleisure wear: Junyi raises millions to take on the world
Junyi, a Chinese cross-border sports retailer, recently bagged over $15 million in a funding round. Its subsidiary, Baleaf, is an athleisure company with zero indicators that it is a Chinese brand.
Inside the Olympic bubble at Beijing 2022
Much has been made about the Beijing Olympics organizing committee setting up a “closed loop” for the Games. What’s it really like? Our reporter reports from inside, where shuttle schedules are unreliable and hotel rooms are too hot. (The internet isn’t censored, at least.)
Editor’s note for Friday, January 28, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: China’s ambassador to the U.S., Qin Gang, warned Washington over Taiwan and defended Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang; Chinese regulators are seeking to allay international bankers’ fears, and separately, cracking down on deepfakes; companies are not going to boycott the Olympics.
The system has failed society’s most vulnerable — phrase of the week
Chinese internet users were full of sympathy for a migrant worker whose movements were made public for COVID contact tracing, and used a colloquial phrase to describe his plight.
Beijing 2022: China’s first steps to becoming a winter sports powerhouse
One week before the torch is lit at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Mark Dreyer reflects on what these Games will mean for China — both its athletes and its now-turbocharged winter sports industry.
Visual indigestion
The riotous canvases of Wang Ziping
China halts 60 IPOs amid accounting fraud cases
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‘Delicious Romance,’ with its women- and LGBTQ-driven stories, is a surprise hit in China
Not your typically shallow Chinese romance drama.
Editor’s note for Thursday, January 27, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Is the World Trade Organization back in play? The European Union launched a case against China at the WTO over Beijing’s trade pressure on Lithuania. Meanwhile, the trade body ruled in China’s favor in a decade-long dispute with the U.S. Separately, U.S. senators urged the Biden administration to act after a new report found that Chinese censorship had hurt companies like Google and Apple.
Beijing throws weight behind Moscow: China-Russia weekly update
China’s foreign minister told his U.S. counterpart that Russia has legitimate security concerns in Ukraine. But could a Putin military move delay an enormous Siberian gas pipeline deal?
The psychology of political discontent in China
As many as 8% of Chinese citizens will say on a survey that they are unhappy with the central government. What do they have in common? Rory Truex, a scholar at Princeton University, drew on extensive survey research to find some fascinating common threads in their personality traits.
Evergrande promises a restructuring plan in six months
After offshore bondholders threaten to take legal action, the indebted property developer finally promises a plan to restructure.
Why ecommerce livestreaming will survive Beijing’s crackdowns
China’s ecommerce livestreaming industry is now a mainstay in Chinese consumers’ lives. But the government’s latest scourge against celebrity influencers has thrown the booming ecosystem into uncharted territory.
‘Call me by my real name’: A court case begins over Taiwanese indigenous names
A court case that began this week in Taipei touches on the contradiction between Taiwan’s goal of creating a multicultural society and the entrenched structures of an overwhelmingly majority-Han society.
Chinese censors give ‘Fight Club’ new ending to make police win, angering fans and inspiring memes
Although there’s no evidence that the editing was ordered by Chinese authorities, many critics pinned the blame on the complex — and sometimes arbitrary — censorship rules in China, which discourage the release of cultural products with portrayals of nudity, violence, and other intense material.
China moves forward with gene-edited crops to boost food security, decrease foreign dependence
China is preparing to open up its farmland to genetically enhanced crops as one part of Beijing’s push for more advanced agriculture and self-sufficiency in food supply.
The death of woman Wang and the life of Jonathan Spence
An extraordinary book by an extraordinary historian.
