The Yangtze River paddlefish is extinct
The China Project illustration by Derek Zheng The Yangtze (ιΏζ± chΓ‘ng jiΔng) is the longest river in Asia, and the longest in the world to...
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Asian airports screen travelers for mystery virus
The number of people infected with a βmysterious viral pneumoniaβ in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has climbed to 59, and at least one patient had symptoms as early as mid-December.
Destination: Mars β Chinaβs biggest rocket blasts off again
After a two and a half year delay, China's Long March 5 rocket is now flying again, after a successful launch on December 27. The rocket will be critical for China to send a lunar to the Moon and a rover to Mars next year, and to set the China Space Station into orbit in 2022.
I Save You in the Clouds
How should the self struggle against forgetting? What becomes of a life after itβs gone, if not for other people’s memories of it? Yangyang Cheng...
Scientists object to DNA collection from Uyghurs
As part of the Orwellian project of surveillance and control of Muslim ethnic minorities like Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Chinese authorities have systematically collected vast amounts of DNA samples and other biometric data. Why did Beijing want all that biometric data? The New York Times has revealed at least one compelling reason: βChinese scientists are trying to find a way to use a DNA sample to create an image of a personβs face.β
Beijing district CDC director spreads homophobia for World AIDS Day
Shocking homophobic comments were made by the director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijingβs Dongcheng District, who was subsequently lambasted on social media.
Talking to my mother about Hong Kong
I wonder how much my mother has been projecting our tortured relationship onto the events in Hong Kong over the past several months, waiting for...
Traditional Chinese medicine schools kicked out of global directory because they teach TCM, not medicine
Although traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is very popular, and has been strongly supported by the government for decades, there are also many Chinese people who believe it is superstitious, unscientific twaddle. The debate about TCM within China has been reignited by the removal of eight Chinese medical schools that specialize in TCM from the World Directory of Medical Schools.
A Chinese economic zone in space
China has grand ambitions in outer space, including becoming the second country after the U.S. to land a Mars rover in 2020, operating a full space station by 2022, and building a research station on the Moon by approximately 2030. Officials added one more ambitious goal last week: To set up a $10 trillion Cislunar Economic Zone (ε°ζη©Ίι΄η»ζ΅εΊ dΓ¬ yuΓ¨ kΕngjiΔn jΔ«ngjΓ¬ qΕ«), or Moon-based economic sector, by 2050.