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Worldview: China’s new generation

Trudy Rubin | China | June 20, 2010

The woman in a red tunic and black leggings, like others of China's sophisticated younger generation, strides down a pedestrian shopping street in Chengdu. ...
Worldview: A chance to talk to Chinese

Trudy Rubin | China | May 27, 2010

SHANGHAI, China - The mammoth World Expo 2010, which just opened here, offers a terrific opportunity for U.S. public diplomacy - reaching out to millions of Chinese via our ...
China has begun coming to terms with the environmental cost of industrial boom

Joseph Frolik | China | May 25, 2010

Plain Dealer Chief Editorial Writer Joe Frolik has just returned from a Gatekeeper Editors trip to China, organized by the International Reporting Project, an independent journalism ...
China’s Hobson’s Choice

Rana Foroohar | China | May 24, 2010

Dianchi Lake, in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, used to be one of the Middle Kingdom’s worst environmental disaster zones. Years of industrialization and high-intensity ...
Worldview: NGOs a paradox in today’s China

Trudy Rubin | China | May 23, 2010

KUNMING, China - Late last year, HIV-AIDS activist Thomas Cai was suddenly summoned to appear the next day at a mysterious meeting in Beijing. Cai is the founder and director of the ...

Tiananmen Square

by Christy George | May 21, 2010

I did a lot of reading before I left for China. * Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China - Philip Pan * China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising ...
Dispatch from China: Polluted Lakefront Property

by George Judson | May 21, 2010

Reporter's Notebook A high-end housing development next to one of China's most polluted lakes is just one example of the country's battle between economic progress and the environment On ...
Systemic problems infect Chinese health care

by Christy George | May 19, 2010

Today, we visited a modern and well-equipped teaching hospital in Kunming, in Yunnan Province, on China's southwest border. It has a cardiac care unit, a neonatal intensive care unit and ...
Dispatch from China: Pandas and the Rural Economy

by George Judson | May 18, 2010

Reporter's Notebook Managing editor George Judson is off to Panda country in China's rural city of Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan Province where poor residents are struggling to keep ...
It’s Panda Time

by Trudy Rubin | May 17, 2010

CHENGDU, China -- I’m here with the International Reporting Project to look at environmental issues in China. The most fun stop so far has been a visit to the Chengdu Panda Breeding and ...