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24 days ago

Law comes into effect that critics fear will further erode rights of Uyghurs and Tibetans, as well as allow Beijing to pursue dissidents abroad

A new ethnic unity law has come into effect in China des…

36 days ago

The Chinese-Danish artist wrote nine 10ths of Larsson’s breakout album then got a Grammy nod. It’s a fine springboard for her own revelatory pop

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67 days ago

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, pulled off an ‘incredible double feat’ in succeeding as ‘both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel’

Taiwan Travelogue, a novel writ…

79 days ago

Parents say the insistence on Mandarin in schools is eroding the country’s language and culture right from early childhood

Weeks after a Tibetan-speaking five-year-old started preschool, she had “comp…

3 months ago

I was on the verge of failing Mandarin, when a last-second pivot caused me to utterly fall in love with Korean culture, and send me in a totally new direction

The first time I discovered South Korea w…

4 months ago

Accepting NATO's limits is better than abandoning an alliance that has served vital purposes well for nearly eighty years. And its greatest test is ahead.
The law states that children should be taught Mandarin before kindergarten, until the end of high school.

New legislation will require schools to use Mandarin by default, taking priority over minority ethnic languages such as Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongolian

China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), the stat…

5 months ago

See in the year of the fire horse with a duo of dishes packed full of flavour and symbolism

Christmas is lovely, but my kids think Chinese new year is by far the best holiday. I might be biased, but, …

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