“Apparently, Mao didn’t like fruit. It was an easy re-gift.”
China
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Viral, Yet Ephemeral: Death On Your Cellphone
China’s WeChat app has become a place to both mourn death and share graphic videos of the moment itself.
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End Notes
How is a death mourned after it’s gone viral? China, WeChat, and the public consumption of private tragedy.
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The Fuzzy Chinese Face That Transcends Political Divisions
Carl Swanson investigated the Panda Ball — a hoity toity event geared to raising $50 million to ensconce a pair of pandas in New York’s Central Park.
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When Beauty Brings Dishonor: Beauty Shopping With My Mother, A Former Cultural Revolution Red Guard
In Racked, Noël Duan — A former beauty editor — reflects on the differences between the definition of beauty in America and in China during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, where an “unadorned woman was a symbol of liberation from a patriarchal capitalist system.”
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Beauty Shopping With My Mother, A Former Cultural Revolution Red Guard
A former beauty editor reflects on the differences between the definition of beauty in America and in China during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, where an “unadorned woman was a symbol of liberation from a patriarchal capitalist system.”
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In China, Searching for Mysterious Gaps in the Family Tree
China’s revolution made it difficult for Chinese abroad to stay in contact with their families. Now many in the diaspora are searching for their roots.
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To Consider Myself a Human Being
How China remembers the Cultural Revolution.
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Speed-Dating in Shanghai: Finding a Mate at the ‘Love and Marriage Expo’
Looking for love in all the wrong places? Zheping Huang attempts to find a wife at the Love and Marriage Expo in Shanghai, China.
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Can Americans Learn to Love China’s Favorite Booze?
Mitch Moxley writes in California Sunday magazine about baijiu, China’s national drink.