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Pearl S. Buck to publish new novel ... 40 years after her death
A new novel by Pearl S. Buck will be published in October, more than 40 years after her death. Buck, best known for her novel "The Good Earth," won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. "The Eternal Wonder" was discovered in storage and will be...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Pulitzer Prize Awards, China, Awards and Prizes
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Bird flu outbreak is spreading fear in China
BEIJING — On a subway car in Shanghai, commotion breaks out when someone spots a live chicken poking its head out of a bag tucked under one of the seats. On a highway in Zhejiang province, a motorist is so panicked by bird droppings landing on her...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Restaurant and Catering Industry, International Organizations, Symptoms, Bird Flu
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China, Middle East: New Fairmonts planned in the next two years
Look to China and the Middle East for new Fairmont hotel projects; both are in the forefront of a development boom launched by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, which plans to develop more than 20 new properties in the next few years in several new destinations....
Tags: UNESCO, Culture, Personal Service, China, Cultural Development
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Revisionism Tokyo-style
This month 75 years ago, the people of Nanking, China's ancient capital city, were in the midst of one of the worst atrocities in history, the infamous Rape of Nanking. The truth of what actually happened is at the center of a bitter dispute between China...
Tags: Slavery, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, World War II (1939-1945), Shinzo Abe, Government
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Pictures in the News | Dec. 13, 2012
FrameworkIn Thursday's Pictures in the News: a scuffle breaks out during the second session of the newly elected Ukrainian parliament in Kiev; Sikh Scots Guards soldier Jatenderpal Singh Bhullar becomes the first guardsman to parade outside Buckingham Palace... -
Japan scrambles jets in dispute with China over islands
BEIJING -- Japan scrambled F-15 fighter jets Thursday in response to a Chinese surveillance plane that flew over contested islands in the East China Sea, ratcheting up a dispute that is becoming increasingly worrisome to the international community....
Tags: Communist Party of China, China, Shinzo Abe, Xi Jinping, Japan
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Kuang-hsun Ting dies at 97; bishop led Protestant church in China
Bishop Kuang-hsun Ting, who was one of the most influential Christian figures in China as the longtime leader of the country's government-sanctioned Protestant church, has died. He was 97. Ting died Nov. 22 at his home in Nanjing, according to...
Tags: Loyola University Chicago, Columbia University, Seminaries, Parties and Movements, St. John's University
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China: A domestic wine industry starts to take root
A few months before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I read a blog post by an Atlantic Monthly correspondent about Chinese wine.
Chinese what?
I grew up outside New York City, where I ate hundreds of pounds of lo mein and pork-fried rice but didn't see, taste...Tags: France, Restaurants, England, French Literature, Wines
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'Flowers of War' goes truly global
In a globalized age, Chinese and American pop culture mix in unexpected ways. Taiwanese singers borrow from hip-hop and R&B. Locked-out NBA players join mainland basketball teams. And Batman — or, at least, the man who plays him — is called...Tags: Movies, Film Festivals, The Dark Knight Rises (movie), World War II (1939-1945), Saving Private Ryan (movie)
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'Flowers of War,' starring Christian Bale, premieres in Beijing
24 FramesDirector Zhang Yimou’s epic new film "The Flowers of War" doesn't open in the United States until Dec. 23, but the movie, starring Christian Bale and set amid the 1930s Japanese occupation of the Chinese city of Nanjing, premiered Sunday in the... -
'Flowers of War's' Zhang Yimou: Censorship limits Chinese films
24 Frames"The Flowers of War": Director Zhang Yimou said that he while he expected total artistic freedom during the making of the movie "The Flowers of War," starring Christian Bale, he also felt Chinese censorship limits filmmakers' options.... -
'Flowers of War's' Zhang Yimou on China's future — and Tom Hanks
24 Frames"The Flowers of War" director Zhang Yimou says China's rapidly growing film market will bring more foreign films into the country and, he hopes, more actors from the United States. Could Tom Hanks be one of them?...
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