Recommendations
China Stories
Amy Hawkins, “‘Garbage time of history’: Chinese state media pushes back on claims country has entered a new epoch”
Amy Hawkins, “Wall Street Journal fires new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association”
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, “Code of Silence”
Timothy McLaughlin, “When the Press Turns Its Back on Press Freedom”
John Ruwitch, “5 years ago they protested for freedom in Hong Kong. They want us to remember them”
Wanderings Around the World
Hannah Beech, with photographs by Daniel Berehulak, “The Poet Who Commands a Rebel Army”
Hannah Borenstein, “Afraid of an Inspiring Olympics Story”
Adrian Burgos, Jr., “Josh Gibson Topples Ty Cobb? The Power of History, Numbers, and Nostalgia”
Linda Holmes, “Looking for a comfort watch? Turn on baseball”
Georgi Kantchev, “Evan Gershkovich Sentenced to 16 Years in Russian Prison After Wrongful Conviction”
Julian Lucas, “How Lonnie G. Bunch III Is Renovating the ‘Nation’s Attic’”
Motoko Rich, with photographs and video by Noriko Hayashi, “The Book Bag That Binds Japanese Society”
Ada Wordsworth, “Uzbek Uncertainties”
Featured photo: “Parliament of Rats,” created by graffiti artist Wimbo during the AAS-in-Asia conference at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, July 9, 2024.
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 
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