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Recent Goodreads Reviews
Recommendations
China Stories
Joyce Jiang and James Legge, “Young Chinese flock to ‘academic pubs’ as space for free expression shrinks”
Dalia Parete, “For Mang Mang, No Wall is Unbreakable” — China Media Project interview with the publishers of Mang Mang 莽莽, a Chinese-language diaspora publication that focuses on gender, identity, and activism
Edward Wong and Ana Swanson, “Is Trump More Flexible on China Than His Hawkish Cabinet Picks Suggest?”
Wanderings Around the World
Max Bultman, “How a minor-league equipment manager became a beloved ‘heart-and-soul’ piece of the Red Wings”
Dyer had one mission in mind: to find a company willing to manufacture sticks and protective equipment specifically built for women. “Coming from USA Hockey, we just had hockey pants that the men wore. They were heavy and weren’t good for performance or for protection. So that became my motto, performance and protection. Protection because our equipment kept the padding in place where players needed it, and performance because it fit and it didn’t shift all over.”
— Ian Kennedy, “Ice in their veins: the women who changed ice hockey forever”
Karishma Mehrotra, “How a change in rice farming unexpectedly made India’s air so much worse”
After 1961, the Indian census did not count languages with any rigor; it mainly published the names of all the languages that people said they spoke. The last one, from 2011, registered around nineteen thousand “mother tongues”—a plain absurdity. In the world’s most populous country, no one knows how many languages are living, or how many have died.
— Samanth Subramanian, “Should a Country Speak a Single Language?”
Featured photo: Shanghai’s Pudong district, November 8, 2018.
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 
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