Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

Thanks for joining me this week.

Recommendations

China Stories

David Bandurski and Alex Colville, “Is Xi’s Grip Holding?”

Edison Chen, “After Engagement w/ Orville Schell”

John Delury, “How to Hide a Chinese Empire”

Ross Perlin, “The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia”

Jemimah Steinfeld, “Death by a thousand cuts in Hong Kong”

Rebecca Tan and Pei-Lin Wu, “Chinese association accused of mixing crime and patriotism as it serves Beijing”

Wanderings Around the World

Mouttasem Albarodi, “From Cape to Cairo”

For a first time visitor, you need only visit the UP (Upper Peninsula Michigan) once to fall in love with it. Majestic white pines line the horizon and there is a crispness to the air unlike anywhere else. Between the vast forests and many avenues for outdoor recreation, it is hard to imagine that heavy industry once dominated the area. In reality, it is hard to over estimate the impact that the mining industry had in the Keweenaw. From street names, to generational livelihoods, to the name of the local newspaper (which is still around), the copper industry was once pervasive.

— Paul Gordon, “Keweenaw County’s Echoes of Copper Mining”

Jessie Lau, “Can AI speak the language Japan tried to kill?”

Rachel Monroe, “A Medical-History Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains”

Anne Helen Petersen, “An Obituary for Reading the Internet: Farewell Pocket, 2007 – 2015”

Briana Scott, “A former plantation becomes a space for healing, art and reparative history”

Featured photo: Hitsville, U.S.A., Detroit’s Motown Museum, October 18, 2017.