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Recommendations
China Stories
ChinaFile Conversation, “The Dalai Lama’s Succession”
Amy Hawkins, “China’s human rights lawyers speak out, 10 years after crackdown”
Amy Hawkins, with graphics by Harvey Symons and Lucy Swan, “China’s coal heartland fighting for a greener future”
Betsy Joles, “The Chinese Men Seeking Pakistani Christian Wives”
Calvin Quek, “Book Review: Ma Tianjie’s In Search of Green China”
Liam Scott, “For the Uyghur Diaspora, the Taste of Home Brings Both Joy and Sorrow”
Christian Shepherd, “Why do young Chinese join the Communist Party? For many, it’s practical.”
Victor Shih, “Is the Chinese Leadership Turning Inward?”
Meaghan Tobin, “The Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s A.I. Frenzy”
Chun Han Wong, “China’s Communist Party Now Has 100 Million Members. Many Are in It for the Paycheck.”
Wanderings Around the World
Hua Hsu, “What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?”
. . . the idea of politicians controlling the terms on which the past is written may strike us as an affront to democracy — something we associate with authoritarian regimes elsewhere. Yet, the sanctity of archival practices was not part of the founding ethos of the United States. Even as early Americans across the hemisphere turned against the monarchies of Europe at the end of the 18th century, independence did not result in any widely accepted belief in the new United States that the public should have ready access to government archives — or that the management of these archives should be free from political manipulation.
— Asheesh Kapur Siddique, “Scratching the Record”
Sebastian Smee, “I road-tripped the Midwest’s best art museums. It was anything but an escape.”
Sophia Solano, “Every last word: One woman’s quest for the full Smithsonian experience”
Rohan Venkat, “Tariq Thachil on the challenges of studying India in the US”
Featured photo: The pie tin used to bake the world’s first “largest cherry pie,” in May 1976, on display in Charlevoix, MI, June 19, 2022.
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