Tag Archives: Phoenix Weekly

Muckracking author Shi Dongbing accused of fabricating his “inside information”

Shi Dongbing says he helped bust Shenzhen mayor Xu Zongheng. But now questions are being raised about the truthfulness of the information in his many history books.

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Building a new Old City in Kashgar

Phoenix Weekly has a cover story on the redevelopment of Kashgar’s old town. Also, the ‘This is Xinjiang’ blog has some photos of the totally soulless designs for new communities.

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Three decades after the Sino-Vietnamese War

Phoenix Weekly has an extensive cover feature on the Sino-Vietnamese War.

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Phoenix Weekly gives Politburo member a promotion

Phoenix Weekly misidentifies Politburo member Li Yuanchao. Some schoolgirls in Shaanxi are rumored to have had their kidneys harvested.

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Publishing a “PRC historical library” in Hong Kong

Phoenix Weekly talks to Ho Pin (何频), founder of Mirror Books.

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Modern Chinese oil painting seeks record price

A painting of Master Xu Yun (Empty Clouds) is advertised in Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊) for US$18.40 million.

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Seventy years after the Great Purge

Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊) has a cover feature on the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s Great Purge, and a report on Burma’s Shan State (掸邦) and Yawd Serk (约色).

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China’s nuclear black market

Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊) for October 2007.

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Controversy over Chinese textbook revisions

Translation of a forum rant against a new Chinese history textbook. some responses to that rant, and a Phoenix Weekly article on China’s new historicism in the form of a new Shanghai history textbook.

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