Tag Archives: Window of the South

A blue-collar beer goes upmarket

Try out the new PBR — just 300 RMB in Beijing.

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In Inner Mongolia, justice denied and then delayed

Hugejiltu was executed in 1996 for murder. In 2005, a serial rapist and murderer confessed to the crime, but authorities are not pursuing the case.

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Who worked for the public good in 2008?

A review of Yang Jisheng’s Tombstone (墓碑) in Window of the South (南风窗). Also, the ‘For the Public Good’ awards

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Three decades of public life in rural Jiangxi

Xiong Peiyun writes about television, gambling, and religion in the small village where he grew up.

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It’s not easy for a migrant worker in the legislature

Window of the South interviews Hu Xiaoyan, an NPC delegate who represents the migrant worker functional constituency.

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Hosting the Olympics in post-quake China

Zheng Yefu (郑也夫) examines the implications of the Olympics in the wake of the Wenchuan earthquake.

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News magazines cover the earthquake

Covers of China’s newsweeklies one week after the Wenchuan Earthquake.

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The right to drink water

South Wind View (南风窗) for 1 December, 2007, features stories on water usage, political reform, and color revolutions.

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The Dazhai Spirit gets religion

In a Window of the South (南风窗) feature on model village Dazhai (大寨), Li Xiangping (李向平) writes about the role religion, in the form of the Pule Temple, plays in the village’s changing identity.

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Working for the public good

A list of public activists, from Window of the South magazine.

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