Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu

The Inmost Shrine: A Photographic Odyssey of China, 1873

One of the first photojournalists in the world, John Thomson, traveled to China and took photographs of Chinese people in the late 19th century. His photographs have been widely circulated, collected by the Wellcome Gallery in England and by National Library of Scotland.

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Panyu waste dump demonstrations

A demonstration against a waste plant in Panyu District (番禺), Guangzhou is happening right now.

For updates please view hashtag #pyj on Twitter. Photos by @lemoned for the protest.

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In New York: Contemporary heroes from China’s music scene

Nick Frisch writes from New York about the wave of rock and classical music from China that appeared in the American metropolis.

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Tian Zhuangzhuang: The film world as mafia and commerical models of film

Time Weekly interviews Tian Zhuangzhuang about his new film The Warrior and the Wolf, in which he talked about commercialism of films in China, the film industry as a kind of mafia and the lacking of a master film in China.

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Julia Lovell on translating Lu Xun’s complete fiction: “His is an angry, searing vision of China”

Julia Lovell teaches at the University of London’s Birkbeck College and has translated Serve the People by Yan Lianke and Lust; Caution by Eileen Chang amongst other Chinese literary works. Lovell’s new book of translation is modern fiction forefather Lu Xun’s The Real Story of Ah Q and Other Tales of China, published by Penguin. Danwei interviews Lovell.

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Xujun Eberlein’s Apologies Forthcoming

Hong Kong’s Blacksmith Books has published a short story collection by Xujun Eberlein.

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TIME‘s Austin Ramzy on GDP growth, the Global Media Summit and the TIME China blog

Austin Ramzy has been reporting for TIME for 6 years, starting in Hong Kong and moving to Beijing in 2007. Since then he has covered the Hong Kong Chief Executive election in 2007, the Beijing Olympics, Wenchuan earthquake and the Xinjiang riots.

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Emily Xu’s translation of Tyrannicide Brief

Geoffrey Robertson is a well-known human rights lawyer whose reputation extends around the world. He has written numerous books about his occupation and the latest, Tyrannicide Brief, is a historical account about putting King Charles I on trial in England in 1649, a King who had the divine right to rule. Emily Xu translated the book into Chinese. Danwei interviews Xu.

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Princess Der Ling: Two Years in the Forbidden City

Two years in the Forbidden City is largely a reminiscence of the minutiae of life for one of history’s most powerful women, by one of her court attendants, a Manchu noble’s daughter by the name of Der Ling.

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A North Korea that’s hard to get to know

Premier Wen Jiabao was recently in North Korea to broker deals about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Chinese media accompanied the premier’s trip, and included in the entourage was Rose Luqiu Luwei (闾丘露薇), who is an executive news editor for Hong Kong’s Phoenix Satellite Television.

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