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Rachel Katz: Hitchhiker, Expert on Chinese Truck Drivers

author. intrepid traveler. industry elucidator.

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Why Are Wedding Dresses the Latest Trend Among Chinese College Grads?

Why wear a frumpy cap and gown when you can commemorate your higher education in bridezilla fashion?

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The Ruined Reputation of China’s First and Only Empress

By normal measures of imperial China, Empress Wu Zetian did a pretty solid job. So why has she been impugned in history?

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China’s Latest Pet Project? Nixing Its Mountains!

China plans to level 700 mountains to create 155 square miles of new land in the name of urban progress, but at what cost?

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How Tiananmen Square Shaped Modern China

Economic reform followed the brutal crackdown, but political reform still looks a long way off.

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China Exacts Revenge on Japan for 78-year-old Injustice

China seizes Japanese ship for a $30 million debt hailing from 1936—"Forgive and Forget" isn’t the en-vogue philosophy among post-World War II pacific nations.

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Paris Invades China: Chinese Nouveau Rich Ditch Traditional Homes for Beaux-Arts Architecture

East-meets-West cultural trends are good for stirring the pot, and the increasing wealth of the Chinese elite provides ample fodder for this mishma

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Millions Could Die Due to Air Pollution in China, And It's Coming for Us!

News reports flooding in about air quality in China indicate that if rampant

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