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Melinda Liu
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Jun 2, 2009 04:09 PM
As the anniversary of the June 4 bloodshed looms, Newsweek's Duncan Hewitt explains why China's younger generation doesn't fit the usual stereotypes. Hewitt, who is author of "Getting Rich First: Life in a Changing China", argues that understanding Chinese...
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Melinda Liu
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May 15, 2009 03:13 AM
Lauren Hilgers reports on how fame has affected the life of a child whose heroics during the Sichuan quake made him a celebrity: Like most people around the world, I first saw Lin Hao on television, gripping Yao Ming’s hand as the Chinese Olympic team...
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Melinda Liu
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Apr 24, 2009 07:18 AM
Hat’s off to China’s media – both the orthodox and online community – for trashing a sporting success story that seemed too good to be true -- and was! No, I'm not talking about those baby-faced Chinese gymnasts’ birth certificates; that was last year....
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Newsweek
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Apr 19, 2009 10:35 AM
By Melinda Liu and Nick Mackie. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is tantamount to a rock star in this gathering of financial-policy wonks. His speech to the plenary session of the Boao Forum for Asia -- focused on the theme "Managing Beyond Crisis" -- was meant...
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Melinda Liu
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Mar 30, 2009 07:44 PM
The mood in china appears to be reaching a tipping point, as its normally bland leaders abandon cautious diplo-speak under the pressures of the global financial crisis. First, they blamed American capitalism for the crisis and Premier Wen Jiabao publicly...
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Melinda Liu
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Mar 27, 2009 10:36 PM
Once again, it appears some bureaucrats in the Chinese Communist Party’s apparatus are bent on keeping a lid on facts and treating the public with contempt. Yet again , we’re talking about an illness that’s killing kids. Nick Mackie vents from Chongqing:...
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Manuela Zoninsein
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Mar 16, 2009 05:57 PM
Not long ago , Chinese grads were prodded to become innovative risk-taking entrepreneurs. But now the private sector is seen as risky business, and many job-hunters are responding to government incentives to apply for jobs as, of all things, civil servants....
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Melinda Liu
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Mar 9, 2009 09:06 PM
Jennifer Conrad reports on a new author, somebody who knows everybody: Zachary Mexico sits curled over a bowl of noodles. He sips from a glass of red wine, the drink he'll consume in a steady stream throughout the night—sometimes in a champagne flute...
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Melinda Liu
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Mar 5, 2009 01:21 PM
Lots of facts and figures came out of Premier Wen Jiabao's Work Report to China's parliament today. Big numbers too. This year the central and local governments are slated to run a $138 billion deficit -- about 3 percent of China's $3.6 trillion economy...
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Melinda Liu
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Dec 29, 2008 05:53 PM
After the Quake, a Tale of Petty Inhumanity and Its Price by Melinda Liu. Shortly after China's devastating May 12 earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people, I was intrigued by a terse Xinhua News Agency report. The Communist Party secretary of Unity...
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Jonathan Ansfield
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Nov 23, 2008 09:27 PM
I'm American, my wife Amy Chinese. But I often joke that our personal financing models are mirror opposites of our homelands'. She’s the free-market bull, an entrepreneurial force of nature, ever reinventing herself, chasing her dreams, casting for fresh...
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