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June 3, 2025

The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard

Amid escalating threats from the Trump Administration, a student assesses whom he can turn to.
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Published on June 03, 2025 03:00

January 6, 2025

Lauren Boebert���s Survival Instincts

The Colorado congresswoman���s inflammatory rhetoric has made her a national symbol of the Trumpist far right. She presents a different image closer to home.
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Published on January 06, 2025 03:00

April 1, 2024

How Chinese Students Experience America

COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred thousand college students who come to the U.S. each year.
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Published on April 01, 2024 03:00

June 26, 2023

The Double Education of My Twins��� Chinese School

The President of China compared moral education to buttons on clothes. The girls��� buttons were wrong from the start, but they learned the more valuable lessons that two systems can impart.
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Published on June 26, 2023 03:00

December 6, 2022

What Chinese People Think of Their Government���s ���Zero COVID��� Policy

Many citizens don���t know anyone who���s had the disease, yet their faith in the country���s restrictive rules is waning.
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Published on December 06, 2022 03:00

May 9, 2022

A Teacher in China Learns the Limits of Free Expression

How had the country experienced so much social, economic, and educational change while��its��politics remained stagnant?
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Published on May 09, 2022 03:00

December 27, 2021

China���s Reform Generation��Adapts to Life��in the Middle Class

My students from the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they���re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.
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Published on December 27, 2021 03:00

June 14, 2021

Learning to Ski in a Country of Beginners

As China prepares to host the Winter Olympics, its people get on skis.
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Published on June 14, 2021 03:00

March 8, 2021

The Rise of Made-in-China Diplomacy

While political leaders trade threats, the pandemic has made Americans even more reliant on China���s manufacturers.
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Published on March 08, 2021 03:00

October 5, 2020

Nine Days in Wuhan, the Ground Zero of the Coronavirus Pandemic

There���s no other country where the pandemic���s e���ects have been so concentrated in a single city, Peter Hessler writes.
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Published on October 05, 2020 03:00

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