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Online magazine from Asia Society Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China

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ChinaFile@chinafile.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hot pot and dumpling bistros, Pilates studios, viral massage videos: In Mexico City, young Chinese women are building businesses—and lives—on their own terms. New from Hǎi 海, ChinaFile's project on global Chinese lives:

In Mexico City, Young Chinese Women Are Becoming Their Own Bosses | ChinaFile

As China’s global footprint expands, Zhao is part of a growing cohort of young Chinese women building overseas careers and leadership experience at Chinese corporations in emerging markets such as Mexico. It’s a crisp day. Zhao’s mission in Mexico City is to launch the first and flagship restaurant in the country for a global Chinese chain of hot pot restaurants. Two

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Asia Society New York@newyork.asiasociety.org · 3mo ago

Cartoonist and illustrator Leise Hook’s debut graphic memoir “Names and Faces” examines the in-betweenness of being mixed-race. Read the conversation between Leise and @goldkorn.bsky.social in @chinafile.bsky.social:

‘Mapping Myself onto a Vine or a Fish’

Leise Hook is a cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Stockholm, Sweden. She grew up in Virginia and Michigan, and previously worked in art museums in New York and Beijing. Her cartoons appear in…

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ChinaFile@chinafile.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Xi Jinping won the agenda for his summit with Donald Trump before Airforce One touched down in Beijing," writes Robert Daly, director of the Program on China and the United States at the University of Maryland. But what did the U.S. get?

We Can Live with China (But Drop ‘Constructive Strategic Stability’) | ChinaFile

Xi Jinping won the agenda for his summit with Donald Trump before Airforce One touched down in Beijing. America would do it his way. Trump’s cheerfulness and limited ambitions in Beijing must have surprised many Americans. For a decade, Washington had heralded a fierce, protracted competition with China. Trump rang the alarm bells himself in the early weeks of his first

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ChinaFile@chinafile.bsky.social · 5mo ago

China banned seafood imports, restricted dual-use exports, and sent joint bomber patrols with Russia near Japan. Is this a familiar pressure playbook—or something more ominous? ChinaFile's latest Conversation:

Is There An Off-Ramp for China and Japan? | ChinaFile

Japan-China relations are in a deep freeze that began in November when Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that Japan could intervene militarily in the event of a Taiwan crisis. Beijing responded furiously, invoking World War II, banning exports of dual-use items to a list of Japanese companies, advising citizens against traveling there, and reimposing a seafood import

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ChinaFile@chinafile.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"We wouldn't take Chinese or Saudi government money. At what point should we stop taking U.S. government money?" Amid funding cuts, the China human rights community some tough questions.

To Ensure a More Sustainable Future, Human Rights Work on China Should Move Away from U.S. Government Funding | ChinaFile

Last month, the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia announced that it had resumed broadcasts to audiences in China, after cuts under the Trump administration last year largely forced the outlet to halt operation. For many who care about independent journalism and human rights in China, the news brought a brief sigh of relief. However, last year’s dramatic cuts, some of them

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Susan Jakes@susanjakes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lots of tough but important questions in @yaqiu.bsky.social exploration of the way dependence on USG funding shapes China human rights advocacy. Haven't seen anything before that attempts this kind of blunt cost/benefit analysis. www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...

To Ensure a More Sustainable Future, Human Rights Work on China Should Move Away from U.S. Government Funding

Last month, the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia announced that it had resumed broadcasts to audiences in China, after cuts under the Trump administration last year largely forced the outlet to ...

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Susan Jakes@susanjakes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I have revered Zha Jianying since I first read China Pop in the late 90s and it was was the greatest to work with her + @goldkorn.bsky.social on her part-memoir, part polemical lament, "Trains." Here's a short interview we did about the project.

ChinaFile@chinafile.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"my grandfather told her in great detail about that train station farewell, how they parted and his French wife was holding this baby girl and waving this white scarf until they disappeared and none of them knew this was going to be forever…"

Asia Society @asiasociety.org · 7mo ago

Journalist and author Zha Jianying joined @chinafile.bsky.social to discuss her piece "Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival." https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/notes-chinafile/family-derailed-writing-trains

A Family Derailed: On Writing ‘Trains'

ChinaFile recently published “Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival,” by Zha Jianying, the journalist and author of some of the most memorable recent books on contemporary China and particularly Chinese culture. This ...

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ChinaFile@chinafile.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"my grandfather told her in great detail about that train station farewell, how they parted and his French wife was holding this baby girl and waving this white scarf until they disappeared and none of them knew this was going to be forever…"

A Family Derailed: On Writing “Trains” | ChinaFile

ChinaFile recently published “Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival,” by Zha Jianying, the journalist and author of some of the most memorable recent books on contemporary China and particularly Chinese culture. This is a lightly edited, abridged transcript of a conversation between Zha Jianying and ChinaFile Editor-in-Chief Susie Jakes and

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ChinaFile@chinafile.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"my grandfather told her in great detail about that train station farewell, how they parted and his French wife was holding this baby girl and waving this white scarf until they disappeared and none of them knew this was going to be forever…"

A Family Derailed: On Writing “Trains” | ChinaFile

ChinaFile recently published “Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival,” by Zha Jianying, the journalist and author of some of the most memorable recent books on contemporary China and particularly Chinese culture. This is a lightly edited, abridged transcript of a conversation between Zha Jianying and ChinaFile Editor-in-Chief Susie Jakes and

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ChinaFile@chinafile.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We asked a panel of experts: How will Trump's moves and threats against Venezuela, Greenland and other countries affect Beijing’s investments in Venezuelan oil industry, its calculus on Taiwan, and its relations with the rest of the world?

How Will China Respond to Maduro’s Capture? | ChinaFile

On January 3, the U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a nighttime raid on Caracas and flew him to New York to face drug trafficking charges. Trump announced the U.S. would temporarily “run” Venezuela until a transition of power occurs. Beijing immediately released a statement condemning the U.S.’s “blatant use of force against a sovereign

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ChinaFile@chinafile.bsky.social · 8mo ago

'Mistress Dispeller' has been shortlisted for the Oscars. Here is a recent interview with director Elizabeth Lo by ChinaFile Editor-in-Chief Susan Jakes:

‘Mistress Dispeller’ | ChinaFile

The new documentary feature film Mistress Dispeller probes the unraveling and redemption of a marriage at breathtakingly close range. Director Elizbeth Lo follows Teacher Wang, a professional “mistress dispeller,” as she counsels a middle-aged wife undone by her husband’s infidelity and unspools a covert plan to rid them of his lover. The film is currently playing at the IFC

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hongkongfp.com · 8mo ago

The verdict in the national security trial of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is set to be delivered next Monday, according to the judiciary. In full: buff.ly/mahJGVX

BREAKING: Jimmy Lai nat. security case verdict to be handed down Monday | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

The verdict in the national security trial of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 78, is set to be handed down next Monday, according to the judiciary. The founder of Hong Kong’s defunct Apple Daily...

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