As Towering Star Retires, China Is Unprepared to Replace Him
With Yao Ming set to announce his retirement from the NBA tomorrow, China is set to lose its largest (and tallest) international sports star. The New York Times reports: For nearly a decade, China has...
View ArticleYao Who? China’s New NBA Star
The Wall Street Journal calls attention to Jeremy Lin, who has suddenly become China’s newest NBA idol in the absence of the now-retired Yao Ming: Lin, a former Harvard star who went undrafted out of...
View ArticleXi Jinping Preparing for U.S. Visit
Vice President Xi Jinping, who is slated to take over the helm of the Party from Hu Jintao later this year, will visit the U.S. next week. His visit comes as tensions with the U.S. are heightened over...
View ArticleHouston Hoping Linsanity Channels Yao
The Wall Street Journal reports that New York Knicks fans aren’t alone in their disappointment over the news that Jeremy Lin will play for the Houston Rockets next year: As unhappy as some U.S....
View ArticleScholars Fight Back Against Roman Invasion
More than 100 scholars have protested the inclusion of 239 English words and abbreviations including NBA and PM2.5 in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary. From Global Times: In the letter, experts...
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Minitrue: Remove All Reports Related to the NBA from Homepages
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The names of the issuing bodies have been omitted to protect the sources....
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Foreign Companies and the Internalization of Chinese Propaganda
As the ongoing controversy with the NBA over a team general manager’s tweet in support of Hong Kong has laid bare, foreign corporations and other entities operating in China face an increasingly...
View ArticleChinese Soccer Fans Burn Arsenal Shirts After Player Highlights Situation in...
Last week on Instagram, Arsenal midfielder Mesut Özil posted a poem in Turkish criticizing the treatment that Muslim Uyghurs have been facing in Xinjiang with the East Turkestan flag—the current symbol...
View Article30 Years Later, Visit to China Still Resonates
The Washington Wizards basketball team is visiting China to commemorate a trip to the country thirty years ago by the same team (then called the Washington Bullets), which marked the first visit to...
View ArticleLeBron James Gets China
Turns out the closely-watched decision by basketball star LeBron James to join the Miami Heat had everything to do with China. The Forbes blog explains: At that moment, though, Stephen Smith...
View ArticleRockets’ Yao Ming to Quit NBA: Reports
NBA star Yao Ming is planning to retire from professional basketball, Reuters reports: Yao had cast doubt on his return to the NBA last month when he admitted to the possibility he may not play again...
View ArticleAs Towering Star Retires, China Is Unprepared to Replace Him
With Yao Ming set to announce his retirement from the NBA tomorrow, China is set to lose its largest (and tallest) international sports star. The New York Times reports: For nearly a decade, China has...
View ArticleYao Who? China’s New NBA Star
The Wall Street Journal calls attention to Jeremy Lin, who has suddenly become China’s newest NBA idol in the absence of the now-retired Yao Ming: Lin, a former Harvard star who went undrafted out of...
View ArticleXi Jinping Preparing for U.S. Visit
Vice President Xi Jinping, who is slated to take over the helm of the Party from Hu Jintao later this year, will visit the U.S. next week. His visit comes as tensions with the U.S. are heightened over...
View ArticleHouston Hoping Linsanity Channels Yao
The Wall Street Journal reports that New York Knicks fans aren’t alone in their disappointment over the news that Jeremy Lin will play for the Houston Rockets next year: As unhappy as some U.S....
View ArticleScholars Fight Back Against Roman Invasion
More than 100 scholars have protested the inclusion of 239 English words and abbreviations including NBA and PM2.5 in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary. From Global Times: In the letter, experts...
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Basketball Fans in China and the U.S. Angered Over Free Speech Controversy
Following a tweet by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in which he expressed support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the Chinese government has made moves to ban the team–one of...
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Translation: “China’s Last Rockets Fan”
On October 6th, a Sina Weibo user who was unhappy with the backlash over the Houston Rockets controversy expressed his anger by posting a photo of himself holding an unlit lighter against the Chinese...
View ArticleMinitrue: Delete “South Park” Episode “Band in China”
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All...
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Netizen Voices: This Country Does Not Need a Second Voice
On October 8, Cover News launched a survey questionnaire on Weibo asking for readers’ take on CCTV Sports’ decision to suspend its NBA broadcast following the Houston Rockets controversy. The...
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