Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'China'
Out of the Darkness: An interview with Melanie Kirkpatrick on “Escape from North Korea”
by Leslie Patrick -South Korea- Standing at the 38th parallel that divides the two Koreas is a surreal experience. On the southern side, buses of foreign tourists on day trips from nearby Seoul buy postcards and gawk across barbed wire...
Adopting Chinese Daughters: A Conversation on Somewhere Between
by Alexandra Marie Daniels Arts, Culture & Media Editor “I cried” is the first thing I say when I begin my phone conversation with Linda Goldstein Knowlton about her new film Somewhere Between. “If you don’t cry,” the director responds,...
Tibetan Nomads Lose Ground to Development
by Michelle Tolson -Mongolia- On May 31 2012, the Tibetan Women’s Association dutifully recorded the self-immolation of Rikyo, a Tibetan nomad woman and mother of three who set herself on fire near a monastery at a town in Ngaba County...
Despite Tensions Tibetans Remain Devoted to Dalai Lama: The Sun Behind the Clouds
by Jessica Mosby -USA- The Chinese have ruled Tibet since 1959. For Tibetan refugees living around the world, the dream of returning to a free Tibet continues to define their existence in exile. The new documentary film The Sun Behind...
India Sets Its Sights on Higher Education
by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - Education remains an emotional subject in a poor and developing country like India, where it is seen as the primary means for social and economic mobility. Indian families are known to sell land and...
India Ramps up Nuclear Power with Help from the United States
by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - At the insistence of the United States, India has been granted global “nuclear exception” status despite being a non-signatory on nuclear non-proliferation treaties, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban...
Telling the Stories of Chinese-America:
Lisa See on Her New Novel, Shanghai Girls
by Anna Clark - USA - Meet Lisa See—if you aren't already among her millions of fans around the world. Born in Paris and raised in Los Angeles, where she lives today, See is the New York Times bestselling author...
Remote Warfare Radically Changes the Front Lines
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA - In ancient times, warriors could look one another in the eye on the battlefield. War was fought with minimal weaponry, a person-to-person test of bravery and strength. Battlefields were clearly demarcated, extending only...
E-waste: America's Electronics Feed the Global Digital Dump
by Michelle Chen - USA - The landscape of Guiyu, a remote town in China’s Guangdong province, embodies a collision between past and future. Amid acidic plumes of smoke and vast mountains of trash, migrants scour for valuable scraps using...
Long Hair Drama, Part 4
by Lijia Zhang - China Sundown left a trail of blood-red clouds in the western sky, yet evening offered no respite from the burning heat. With the plum rain season at an end Nanjing renewed its reputation as one of...
Long Hair Drama, Part 3
by Lijia Zhang - China - Since the reform and opening up, a handful of young people have begun to worship capitalism,” preached political instructor Wang Aimin, the ideologue-in-chief of our unit, spittle flying over his notes and out into...
Long Hair Drama, Part 2
by Lijia Zhang - China - CLICK, CLACK, CLICK, CLACK ... When the percussive tap sounded from the corridor outside I was instantly alert. Soon, the source arrived in the doorway and walked into the workshop. “Masters, have you all...
Long Hair Drama, Part 1
by Lijia Zhang - China - For ten years, I worked in a missile factory on the banks of the Yangtze River. Although I grew up in the residential compound of my mother’s factory, and all my friends were the...
Tibetans Find Power in Words
by Mridu Khullar - India - • Tibetan writers are using literature and new languages, Chinese and English, to share information about Tibet's struggle for freedom with a wider audience. Photograph by Sirensongs. •With the 2008 Olympics in China beginning...
A New China Floods the Traditional Way of Life in Up the Yangtze
by Jessica Mosby - USA - On 8-8-08 when the Beijing Summer Olympics begins, the world will see that the Maoist doctrine of the Cultural Revolution has been replaced by capitalism and McDonald’s – all in the name of progress....
Olympic Spirit and Media Objectivity Should Be Upheld
by Yu Sun - China - The earthquake that struck Sichuan recently has shown China’s capacity to mobilize resources, cope with emergency situations and handle crisis. China conducted its own prompt media coverage and provided unprecedented access to foreign media...
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