Milk Scandal Taints China's Self-Image
Anna Greenspan : Food & Nutrition
The tainted milk crisis could prod China to act responsibly.
2008
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Toxic Loans, Tainted Food
David E. Gumpert : U.S. Economy
As financial markets reel from the US financial crisis and tainted Chinese dairy products are sold around the world, we're learning hard lessons on the limits of globalization.
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China's Quest for Moral Authority
Orville Schell : Foreign Affairs
China is booming, but slouches toward the moral authority needed to inspire a modern, open and prosperous state. Does Confucius hold the key?
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What Would Mao Think of the Games?
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : History
He'd feel bad that the whole Communist era was airbrushed out of the Olympic spectacle. But he'd probably like the swimming.
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Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Presidential Election 2008
China's middle class ambitions; the Democrats' quest for blue-collar votes.
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Beyond Beijing: China's Toughest Competition
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom & Kate Merkel-Hess : Sports
How will the Olympics play in the Chinese equivalent of Peoria, among a populace skeptical of the government's intent and eager to tout their own economic clout?
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Class Struggle in the New China
Christian Parenti : World Economy
Across China there is a rising rural and urban class struggle as the economy moves from Maoist socialism to a strange type of quasi-Maoist capitalism.
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Strong Medicine
Melissa Holbrook Pierson : Books, Literature, & Ideas
An epic portrait of the Tiananmen Square protests, Ma Jian's Beijing Coma is one hell of a powerful novel.
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Fathers and Sons
Matt Steinglass : Books, Literature, & Ideas
Three recent books trace the generational fault lines of the Confucian family during China's past and present revolutions.
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Who's Your Buddha?
Howard W. French : Non-Fiction
A collection of oral histories reveal a new understanding of the modern Chinese experience.
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Hold China Accountable on Darfur
Ruth Messinger & Jerry Fowler : Sports
Don't let Olympic fever obscure the role China plays in the Sudanese government's reign of terror, rape and killing.
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Taiwan Declares Peace on China
Robert Scheer
You can't trust the Chinese. I don't care if you're talking about those communists on the mainland or the other guys on Taiwan; they just won't follow the wargames script that our weapons hawks had counted on.
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China's Inauspicious Year
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
China's response to the earthquake and other calamities of 2008 challenges the West to rethink its prejudices.
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Regime-Quakes in Burma and China
Naomi Klein : Myanmar (Burma)
Nothing terrifies a repressive regime more than a natural disaster.
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Battle of the Beijing Boycotts
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Two days in May could mark a turning point in the debates over Olympic boycotts.
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Youth Protests Outshine Olympic Torch
Cora Currier : Student Movements
Tibetan-led youth groups are proving the power of grassroots organizing with their highly effective Beijing Olympics protests.
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Olympic Flame Out
The Editors : Sports
Boycotts of the Beijing Olympics are easy. What's harder is moving China towards meaningful progress on human rights.
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China's Olympic Delusion
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : Sports
Cracking down once again in Tibet, China seeks to control the script on its flawed human rights record, yet still be regarded as a suitable host for the Olympics. Dream on.
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The Big Yam
John Feffer : Globalization
Chinese hearts, minds and pocketbooks get a lot of attention from the Eastern and Western consumer markets.
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NIMBY Comes to China
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
In Shanghai, angry, middle-class protesters say a high-speed train will wreck their quality of life. This new form of dissent could be one of the biggest challenges China will face.
2007
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The New China Hands
Ken Silverstein : Economic Policy
Corporate America spends millions lobbying to win permanent most favored nation (MFN) trade status for China, with its vast market and dirt-cheap labor force.
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Big Red Checkbook
America's foreign-policy establishment is struggling to find an appropriate response to China's soft power.
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The China Syndrome
Andrew Ross : Working Conditions
Worried about toxic toys from China? Worry, too, about Chinese workers exposed to the poisons.
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Getting Real About China
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : Sports
From product safety to piracy, human rights and the Olympic Games, isn't it time we started being realistic about the way we treat China?
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Hong Kong, Ten Years After
Ten years of Chinese rule in Hong Kong hasn't resulted in severe human rights abuses, but full democracy has yet to emerge.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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