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In Hong Kong, a Once Liberal University Feels Beijing’s Weight
With protesters crushed and memorials removed, there’s no room for campus dissent. By Karen Cheung Every fall, I think about my first semester at the …
These Glitchy Lecture Posters Ask: What Buildings Would You Put on a Desert Island?
Earlier this year, the University of Hong Kong hosted “Desert Island Buildings,” a weekly lecture series where big names in global architecture …
Tracking coronavirus in animals takes on new urgency
Researchers Sarah Hamer and Lisa Auckland donned their masks and gowns as they pulled up to the suburban home in College Station, Tex. The family of three inside had had covid a few weeks earlier, and now it was time to check on the pets. Oreo the rabbit was his usual chill self, and Duke the golden …
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After successfully curbing the novel coronavirus for most of the past two years, China in recent months has faced its biggest Covid-19 surge since the virus was first discovered in Wuhan in December 2019. The Covid wave caused by the highly contagious omicron variant has spread across many major …
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Microsoft censors suggestions on its Bing search engine for American users looking up Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Tiananmen Square protests’ …
The Language of Chinese Dreams Is Science Fiction — And Sometimes They’re Nightmares
On the restless night of June 3, 1989, a young engineer visiting Beijing for a trade conference had a nightmare. He dreamt of a battalion of children …
The arrest of a 90-year-old cardinal signals China’s crackdown — and its fear
Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, is speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. On June 4, the world will mark 33 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre. On that day — a date that is seared into the consciousness of all freedom-loving people — we remember one of the greatest acts of …
Opinion | The Arrest of Cardinal Zen Marks a New Low in Hong Kong
The arrest this week of 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen marks a new low in China’s destruction of Hong Kong’s democracy. Cardinal Zen, the Roman Catholic bishop of Hong Kong from 2002 through 2009, was arrested along with other prominent activists, including lawmaker Margaret Ng and pop star and …
