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Yishu -- Contemporary Chinese Art

ACI has recently discovered "Yishu", a splendid journal of contemporary Chinese art. For those of you who don't know it, please keep reading! Read more...
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Thoughts of the Dalai Lama

Before I left Japan, I had the honor of seeing His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. He spoke of globalization, financial crisis, climate change, compassion and warm-heartedness. Read more...
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Social media in China

Yiran Liu, currently studying at Tokyo's Sophia University, has an interesting article to share with us on the social media in China. Read more...
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Recalibrating China's social contract

The reform agenda of Chinese President Xi Jinping's new administration is an attempt to rebalance the nation's social contract -- to enable the Communist Party to survive! Read more...
Leo Lacey -- a tribute

Leo Lacey -- a tribute

Leo Lacey, who recently passed away, saw the prospects of the Asian Century, long before the expression was ever coined. Read more...
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Culture Wise China

China is different, very different. So if you wish to negotiate an international agreement, do business with China, live there or even simply visit, you need to be "culture wise China". Read more...
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Chinese art at Toronto's Shangri-La Hotel

Toronto's Shangri-La Hotel has the best collection of Chinese art in the city. You must go and savor the experience, as I have done. Read more...
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China's Liu Xiaobo

How powerful is China really when it fears the influence of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize–winning poet and essayist Liu Xiaobo to such a point that he is put in jail? Read more...
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China's disappearing cheap labor

For the past three decades, the Chinese economy has relied on a vast supply of cheap labor, moving from the rural country to the industralizing cities. All the signs point to this is coming to an end Read more...
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Ai Weiwei sculptures in Toronto

The exhibition of Ai Weiwei's sculptures in Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square is the highlight of the city's summer cultural season. Read more...