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China

Going to see the dragon

by Paul Theroux,

A journey through south China, land of capitalist miracles, where yesterday's rice paddy becomes tomorrow's metropolis, and a thousand factories bloom

Untitled

by Greg Girard,

Great leaps forward

by Jeff Z. Klein,

Chinese dissent, ready to wear

by Kin Chi Lau,

Readings

by Dominik Obertreis,

The last banquet

Art by Hongtu Zhang,

Beijing’s China card

Translated by Shi Heping,

Inside Qin Cheng Prison

From “Qin Cheng Prison: A Story,” by a twenty-one-year-old Chinese student. The author, who wishes to remain anonymous, was arrested last summer for his role in the Tiananmen Square protest…

Promotion report

by Hengchu Chen,Translated by Howard Goldblatt,

Beijing’s popcorn entrepreneur

by W.J.F. (William John Francis) Jenner, Zhang Xinxin, Sang Ye,Edited by Delia Davin,

One question

by Mark Salzman,