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Peter Hessler: Strange Stones

ChinaFile Presents: Peter Hessler, author of the recently published Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West, a collection of essays and writing on China and the United States over the past decade. He will be in discussion with author Michael Meyer and Susan Jakes, Editor of ChinaFile.

The Wall Street Journal: Covering China (Complete)

Current and former Wall Street Journal China correspondents reflect on China's progress, past and present. more
Fu Guangjun holds her daughter Jiang Yutong, 2, on the first day of preschool classes in New Beichuan. Film still from 'The Reborn of Beichuan.'

Video: Filmmaker Returns Home to Site of Sichuan Earthquake to Tell Town's Tale

Five years after the Sichuan earthquake, 'The Reborn of Beichuan' follows the journey of two families from a devastated Chinese city as they try to restore normalcy to their lives and struggle to move past the loss of their children. more

China Boom

A mosaic explanation of China's extraordinary rise, in the words of those who have watched it most carefully. more

Video: Iron Man 3's China Push is Sign of Things to Come for Hollywood

ChinaFile Managing Editor Jonathan Landreth tells Huffington Post Live he expects Hollywood producers such as those that made Iron Man 3 to continue to look for ways to tap into China's growing moviegoing market. more
A Beijing resident holds up a FLOAT kite fitted with an air quality sensor. (Joshua Frank/ChinaFile)

Video: Sensors Strapped to Kites Search for Clues in Beijing's Dirty Air

Two U.S. graduate students design kites with sensors that can easily monitor Beijing's air quality and send data back to the people on the ground. more
The 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan of China reads during a public reading of his works at Aula Magna, at Stockholm University, on December 9, 2012. (Fredrik Sandberg/AFP/Getty Images)

Politics and the Chinese Language: What Mo Yan's Defenders Get Wrong

The New York Review of Books' Perry Link re-enters the energetic debate over the awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to Chinese novelist Mo Yan. more

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