Sasha (Ling Li) is part of the new youth generation of China, unbeholden to traditions and history, always trying to find themselves in the present moment. An exchange student in Nebraska, Sasha is pregnant after a one-night stand with Yang, a young man she knew briefly in Beijing. He was a nan dan, a male actor who specializes in female roles in the Beijing Opera.

A 11-year-old Chinese schoolgirl in Hunan Province was thrown out the window to her death after being beaten by a metal rod in class by her history teacher.

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Video photo montage book trailer of portraits from the 33 provinces of China, as seen in photojournalist Tom Carter's CHINA: Portrait of a People. AVAILABLE NOW!
Published: Summer 2008 by Blacksmith Books, Hong Kong, in association with Haven Books.

Part 3 of a Real News Network interview with Aijaz Ahmad in which there is some interesting discussion about Chinese and American foreign policy.

This episode is the first in a four-part series SexyBeiJing produced with the radio program All Things Considered, on National Public Radio. The radio version aired June 20, 2008 on stations across America.

Video shot at a Free Tibet Protest outside the UN.

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In fact, let's forget about the donkey cart altogether and make it a Chrysler C300... just like Snoop Dogg drives! This is the first Uyghur music video I've posted in quite a long time.

Listening to Ismayil Tiliwaldi - who serves as the Chairman of Xinjiang's "autonomous" regional government - explain his conversion from Islam to communism makes an important point that everyone should keep in mind. That is, not all Uyghurs are separatists, nor are they all even Muslims.

An investigative look into China's "black jails" and how petitioners, breaking no Chinese laws, are being imprisoned, beaten or just plainly ignored when they bring their problems to Beijing.