“The overall style of the illustrations do not conform to the aesthetic tastes of the public,” said the country’s Ministry of Education.
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River in China Dries Up, Revealing 600-Year-Old Buddhist Statues
The Yangtze River’s water levels are receding amid an ongoing heatwave in the country.
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Different Hong Kong Generations Come Together in Protest Reenactments
Blending documentary and reenactment, director Chan Tze-woon compares and contrasts contemporary and historical activist movements.
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Archeologists Uncover the Oldest Ochre Workshop in East Asia
Artifacts found at the 40,000-year-old site suggest that powders of different hues and grain sizes were produced there.
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The Passive, Tech-Obsessed Opening of the Winter Olympics
Everything that distinguished director Zhang Yimou’s famed opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympics feels either lacking or missing altogether here.
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Two Artists Record the Voices of the Silk Road
The Silk Road Songbook’s polyvocal strategies to share diasporic experiences are a radical reversal of what expressions of resistance and persistence are expected to look like.
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It Is Time for International Museums to Sever Ties With China
The recent atrocities mean that museums working with Chinese state-run enterprises need to think long and hard about their presence.
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Ai Weiwei Plumbs His Chaotic Childhood in New Memoir
Ai Weiwei’s childhood recollections are vividly violent.
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Hong Kong’s Only Tiananmen Massacre Memorial Faces Removal
There is an official ban against the public mourning of Tiananmen Square victims in Hong Kong and mainland China.
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The Industry and Leisure of the World’s Largest Middle Class
Jessica Kingdon’s new film Ascension documents the factories, etiquette centers, and other contemporary curiosities of China.
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Jia Zhangke Talks About His Quest to Document a Rapidly Disappearing China
Hyperallergic interviews Jia about Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue and finding people to testify about their experiences in rural villages over the past seven decades.
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The Underrated Nonfiction Films of Jia Zhangke
While the Chinese director has won acclaim for movies like A Touch of Sin and Ash Is Purest White, his documentaries are an equally vital part of his oeuvre.