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Click Here to Read:  China’s prostitutes routinely extorted, abused by police, report says  By William Wan in  The Washington Post on  May 13, 2013.

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES - A woman awaits customers from the doorway of a neon-lit barber shop in Beijing. Sex workers ply their trade with virtual impunity in bars, massage spas, karaoke parlours and the “barber shops” that are found in many Beijing back alleys

Click Here to Read: The Chinese Are Freaking Out About A Potential Drop In Housing Prices in The Economist on May 4, 2013.

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N. Szajnberg, MD , Managing Editor

This Spring’s Dissent issue has five articles on China — change and its discontents; its many nationalisms; women’s rights at risk; Youth and their disaffection from politics; and workers at Foxconn. These are primarily descriptive pieces, but give glimpses to the shifts in life in contemporary China.

Click Here to Read:   The Spring Issue of Dissent Magazine.

We will be running some pieces on our teaching in Wuhan over the next few weeks, including some case conferences to give a sense of our efforts in Wuhan.

N. Szajnberg, MD

Click Here to Read:  Learning From China, but What? By Yu Hua in The New York Times on  April 24, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Earthquake hits China’s Sichuan province, killing at least 179 and injuring thousands  By Steven Mufson in The Washington Post on April 21, 2013.

Click Here to Read: Festival’s Resurgence Has Chinese Sending Manna to the Heavens By Dan Levin in The New York Times on April 4, 2013.

Qingming, a day of honoring ancestors, has grown more popular since the Chinese government reinstated it as a holiday in 2008.

Click Here to Read: Why China Is Finally Abandoning Its One Child Policy by Richard Lehmann on the Forbes Magazine website on March 28. 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Why Is This Haggadah Different? Review of  The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China by Fook-Kong Wong and Dalia Yasharpour, reviewed by David Stern in The Jewish Review of Books in Issue #13, Spring 2013.

Ink Rubbing of the 1512 stone inscription by the Kaifend Jews
(With permission of the Royal Ontario Museum (@ROM).

Click Here To Read:  China’s House of Cards on the Atlantic Mobile website on March 11, 2013.

Click Here to Read: This ’60 Minutes’ Video Of China’s Ghost Cities Is More Surreal than Anything We’ve Ever Seen by Mamta Badkar on the Business Insider website on March 3, 2013.

Click Here To Read: Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA) China Tour October 23 to November 19, 2013.

Click here to Read:  China open letter calls for political reforms By Celia Hatton on the BBC News website on February 27, 2013,

Click Here to Read:  China in Revolt by Eli Friedman on the Jacobin website.

Click Here to Read:  Why China Has Yet To Develop Winning Industries by Panos Mourdoukoutas on the Forbes Magazine website on February 11, 2013,

Click Here to Read:   In China, a Vast Chasm Between the Rich and the Rest By Sim Chi Yin in The New York Times on February 9, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Masters of Subservience By Louisa Lim in The New York Times on February 1, 2013.

Click Here to Read: China debates divorces involving homosexuality By Luo Jieqi on the market Watch website on January 27, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Red China revisited: Modern, bustling, capitalistic on the By Barry Sussmann in The Philadelphia Inquirer on January 26, 2013.

Click Here to Read:   Study Measures Impact of China’s One-Child Policy By Sindya N. Bhanoo in The New York Times on January 14, 2013.

Click Here to Read: Advancing Economic Reforms China’s leaders set the tone for 2013 By Lan Xinzhen on the BeijingReview.com.cn website on December 24, 2013.