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Khuuchir performance with Tsendsuren Enkhtur. Photo used with permission. Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in the north and China in the south, sharing a common history as a power that once dominated those two empires. One less known trace of Mongolian–Chinese cultural hybridity can be found in music, as both nations have a tradition of performing on bowed string instruments. To understand the links but also differences in this repert...
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Public domain image via Karen Arnold from publicdomainpictures.net. Free to use After mainland Chinese official media outlets started calling 2024 “the Year of Loong” instead of the Year of the Dragon, the word “loong” and its homophones have become a popular meme among Hongkongers on social media, representing the government's shift toward nationalistic policies and language. The Year of “Loong”This year, major Chinese state-affiliated media outlets have abandoned the term “dragon” and adopted the word “loong”, an uncommonly used transliteration of the Chinese word 龍 (dragon in English), to r...
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Urumqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Screenshot from the video ‘Beautiful Xinjiang, China | Muslim Area | Urumqi City | A Paradise on Earth’ from EaziLine International YouTube channel. Fair use. The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China became known to the world through reports about the so-called “re-education camps,” in which the authorities held hundreds of thousands of local residents. Uyghurs, Kazakhs and representatives of other Turkic and Muslim ethnic groups were tried for any connections with Islam. The Chinese authorities have portra...
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Hong Kong has among the highest per capita meat consumption in the world, at 664g per day, equivalent to two pieces of 10-oz steak. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Used with permission. The following investigation was conducted by HKFP and Repórter Brasil journalists Mercedes Hutton and Piero Locatelli. It was published on HKFP on March 31 2024 and republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement with HKFP. At first glance, there is little to link a handful of featureless Hong Kong office spaces to the world’s largest tropical rainforest. But supply chain data — obtained by non-profit ...
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Screenshot of video showing the use of water cannons by China's Coast Guard against a Philippine ship (middle) en route to the disputed Second Thomas Shoal. Source: YouTube video channel of Inquirer.Net based on a video supplied by the Armed Forces of the Philippines Several media groups in the Philippines have released statements condemning claims by Chinese officials alleging that videos showing the maritime tension between both countries in the South China Sea are “manipulated.” The South China Sea is known in the Philippines as the West Philippine Sea. China is claiming almost all parts of...
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A screenshot from Comment Robot's public Weibo profile page. Fair Use. “Comment Robot” (评论罗伯特), an AI Chatbot, has sparked quite some amusement and rage on Weibo since December 2023, as it has kept poking many Weibo users with humorous, heart-warming, but sometimes inappropriate or even offensive comments. When it first emerged in early December 2023, some users with very few followers were puzzled as to why their Weibo updates had caught the attention of a “Big V” – Weibo's official verified user and opinion leader with many followers – who had zero connection with them online. After local me...
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Photo of the 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan, from Wikipedia, used under CC BY 2.0 Licence In the spring of 2014, Taiwan experienced an unprecedented youth protest known as theSunflower Movement that altered local politics and relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC). But what is its legacy ten years later, as relations between the two countries remain a source of tension? To unpack the movement that occupied governmental institutions as a reaction to a proposed deeper economic integration with the PRC, Global Voices interviewed Taipei-based journalist and activist Brian Hioe, one...
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Hong Kong lawmakers voted on a proposed domestic security law required under Article 23 of the Basic Law on March 19, 2024. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Used with permission. The original version of this report was written by Mercedes Hutton and published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on March 19, 2024. The following edited version has been published on Global Voices as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Hong Kong’s opposition-free legislature has unanimously passed new domestic security legislation, making treason, insurrection and sabotage punishable by up to life in prison and rej...
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Mo Yan. Image by Bengt Nyman via Wikimedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. This post was written by Alex Colville and originally published in the China Media Project on March 11, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with the China Media Project. A spat about the patriotism of one of China’s most celebrated writers has been blown out of proportion on the Chinese internet, thanks to harsher nationalist laws and an increasingly rabid cancel culture. One of China’s most celebrated modern authors is in the firing line, and...
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The NPC spokesman Lou Qinjian told the press that there would not be a premier press conference after the annual parliamentary meetings this year and in the next few years. Screenshot from the BBC's YouTube channel. Fair use. China made a surprise announcement on March 4, one day ahead of the opening of its annual National People’s Congress (NPC), that the country’s premier Li Qiang will not hold a press conference at the end of its “Two Sessions” legislative meeting. The decision marks a break with a political convention started by China’s first premier, Zhou Enlai. The NPC spokesman Lou Qinj...
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