The “Disneyfication of Tibet”
As China’s inbound international tourism continues to grow along with the numbers of potential domestic ticket buyers, China is experiencing an amusement park boom, and is expected to have more theme...
View ArticlePast Leaders’ Birthday Celebrations Under Scrutiny
Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Xi Zhongxun, father of current president Xi Jinping. From Chris Buckley at The New York Times’ new Sinosphere blog: Ancestor veneration in China is...
View ArticleFormer Nuclear Base To Become Red Tourism Park
A nuclear base in what was once “one of the most highly classified locations on earth” in Xinjiang Province will be revived as a 300 million yuan “red tourism” theme park. Tom Phillips reports for The...
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Drawing the News: Lego Blocks Ai Weiwei Sale
Cartoonists Rebel Pepper and Badiucao address the ongoing uproar over toymaker Lego’s refusal to fulfil a special order for activist artist Ai Weiwei. The company says that it avoids “actively engaging...
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