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Chinese president Xi Jinping can't bear being compared to Winnie the Pooh anymore, so the cartoon cub is now banned in China
Disney’s Winnie-the-Pooh has been banned on the mainland, seemingly for no reason other than the vanity of Chinese president Xi Jinping ... But not all cartoon lookalikes are bad.
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Techniques and Idiosyncrasies
No nurse had done that. Podcast: The Writer’s Voice Listen to Yiyun Li read “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies.” Perhaps Tina had a propensity to seek unusual and aesthetic satisfaction from her ...
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Maria Li Bao, Empress of Asian Haute Cuisine – “You’ll never see a Chinese begging for alms” – here’s why
Maria Li Bao’s (Qingtian, Zhejiang, 1971) family tale is similar to most migrants in our (not always) humanity: they are looking for a better future. The People’s Republic of China now is not the same ...