David Rullo's new book Gen X Pittsburgh: The Beehive and the ‘90s Scene highlights a slice of '90s culture and nightlife that grew up in and around the pioneering Pittsburgh coffee shop.
In this show: dating tips for hooking up with your Marxist-Leninist thought instructor, advice on what modern music and seasonal vegetables to smuggle in from Hong Kong, the origins of China’s somewhat unorthodox driving customs, and instructions on reaching your nearest Communist bandit hotline should the red menace become too much to handle. Also making repeat appearances:
Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday alleged that the politics of Congress thrived from separatism and said that the Congress defected from the places wh
With the Chinese stock market in turmoil earlier this month, Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, wrote about the dramatic crash for The Guardian: “Why China’s Stock Market Bubble Was Always Bound To Burst.” Schell was one of the first American journalists to chronicle China’s stock markets. Here’s a piece he wrote with Todd Lappin for
The forthcoming Mandarin-language comedy King of Peking takes the viewer back to Beijing in 1998. The sooty rooms, the boxy automobiles of just a few makes, models, and colors, and the alleyways crammed with shops hawking cheap home cooking and pirated movies on disc all recall the era when three filmmakers from markedly different backgrounds were growing up in big-city China