Turning Old News Into New History
When I was studying journalism in the early 1980s at Shanghai’s Fudan University, reading the newspaper each day was part of our homework. “Today’s newspapers are tomorrow’s history,” our professors always told us.
I took that lesson with me when I went to the United Kingdom for graduate school in 1988. The U.K. is the cradle of modern journalism, where the ideals of freedom of the press first took root. Whenever a big news story broke, I usually bought copies of all the major newspapers, both to read and to keep as mementos. How to treasure history is one of the qualities I learned from the British, and they preserve almost everything.
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Why a Silk Road Travelogue Is Taking China by Storm
Despite China’s massive investment in Central Asia, the region remains an enigma to most ordinary Chinese. But a hit new book aims to change that.
Like many in China, Liu Zichao used to consider Central Asia a strange and mysterious land.
The former journalist recalls being on an assignment in the western Chinese city of Khorgos in 2010 and a local truck driver telling him that on the other side of the snow-capped mountains ahead of them lay Almaty.
At the time, the name meant little to Liu. His knowledge of Kazakhstan, he says, was limited to a vague sense of its history as a stopping point along the ancient Silk Road and its socialist past as part of the Soviet Union.
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