What the Chinese Heard
Carolynne Wheeler is a Canadian journalist based in Beijing. Her work has also appeared in The Daily Telegraph (UK), The Guardian (UK), Monocle magazine (UK) and The Globe and Mail (Canada).
Obama is drawing fire in the U.S. for what he didn't say to Chinese authorities. Carolynne Wheeler reports from Beijing on how the government restricted what its citizens didn't hear.
The Beijing Summer Olympics' Opening Ceremony aired to one billion people, surpassing even Mao's wildest dreams of totalitarian reach. The 90-minute spectacle, featuring 14,000 performers and 34,000 fireworks, was billed as a dramatizati...
Alexandra Munroe is Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her exhibitions include a major retrospective of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, a commissioned installation by Anish Kapoor titled Anish Kapoor: Memory, and a historical survey examining the influence of Asian art and thought on American modernism titled The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989, which is on view through April. She is an award-winning curator and former museum director.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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