Transformers 2: Chinese Reaction to American Propaganda – General

"as I examined the deep emotional impact of opium on China, I wanted to know whether other parts of Britain’s narco-empire—all equally entitled to feel fury at Britain’s misdemeanours—shared China’s resentment. This summer, I travelled to Delhi and Mumbai, to talk about the Opium War, and to explore differing attitudes to a shared history."

One Chinese author's quest to salvage first-hand accounts of Maoist China - and the dignity and humanity of an entire generation - before it's too late: "This madness has taken hold of me, and will not let me go: I cannot believe that Chinese people always take the truth of their lives with them to the grave."

On May 5, a post purporting to be the full transcript of an interview by now-detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei with a so-called "Internet commentator," or wangluo pinglunyuan, made the rounds on China's Internet, where it was quickly removed and just as quickly reposted on various blogs and online forums.

Online commentators, known colloquially in China as "50 Centers" or the "50-Cent Party"...

IT IS striking how some grudges can survive 149 years. A Chinese art expert has become a patriotic hero in his native land for sabotaging the sale in Paris of two (to my mind rather ordinary) bronze animal heads which were looted by French and British troops from the Yuanmingyuan, or imperial summer palace in Beijing, way back in 1860.