Reuters, Nov. 27, 2010
TIANJIN, China (Reuters) – Traffic weaves lazily through a Chinese industrial park lined with imposing buildings – home to the company that is outbidding the world's top two cable companies for Dutch industry player Draka. Before its audacious cash bid, which trumps an agreed takeover by Italy's Prysmian, Xinmao was little known abroad – or in most of China for that matter.
The Photo Of Man Vs. Tank At Tiananmen Square Offers A New View Of History. But Why Hold Onto It For Two Decades?
Pomona College Magazine, Fall 2009
SOMETIMES WE DO THINGS – or don't do things – that we can't easily explain. This summer I've been mulling over how I sat on, without publishing or publicizing, a remarkable photograph for two decades ... a picture I took 20 years ago that is an alternative viewpoint of an iconic image that captivated much of the world.
New York Times Online, June 4, 2009
I was extremely high strung by June 5 (1989) when I took this photo I had been running on little sleep since students began a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square on May 13, and I had been trading shifts with other AP repoters, staffing the square 24/7 for nearly three weeks. ... I was in front of the Beijing Hotel, when another volley of shots rang out from where the tanks were, and people began ducking, shrieking, stumbling and running toward me. I lifted my camera and squeezed off a single shot before retreating back behind more trees and bushes where hundreds of onlookers were cowering.
You Can Tell The Difference, Even At Night
Journal of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship - December 2008
Journal of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship - December 2008
BEIJING – Beijing's "Airport Road" was more of a tree-lined country lane in the 1980s. Today the way in from Capital Airport is a multi-lane freeway, and the entire route is lined with building after building. It's a far cry from my first trip to China in 1976 with my mother, a Beijing native, to visit my grandfather. ... . Mao Zedong died three days after I arrived, and my memories are of traveling in a China gripped by emotional mourning and of a Beijing strewn with piles of rubble from the ruinous Tangshan earthquake. My visit to the Olympics this summer was my first to China in 19 years. The phrase I heard the most -- "Beijing de bianhua hen da!" (Beijing has changed a lot, eh!) -- was borne out daily.
Lenovo Vies for Big Win at Olympics
Los Angeles Times - Feb. 11, 2006SAN FRANCISCOAs athletes from 84 countries vie for Olympic medals in Italy, one Chinese competitor is aiming for a different kind of gold. Executives at Lenovo, China’s biggest computer maker, hope that being the Winter Games’ official computer supplier will boost recognition of what became the world's third-largest personal computer maker when acquired the PC business of IBM Corp.
Spying Case Underscores Rivalry of Asian Chip FIrms
Los Angeles Times - Jan. 3, 2005
SAN JOSE, Calif. – In a California court, Taiwan Semiconductor is accusing Shanghai-based SMIC of blatantly stealing its manufacturing secrets, and flagrantly poaching many of its key personnel.
Kenneth Lieberthal: China Reconsidered
Los Angeles Times - July 29, 2001
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – As a senior National Security Council official under President Clinton, Kenneth Lieberthal helped shape U.S. policy toward Asia, especially toward China and Taiwan. Lieberthal, a professor of Chinese politics and business studies at the University of Michigan, opposes confrontation and containment and advocates ongoing dialogue and engagement with China.
NEW YORK – Mao toasted with it. In 1957 Zhou Enlai anointed it China China
Waiters Grill Industry Conditions
Associated Press - Oct. 26, 1997
NEW YORK (AP) – There’s a festive look to Jing Fong, the biggest restaurant in New York’s Chinatown. The waiters, however, are not a happy lot. Jing Fong is at the center of a dispute over exploitation in Chinatown’s restaurant industry, where immigrants often do backbreaking work for less than a dollar an hour.
Deng Xiaoping’s Death: Mood in China Was Different in 1976 when Mao Died
Associated Press - Feb. 23, 1997
NEW YORK (AP) – Deng Xiaoping's death this week was greeted in China with sadness, curiosity or indifference, and little interruption to daily routines. But when Mao Tse-tung died 21 years ago at 82, one-fourth of humanity came to a standstill. I was 17 years old on my first visit to China, and I remember throngs of Chinese weeping in the streets, and the military going on national alert, fearing attack by the Soviet Union or the United States.
BEIJING (AP) – Mao Xinyu wears patched clothes and leads a quiet life at a prestigious Beijing university despite being the grandson of Mao Tse-tung, the revolutionary founder of communist China. But a black military limousine regularly glides up to take the descendant of the Great Helmsman to an expensive health club, or to his home, where he has his clothes washed and an army cook prepares "good food."
Student Activist Says Crackdown Crushed SpiritAssociated Press - July 2, 1989
Student Activist Says Crackdown Crushed SpiritAssociated Press - July 2, 1989
BEIJING (AP) – A student involved in China's crushed democracy movement looked out over Tiananmen Square on Sunday and mourned what he said was the death of his generation's campaign for a freer society. He gazed out over the immaculate _ and empty _ square from the rostrum of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, saying, "It feels as though I've died and come back again."
Survivors of Crackdown Tell Grim Tale of Violence
Associated Press - June 5, 1989
Survivors of Crackdown Tell Grim Tale of Violence
Associated Press - June 5, 1989
BEIJING (AP) – They lay on filthy mattresses caked with dried blood, their clothes torn, bandages hastily applied to bullet wounds. A grim story of carnage emerged as victims from Sunday's violence in Beijing recalled the Chinese army shooting, clubbing and even strangling its way through a sea of unarmed protesters.
Students Leaving Beijing, Say They'll Spread the Message
Associated Press - 27 May 1989
Students Leaving Beijing, Say They'll Spread the Message
Associated Press - 27 May 1989
BEIJING (AP) – Yang Jianjun says it is time to bring the spirit of the pro-democracy revolution that has convulsed the Chinese capital for the last two weeks out to the nation’s countryside. Yang, from northeast China, was one of thousands leaving Beijing Station Saturday to spread the word of the student-led protest in their home provinces.
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