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by Bruce Humes.
Comments on China's Silk Road legacy and image management
by Bruce Humes
Anyway, interesting. I may check it out when I have time. I really don't get censoring the whole Mongol history part. That's pretty lame.
I came across Cankao Xiaoxi myself this summer upon a recommendation from a teacher at Yunnan Normal University. I spent an evening reading about miscellaneous oddities: Sarkozy's photo op to remove that bit of flab protruding from his bathing trunks while vacationing in New England; the exhorbitant amounts of time China's youth spends online as opposed to the Japanese; the inside scoop on ex-KGB men running Putin's Russia etc. The funny thing is, I didn't figure out that all the articles were (edited) translations until later. This led me to be quite surprized at the level of frankness in an article on Sino-US relations - until I realized it was by one of the notorious "journalists" at USA today.
Besides that, the coolest thing I found was a bilingual op-ed by some Wall Street banker, the "practicing English" section of Cankao Xiaoxi. He rambles on in some of the bizarrest English - you know, the type filled with English idioms and catch-phrases that Chinese kids conjure up inappropriately in conversation - about the current age of decadence in the US, where youngsters are either short-sighted money grubbers on Wall Street, or hopeless authors of screenplays submitted to Spielberg. All this leads him to the conclusion that US society will not weather the next recession.
Keep up the good work.
Iacob Koch-Weser
This is a good article but i doesnt talk about the actual legacy