On the outside, Betsy Lueth’s school looks like any other in this arty neighborhood of Minneapolis: a sprawling, boxy red brick building with plain steel doors. Yet inside, the blond, gregarious Minnesotan presides over an institution unique in the heartland: Yinghua Academy, a charter public school where elementary students of every ethnicity study subjects ranging from math to American history in Mandarin
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Recipe for Food Safety
On Sept. 16, 2010, a team of U.S
With Women So Scarce, What Can Men Do?
Liu Dehai and Hai Hongmei’s matrimonial bed is laid with a thick quilt embroidered with the characters for “double happiness,” words meant to augur good fortune for just-married Chinese couples. This should be a room of joy and hope, but Liu’s mother doesn’t want anyone investigating too closely.
Books: Monkey’s Uncle
MAO AND CHINA: FROM REVOLUTION TO REVOLUTION by STANLEY KARNOW 592 pages.
China’s Orwell
In 2005, Penguin paid $100,000 for the English-language rights to Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem, a coming-of-age tale set in Inner Mongolia.
China Environmental Protests Gather Force Online
Hundreds of residents of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou took to the streets on Monday to protest plans to build a trash incinerator in their neighborhood. In front of the municipal headquarters for one of China’s largest cities, it was an unusually prominent place for a civic demonstration.
China Woos Africa And Not Just For Its Resources
On Oct.
China and U.S. move to defuse trade row
China and the US resolved several thorny trade disputes on Thursday even as Beijing confirmed it was investigating potential dumping of US-made cars in the Chinese market.
Chinese officials try to find parents of 60 lost children
In some of the photos, the young children are wearing bibs and slight smiles can be seen on their chubby faces. International military forces have been treating the case as a “potential hijacking,” Lt
Barcelona return to winning ways with Zaragoza rout
Champions Barcelona bounced back from a dismal week to return to the top of the Spanish league with a 6-1 crushing of Real Zaragoza on Sunday night. There they may be free from the hunter’s rifle, but they are not completely free from human contact or immune to the conflict between the two sides