The Chinese Foreign Ministry has confirmed our story about the arrest of a US citizen on a rare national security charge. A spokesman said after we posted this story that U Min Zin, an American scholar from Myanmar, had been arrested on suspicion of "espionage activities."
In 1981 David Hockney (1937-2026) visited China with poet Stephen Spender inspiring their 1982 book China Diary. Hockney explored landscape scrolls in his 1988 documentary film A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China, where Hockney examines a 72-foot-long 17th-century Qing Dynasty scroll.
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NEW: China arrested a US citizen after Trump met with Xi in Beijing and accused him of endangering national security — a rare charge against an American. The detainee, U Min Zin, is a graduate student at UC Berkeley who researches Myanmar. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...
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Second article in a series by Amy Hawkins on women's lives in today's China, this one dealing with the decades-long repercussions of the One-Child Policy.
While not limited to the field of history, women are critiqued & held to standards that men simply aren’t. The amount of work & effort it takes to research & write a book (& get it published) is huge. It should be celebrated. If the book isn’t for you, move on.
[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602,
I don't follow sports so I assume from the photos that the Ghostbusters defeated Gozer
