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.
www.theguardian.com
More women are rejecting state pressure over their reproductive choices, amid the devastating legacy of the one-child policy
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.
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."
[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602,
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.
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Paperback of THE HAVES AND HAVE-YACHTS arrives this week, alongside history's first trillionaire—a fortune 5 million times the median American family’s net worth. Thanks to @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @newyorker.com
and everyone who has spent time with these stories.
Edward Wong
At @equatormag.bsky.social, Joe Sacco discusses the experience of having his new book on the Muzaffarnagar riots pulled by Penguin Random House India, as well as how the Muzaffarnagar story has broader relevance for political violence elsewhere.
Paul French
The graphic novelist discusses his research into rising political violence – in India and around the worldwww.equator.org
I don't follow sports so I assume from the photos that the Ghostbusters defeated Gozer
Yangyang Cheng
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...
