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The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time

4 October 2010
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Have you ever wished you could go back in time to see a town or city as it “used to be”? Cities like Ancient Rome, Athens, and Tenochtitlan? What about China’s Forbidden City?
Thanks to a collaboration between IBM and the Palace Museum, you may explore this aspect of Chinese culture and history online via [...]

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China Battles the “Information Barbarians”?

31 January 2010
China vs. Google and the Information Curtain

Ian Baruma has a thought-provoking article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, entitled, “China Battles the Information Barbarians“. The author puts Google management’s decision to stop cooperating with Chinese censors and their threat to close down its operations in China in historical context. According to Baruma, the Chinese government has battled Western Information Imperialism since the [...]

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