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‘The authorities will step up control’: where next for China after protests?

After mass demonstrations against Covid lockdowns, experts say Xi Jinping’s response will be a further gradual crackdown

The Guardian - UK

Cocoon by Zhang Yueran review – families warped by the state

China’s generational trauma and the long shadow of the Cultural Revolution are brought into the light in this precise and gripping novel

The Guardian - UK

Fracking: banned | Braverman: back | Fiscal black hole: shrinking but still massive

Have you noticed that virtually all male leaders – from elected prime ministers to murderous tyrants – wear a suit and tie these days? Whatever happened to juntas in military attire adorned with made-up medals or the classic Mao jacket?

Evening Standard

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The increasingly Leninist Xi Jinping must be talked down from confrontation

The coronation of Xi Jinping at the 20th Party Congress was both expected and dramatic. It makes him the most powerful leader of Communist China since Mao. He could be there for another 10 years at least.

Evening Standard

No women named to China's powerful Politburo for first time in 25 years

The new leadership is also packed with Xi loyalists.

Axios

China: echoes of authoritarian past as Xi Jinping cements his place at the heart of a Communist Party now entirely built around him

It has been suggested that the removal of Hu Jintao, Xi Jinping’s predecessor, from the closing ceremony of the 20th Communist Party congress could overshadow all other news from Beijing during the past week. Was there a health reason for this dramatic development – or was it a live purge,…

The Conversation

As Xi Jinping made a bid for power, his charismatic rival Bo Xilai loomed. Then came a murder in a hotel room

As Neil Heywood lay dying from cyanide poisoning, he could not have known the plot to kill him would shake the Chinese Communist Party to its core and dramatically alter the rule of Xi Jinping.

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What’s on the agenda for China’s 20th Communist Party Congress?

China’s economic woes and a historic third term for Xi Jinping will dominate Communist Party’s Congress agenda.

Al Jazeera

I found the best Chinese in Greater Manchester and it ruined crispy duck for me

This bronzed, shining beast arrives on a trolley in proud ceremony

Manchester Evening News

William Kentridge at Royal Academy review: Overstretched show doesn’t play to the artist’s strengths

A solo show in the RA’s Main Galleries is an honour – but one that doesn’t come without a degree of risk

The Independent UK

Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vásquez review – Mao, movies and me

From Red Guard in China to guerrilla fighter in Colombia … the extraordinary life of a film-maker is barely fictionalised

The Guardian - UK

Grant McCracken: The Rise of Artisanal Everything and 'Cruelty-Free Capitalism'

In Return of the Artisan, anthropologist Grant McCracken explains how we've shifted from an industrial to a handmade economy.

Reason

The Gate of Heavenly Peace

I hoped my aunt had found peace, even if the revolution hadn’t

The Walrus

Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control by Daniel Pick review

This brilliant exploration of psychological manipulation takes in both Mao’s China and the American dream

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Where tourists seldom tread, part 2: five great UK towns left out of the guidebooks

From Cumbernauld to Guildford, we celebrate more unheralded but revelatory areas

Reason

Tibet's armed resistance to Chinese invasion

Part 4: 1958—the Chushi Gangdruk unify the uprising

The Hindu

Amid chill in relations, new PLA history returns spotlight to 1962 war

The downturn in ties has coincided with greater interest in China in the 1962 war, which hasn’t been covered as extensively in the media as Korean War or war with Japan

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