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Students of color benefit from having teachers who share their racial or ethnic identification, writes May Hara. But increasing teacher diversity is an especially urgent issue for Asian Americans, the ...

Yunte Huang, who has written two other books on Asian American cultural icons, said he is drawn to complex characters whose contradictions reflect the country’s fault lines.

Yunte Huang, who has written two other books on Asian American cultural icons, said he is drawn to complex characters whose contradictions reflect the country’s fault lines.

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Businesses fear that efforts to look tough on Beijing, which have the potential to be more expansive than moves by the federal government, could have unintended consequences.

In Washington, the White House and federal lawmakers are pursuing ways to constrain Chinese-owned businesses like TikTok amid a bipartisan push to limit China's reach. Now state legislators have ...

Political tightening and an anti-espionage law make it harder for outsiders to gauge the situation. How accurately can insiders do so?
A spate of recent statistics shows that the Chinese economy is faring poorly. The country was supposed to rebound after ditching its draconian “zero Covid” policies, but, after an initial revival, things have gone awry. Earlier this month it . Key indicators, including industrial production, investment and retail sales, came in .
The most concerning figure, however, is the one that we can’t see. The youth unemployment rate the monthly economic data release, having reached a record 21.3% in June – suggesting not only that July was grimmer, but that improvement is not expected soon. The government has in recent years. While there are many reasons for that, and while some may still be released to data firms, it has probably helped to bury some bad news, and makes it harder to cross-reference information. Chinese economists are also under pressure to .

Canadian anthropologist who joined Mao Zedong’s rural revolution and stayed on to build a ‘new China’
The pioneering anthropologist Isabel Crook, who has died aged 107, was the last survivor of that generation of sympathetic westerners who joined Mao Zedong’s rural revolution and stayed on after 1949 to build a “new China” – with mixed fortunes.
During (1966-76) her husband was accused of spying and imprisoned for five years, while Isabel was locked up for three years on their college campus. The couple retained their belief in the post-Mao leadership of the Communist party until, horrified by the Beijing massacre in Tiananmen square (1989), they spoke out against it.

The new law requires state agencies that currently collect figures on race and ethnicity — be it the demographics of those receiving food stamps or COVID-19 boosters — to capture a more granular level ...

A profit warning from housebuilder Crest Nicholson compounded fears of a housing market slowdown, as Rightmove data revealed a further drop in asking prices
AJ Bell investment director Russ Mould said that while weak house price data (as was “hardly a surprise”, Crest Nicholson’s profit warning has “laid bare the the scale of the impact of a housing slowdown on the housebuilding sector.”
Sales of new homes have plunged alarmingly and, while not all developers in the space are created equal, the news, allied to Rightmove’s latest reading on the property market, has had a knock-on effect on share prices in the rest of the sector this morning.
The £7,000 drop in the average asking price observed by Rightmove in the last month, allied to a big drop in transaction volumes, is the kind of statistic to make estate agents distinctly uneasy.

China wants to expand the five-nation bloc, but the members’ conflicting interests may get in the way.

Some blame falling global demand, but borrowing by government and property sector has held back growth
The 2008 financial crisis in the US kicked off a , which spread to Europe in 2010 and has recently engulfed many of the world’s low-income and lower-middle-income countries. Could the of Country Garden, the behemoth Chinese real estate developer now facing , augur the cycle’s next turn?
The answer remains unclear. While the Chinese authorities have a remarkable track record when it comes to containing economic crises, the challenges posed by a significant growth slowdown, combined with high debt levels – especially for local governments and the property sector – are unprecedented.