1st June 09

The New York Times

Shanghai Buys Itself a Makeover Before a Fair

SHANGHAI — Less than a year after Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics, Shanghai is gearing up for its own mega-event: the 2010 World Expo…. the city is planning to spend $45 billion, more than was spent on the Beijing Olympics,

Geithner Arrives in Beijing for Talks

BEIJING — Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner arrived here on Sunday for two days of high-level meetings aimed at forging stronger economic ties with China and coordinating efforts to cope with the global financial crisis.

Op-Ed Contributor
China’s Forgotten Revolution

By YU HUA
Published: May 30, 2009

THIS is the first time I am writing about Tiananmen Square. I am telling my story now because 20 years later — the anniversary is June 4 — two facts have become more apparent.

The Australian

The uprising China would have us forget

IN traditional Chinese culture the festival of Qing Ming marks the spring equinox: the time of regeneration, of budding and rebirth. In that ancient tradition, rebirth and remembrance are different facets of the same natural process. And so when, after the thawing of the frosts, you venture outside on Qing Ming to "tread on the greenery" afresh, it's appropriate also to tend to the graves of the departed, and to spare them some portion of your budding spring thoughts.