The story started when a Buzzfeed editor lost his iPhone in an East Village bar in February of last year and blossomed into the Sino-American romance of the century, and probably the most up-lifting and altogether unlikely China story that we can remember. It features Apple products, global crime networks, human flesh search engines, the draw of instant celebrity, and Ellen DeGeneres. Who can resist the cross-cultural romance of Matt Stopera and Brother Orange?
Joining Kaiser, Jeremy and David us to talk about this phenomenon and its backstory and are two guests who’ve seen it unfold from the inside: Matt Sheehan, China Correspondent for the Huffington Post, who wrote about the saga, and Cecilia Miao, agent for Brother Orange and creator of Channel C, a community for Chinese students who have studied abroad.
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by Lian Xi
This article was first published in the December 22, 2011 issue of
This autumn, China has been marking the one hundredth anniversary of the collapse of its last imperial dynasty, the Qing, with a series of grand celebrations. The government has released an epic film showing how the revolution of 1911 prepared the way for the Communists’ takeover in 1949. It’s also just opened a museum about the uprising in the Yangtze metropolis of Wuhan where the revolution started. And the National Library in Beijing is hosting an exhibition with the not-so-subtle title “Awakening of the East.”
These celebrations have focused on the political implications of the Qing’s fall, but the 1911 revolution was a major change in a less obvious realm: the spiritual. This might seem obscure, of interest perhaps only to specialists in religious studies. In fact, China’s religious upheaval around 1911 is central to its last hundred years of tumult, helping to explain the fanatical to
Can MOOCs Really Benefit Your Career?
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Can MOOCs Really Benefit Your Career?
As MOOCs witness a new surge in popularity, Anne Trumbore of Darden School of Business explains what taking free online courses can, and can’t, do for your career
Anne Trumbore of Darden School of Business reveals evidence that MOOCs can help in a professional setting
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers like Coursera and FutureLearn have been riding a wave of job security fears caused by automation and digital disruption, increasing their reach and revenue.
Coursera is valued at around $2.5 billion after raising another $130 million venture capital in July 2020. And in a global higher education market worth $2 trillion, the coronavirus pandemic has also given a boost to MOOC providers.
by Tamir Sorek
(Stanford University Press, £20.99)
THIS is an unusual biography of Tawfiq Zayyad, not least because it is about a Palestinian communist and is written by a US-based, Jewish-Israeli social scientist.
The renowned Palestinian poet and activist was a leading member of the Israeli Communist Party for over four decades and was elected mayor of Nazareth before becoming a member of the Israeli Knesset, serving for 18 years. He died in 1994 at the age of 85.
The book s author Tamir Sorek openly questions his right as an Israeli Jew and non-communist to write such a biography. But his admiration and respect for Zayyad, even though he never met him, is unquestionable and he was given full access to Zayyad’s family and comrades and exhaustively mined many archival sources.
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