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He got cut from Hamilton. Now he’s getting his shot.

A long-term resident of Beijing explains why tourists will be shocked by China’s transformation – if indeed they are ever allowed to return

Literature students from across the country will have the opportunity to present their work at the 37th annual National Undergraduate Literature Conference in a virtual format March 31 to April 2.

One recent weekend, I went for a walk through the alleys around the Qianmen shopping district, once Beijing’s commercial heart and still home to nationally known traditional shops. One of its chief side streets, Dazhalan, had been turned into a Ye Olde Pekinge-type street: its façades scrubbed and tarted up a bit too much but the famous stores still selling their century-old

There is no such place as Manchuria, but the word still resonates like a bell struck a century before. The region is now more prosaically called dongbei—the northeast—yet its contemporary toponyms sing of its imperial past, when it was the homeland of the Manchu, China’s last dynastic rulers: White Banner township, Princess Tomb City, and a river named Scaly Dragon, for the