by Greg T. Spielberg Come the first day of school, roughly 600 Oakland County (Mich.) students will be tossing Chinese textbooks into their backpacks on the way to class. Over the past two years, the number of high schools offering Chinese has jumped from four to 23 out of the 28 districts in this Detroit-metro [...]

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Note: The blog, Beijing Haze, was dismantled two days after publishing this original post. The author of the blog has not offered any contact information but is aware of how to reach me, should she wish to request the deletion of “On the Arrest and Detention of a Man in China…As Documented by His Wife.” This [...]

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