4 January 2008

Stories from 4 January 2008

China: Standardized Steamed Buns

  4 January 2008

A hot topic is China these days is the news about national standard of steamed buns. Joel Martinsen from DANWEI has translated some of the discussions.

Kazakhstan: Forgotten Famine

  4 January 2008

Josh Foust reviews a book and a news report, which both cover Stalin’s collectivization and subsequent famine that killed nearly 2 million Kazakhs—about half the country’s population at the time.