I'd like to thank whoever subscribed me to News China, a glossy magazine whose title pretty much says it all. There's lots to read in the August issue, including a report on extremist violence in the far-western province of Xinjiang, a lovely travelogue on the tea harvest in Zhejiang province, and a spirited defense of Chinese Muslim barbecue, or chuanr, in Beijing, where authorities have scapegoated vendors of live-coal-charred lamb skewers, blaming them for the city's awful pollution.…
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