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Shepherd Laughlin
Shepherd Laughlin is a New York-based print and radio journalist. 

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Old media, new year: China’s CCTV woos the nation’s netizens

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February 2011

Shepherd Laughlin

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February 2011

The CCTV New Year’s gala broadcast, known in Mandarin as Chunwan, is probably the most massive media event you’ve never heard of: with an...

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November 2013

I Can’t Stop Thinking Through What Other People Are Thinking

David Shields

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November 2013

Originally, feathers evolved to retain heat; later, they were repurposed for a means of flight. No one ever accuses...

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January 2014

Afterword: The Death of the Translator

George Szirtes

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January 2014

1. The translator meets himself emerging from his lover’s bedroom. So much for fidelity, he thinks. 2. Je est...

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February 2013

The Currency of Paper

Alex Kovacs

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February 2013

‘Labour is external to the worker, i.e. it does not belong to his essential being; that in his work,...

 

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