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Peng Shuai, China

A top Chinese tennis player makes allegations of sexual coercion against a top Communist official. “Why did you pressure me to have sex with you?” Now I feel like “a walking corpse.” A two-time Grand Slam doubles champion, Peng knows what will happen next: “like an egg cracking against a rock.” Peng disappears. Her social […]

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Li Na, China

On Painting Li Na: Some comments below taken from Debra Di Blasi’s emails to me: “It’s a bit socialist-art style, which I kind of like. (We have quite a bit of Vietnam and China socialist-style posters, prints and statues, so it was not a big leap.)” “The paper, by the way, is unbleached mulberry, which […]

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