About a month ago, the Chinese dissident Dong Guangping spent 36 hours at sea in an inflatable rubber boat with a sputtering engine, a peeling face and a dying phone before getting detained in South Korea. But on Saturday, Mr. Dong, 68, told The New York Times that he had flown to Toronto, ending a treacherous and decade-long search for freedom. He also recounted details of his voyage across the Yellow Sea from China to South Korea for the first time. Mr. Dong, a critic of China’s ruling Communist Party,…
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What’s in Our Queue? Mahjong and More
Chinese Football is an indie-rock band from Wuhan, a city that has become synonymous with Covid-19. This electrifying homage to the city tells us it deserves other kinds of recognition. As the seven-minute song gets to the coda, the beat suddenly stops, and I find myself singing along with Xu Bo, the band’s lead, belting out “Wuhan!” over and over. NYT