DISPATCH from BEIJING
Featuring Jeff Brown’s Special Reports
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A SPECIAL SELECTION OF ANCILLARY MATERIALS ON CHINA AND THE PACIFIC BY DISTINGUISHED OBSERVERS
Cross-linked with China Rising Radio Sinoland, SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio and iTunes.
JEFF’S PRINCIPAL WEBSITE TODAY IS CHINA RISING
Jeff also podcasts and conducts interviews himself on 44 Days Radio Sinoland and can be heard at SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio and iTunes. In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin. Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the globe. This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries. He then returned to America for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife, where he writes, while being a school teacher in an international school. Jeff is a dual national French-American. Jeff can be reached at 44 Days, jeff@44days.net, Facebook, Twitter and Wechat/Whatsapp: +86-18618144837
Turkey Orders Chinese Take-Out Defense
Death of Indian Working Elephant “Bijlee” Starts Global Movement
Russia and China Prepare for Global War
The Two Faux Democracies Threaten Life On Earth
Noam Chomsky: Are We on the Verge of Total Self-Destruction?
Report from Turkey: A Taste of Tahrir at Taksim
China’s fake Paris: the mystery of the ghost towns
Freedom Rider: Crushed by Capitalism
Chinese defence paper warns of US “hegemonism”
The Mindset of North Korean Elites
The High Cost of Cheap Meat
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