List of Culture articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will China Ban Katy Perry?
The American pop singer just gave a concert in Taiwan — while wearing a Taiwanese flag and a sunflower dress.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Asia’s Big Democracies Are Drowning in Campaign Cash
India and Indonesia must stem a tide of legal and illegal political money to restore their people’s trust in democracy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘I Am a Kwerekwere’
Life as a foreigner in xenophobic South Africa.
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A view shows actors during the filming of the set of the television series, whose title is loosely translated as "State of Myths" in Baghdad Two Islamic State Fighters Walk Into a Bar…
How Arabs are mocking the self-proclaimed Caliphate.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Political Animal
Günter Grass believed that it was the duty of writers to engage with the issues of the day.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Anger and Envy in the Chaebol Republic
Those who think South Korea is ready to turn on its powerful conglomerates are missing the point: This is a country both exasperated by its wealthy, and obsessed with them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Russian Literature Dead?
How the land of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy became a book lover's afterthought.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Now Viral in China: Tolerance
A short LGBTQ-themed film received 100 million online views over China's biggest holiday.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Good Girls Want Tattoos
Young women are increasingly turning to discreet, feminine body art to express themselves. It's still taboo, but who has to know?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’: Dickens on a war reporter and other scurrilous Americans
I picked up the Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit recently because I wanted to see what he said about the United States that he saw while touring in the 1840s.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Eat, Pray, Leeches
Narendra Modi wants India to embrace its traditional systems of medicine, like ayurveda and yoga. But can he convince rich Indians to treat their ailments with lead pills and squirming bugs?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Political-Cultural Impediments to Reform in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s difficulties in enacting reform can be traced in part to its political culture, which is proving resistant to change.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘House of Cards’ Needs to Read Up on Russia
"House of Cards" struggles to sustain credulity in the world of international politics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Word That Broke the Chinese Internet
The World Wide Web seems to be suffering from collective winter boredom.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The West: Source of All Evil, Including Chinese Scion’s Boob Joke
It's now fashionable to blame the West for all manner of social (and personal) ills.
