Scandal


Scandal and Art and ChinaMarch 4, 2009

So finally, we have a resolution to the international dispute over two Chinese bronze heads that sold last week as part of Yves Saint Laurent’s estate sale. The statues, that Beijing claims were looted from China nearly 150 years ago by foreign aggressors, were sold to a Chinese bidder Cai Mingchao, who paid $40 million […]

Scandal and ChinaDecember 9, 2008

Germany’s Max Planck Society is one of the most reputable scientific research institutes in the world, overseeing world-class exploration in the natural, physical and social sciences that has earned its scientists 17 Nobel prizes since 1948. However, the editorial staff that heads up the Max Planck Forschung, the German-language top scientific journal that publishes […]

Scandal and ChinaOctober 20, 2008

Due to a rough run of laziness and a resistance to the serious, upsetting side of Chinese news, I never wrote anything about China’s baby milk scandal, you know, the one where 94,000 children became terribly ill from being fed melamine-laced baby formula. But a story broke Monday that I just couldn’t resist and felt […]

Scandal and ChinaFebruary 16, 2008

The “Bodies World” exhibit, the more reputable of two leading museum exhibits using cadavers to show the inside of the human body, pledges to stop using bodies from China. Dr. Gunther von Hagens told 20/20 tonight that he found that some of the bodies used for the exhibit had injuries consistent with execution. […]