Matt Sheehan
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June 3, 2015
JIANLI, China — Forty-eight hours after an Eastern Star cruise ship sank into the muddy Yangtze river, rescue crews continued a desperate search for hundreds of missi...
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June 2, 2015
WUHAN, China -– The eyes of the Chinese people are fixed on the Yangtze River, where Monday evening a cruise boat capsized in what could be the worst maritime disaste...
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June 1, 2015
BEIJING — These are not the Chinese athletes you’ve seen on TV, those scarily synchronized divers or the gymnasts plucked from preschools for their bone structure. ...
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May 28, 2015
A growing number of American students are studying in China, and they’re returning to the U.S. with more positive impressions of the country, according to a recent su...
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May 20, 2015
HANGZHOU, China — While Silicon Valley grapples with a major gender gap in its workforce, Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba, said Wednesda...
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May 12, 2015
ORDOS, China — The man running the Genghis Khan Grand Prix fits the bill. With a healthy paunch of a belly and a bearded face always threatening to break into a smile...
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May 8, 2015
Matt Sheehan writes and consults on topics connecting China and California. He worked as the China correspondent for The WorldPost from 2014 to 2016, and lived in the c...
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May 4, 2015
ORDOS, China — This is a city that was built too big for its britches. Rising up from vast deserts of northern China, Ordos is an oasis of 21st-century glamor, one th...
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May 1, 2015
BEIJING — When Ma Fahong approached the immigration desk at Los Angeles International Airport, the customs agent had only two questions for her. “Why are you coming...
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April 29, 2015
The models stood on the streets of Shanghai, dressed in ripped clothing with dirt smudged across their faces, carrying beggar’s sticks and asking for food. They held ...
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April 29, 2015
Matt Sheehan writes and consults on topics connecting China and California. He worked as the China correspondent for The WorldPost from 2014 to 2016, and lived in the c...
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April 22, 2015
Maybe, just maybe, there’s a light at the end of this smog-filled tunnel. Two years after the Chinese government declared “war on pollution,” the air in Beijing a...
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April 20, 2015
WULING SHANZHUANG, China — It’s 11 a.m. on a smoggy Friday in Beijing, and a busload of computer programmers is abuzz with chatter about smartwatches. The Apple Wat...
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April 16, 2015
It was a rare and beautiful instance of pure, unadulterated goodwill in the relationship between the United States and China: For the past few weeks, police departments...
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April 15, 2015
SUZHOU, China — Walking through WinSun’s show lot in the Suzhou Industrial Park, one gets a glimpse of the past and possible future of building construction. Views ...
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