Word: exoticize
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--Paleontologist Andrew Knoll shares pictures from his personal album of Siberia and other exotic places he has visited in search of very old bones
When I was stationed as a journalist in Beijing in the late 1980s, I was stunned by how citizens still viewed non-Chinese as exotic, often frightening creatures. When I visited the northern city of Hengshui, one of what were then hundreds of areas officially "closed" to foreigners, a local...
This was a China that sought to dominate the region. On one journey, as recounted in Louise Levathes' 1994 book When China Ruled the Seas, Zheng He put down an uprising in Sumatra and brought the rebel chief back to Nanjing for confinement; the Emperor had the man executed. On...
Madagascar, with its bright-eyed lemurs and forested hills, has tried hard to buoy its ailing economy by attracting Chinese investment. The nation's free-trade zones are dotted with apparel factories run by Chinese overlords and staffed with Chinese contract laborers. Last year, Madagascar doled out 600 visas to...
Shopkeeper Zhu's father began his exotic-animal trade 40 years ago and passed it on to his son. But at the present rate of carnage, there will be little left when Zhu's 11-year-old son takes over the business. For one thing, there may be no black...