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Rebecca Kanthor

Rebecca Kanthor

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Correspondent, Plastics News

Shanghai Shi

Biography

Shanghai Correspondent for industry publication Plastics News. Contributing journalist to PRI's The World. Freelance journalist in print, radio and podcasting. China-based, Fluent in Mandarin.

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Climate Change and Environment, Gender Plastics and Chemicals, Food and AgricultureScience and Research, Society

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Haven't done any film/tv or music coverage

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Total articles 485

  • China’s small business owners hope for a new normal ‘after the Party Congress’

    By Rebecca Kanthor Verified| The World from PRX Verified The refrain, “after the Party Congress,” has been heard constantly in China. It refers to the idea that once this week’s official National Congress of the Communist Party meeting wraps up on Friday, maybe things will get back to normal after a series of strict pandemic lockdowns. Zhang Mancheng and his wife run a small sushi restaurant on a café-lined street in Shanghai. Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, they have had to close their four other restaurants one by one.

    By Rebecca Kanthor Verified · The World from PRX

    Oct. 21, 2022

  • A Yiddish revival is underway at this prestigious Chinese university

    By Rebecca Kanthor Verified| The World from PRX Verified Huang Zijing, 19, is a medical student at Peking University, but he also practices the aleph-beys, the Yiddish alphabet. Huang  took a class on Jewish culture last year at Peking — known as the Harvard of China — and became fascinated with klezmer music. Now he’s enrolled in the first Yiddish language course ever offered in China.  “It is a symbol of the history of the Jewish people,” he told The World.

    By Rebecca Kanthor Verified · The World from PRX

    Oct. 12, 2022

  • Electric vehicles are gaining popularity across China as govt creates incentives

    By Rebecca Kanthor Verified| The World from PRX Verified China started investing in new electric vehicles years ago. This year, about 25% of new cars sold there are electric. They're gaining in popularity, especially among the younger generation. Jenny Liu is a schoolteacher in Zhumadian in central China. With about 7 million people, it's still considered a small city. When she’s not working, her days are spent on the go, shuttling her kids around town. Liu drives a Seahorse, a Chinese brand mini-electric car.

    By Rebecca Kanthor Verified · The World from PRX

    Sep. 30, 2022

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Plastics News

Detroit, Michigan, United States

+1 313-446-6000