Monthly Archives: January 2009
China Ushers in Year of Ox with Celebration (Updated)
From AP: China greeted the arrival Monday of the Year of the Ox with fireworks and celebrations, bidding farewell to a tumultuous 2008 marked by a mas
China Confirms Sixth Bird Flu Case this Month
A 29-year-old in Guizhou has contracted the country’s sixth case of bird flu so far in 2009. Four people have died from the disease so far in th
Peking University Law School Requires Students to Boycott “Charter 08″ (Translation Revised)
From Toutingditai blog, translated by CDT’s Lucy Lin: Since its release on December 9, 2008, Charter 08 has already obtained over 7,000 signatu
Video: Fireworks welcome the Lunar New Year over Shijiazhuang, by Fozza
Fireworks welcome the Lunar New Year over Shijiazhuang, by Fozza
The Bonfire of China’s Vanities
From New York Times： One cold afternoon last fall I met Yu Hua at the state-run Friendship Hotel in Beijing. Cheerfully, he described to me the incipi
Rights Group: Tiananmen Prisoner Held In Hospital
From AP: A former Tiananmen Square protester has been held involuntarily at a Beijing mental hospital for at least half a year, a human rights group s
Even College-Educated Chinese Feel Job Pinch as Economy Slumps (Updated)
Chinese university graduates face dismal job prospects as the global financial crisis has led to increasingly higher unemployment rates in China. From
Evgeny Morozov: To Stop Dissent, Call It Smut
Written by Evgeny Morozov, a fellow at the Open Society Institute, from Newsweek: China kicked off the New Year with another crackdown on the Internet
Video: On the Frontlines: Doing Business in China
ON THE FRONTLINES: DOING BUSINESS IN CHINA is a new video interview archive hosted by James Fallows, correspondent of the Atlantic. It includes the in
New Round of Judicial Reform
Caijing reporter Qin Xudong writes on the urgent need for legal reform in China and the problems ahead.But certain protocol common in developed cour
Photo: Yunnan Reflections
Reflections at Baishuitai in Yunnan, from denaro.
The World Will Feel China’s Economic Pain
China’s economy growth rates, at 6.8% for its fourth-quarter, are reason for alarm. From The Telegraph: The latest figures show that China’
China Slams Geithner’s Comments on Currency
Maureen Fan of The Washington Post reports on the response of a top Chinese banking official to Timothy Geithner‘s statement that “Preside
Now Hip-Hop, Too, Is Made in China (Updated)
From New York Times: A week before Americans tune in to the Super Bowl, another televised mega-event will kick off on the other side of the globe. On
China Reports 4th Bird Flu Death In 2009
From AP: A woman in China’s far west has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Health Ministry said Saturday, the country’s fourth de
