Monthly Archives: October 2009
China To Stop Mandatory Hepatitis B Tests: State Media
From AFP:China will stop mandatory hepatitis B tests for employees joining new companies and students enrolling in schools, state media said Sunday,
50,000 Short of Water in South China Drought
AFP reports on the drought in Guangdong province: More than 50,000 people in southern China’s Guangdong province are suffering from water shorta
Rwanda President Lauds China’s Role in Africa, Slams West
Rwandan President Paul Kagame praised China for its development assistance, while criticizing Western industrialized nations for their investment appr
Rights Lawyer Held for Four Hours over T-shirt
From the South China Morning Post: Guangzhou police took a human rights lawyer into custody yesterday afternoon, while he was hiking with friends, bec
Ian Buruma: China’s Class Ceiling
Ian Buruma is a professor of human rights at Bard College and the author of, most recently, “The China Lover.” From LA Times: Hong Huang i
Perry Link: China at 60: Who Owns the Guns
On the New York Review of Books new blog, Perry Link reviews the October 1 military parade and looks back at 60 years of CCP rule:Last summer, at th
The Red and the Black
From The Economist: Shortly before the 60th anniversary of communist China’s founding on October 1st, police in the south-western city of Chongqing op
The Founding of a Republic! Propaganda, or a Commercial Success With Some Irony?
Robert Woo from Global Voices takes a look at people’s feedback on the film The Founding of a Republic. The following translated thoughts from H
Man Sentenced to Death After Fatal Factory Brawl in South China
Xiao Jianhua, the man charged with instigating the toy factory brawl in Shaoguan, Guangdong that led to the July 5 Xinjiang riots, has been sentenced
Rare Books from China to be Digitized
A report from Boston.com gives information on the 6-year project between Harvard-Yenching Library and the National Library of China to digitize rare C
Chinese Dissidents Let Down By Obama Nobel
From AFP:China’s dissidents are voicing unease about President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, saying that the award could have been e
GM Sells Hummer To China Industrial Business
From Financial Times:China is set to gain a toehold in the North American car market through Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery’s ac
Kuerbanjiang Saimaiti (库尔班江): “Sorry, Your Ethnic Group Can’t Use the Internet.”
Kuerbanjiang Saimaiti (库尔班江), 27, is a student in the Communication University of China (Thanks to Sunny for the correct translation) and a photograp
Photo: Gansu Elementary School Classroom
A Gansu elementary school classroom, via David Hwang.
