Monthly Archives: January 2010
Photo: Harvesting and shifting barley in Rikaze (Shigatse), by reurinkjan
Harvesting and shifting barley in Rikaze (Shigatse), by reurinkjan
Jerome A. Cohen and Yu-Jie Chen: Taiwan’s Criminal Defense Lawyers and China’s
From US-Asia Law Institute: The Chinese government’s continuing attacks on human rights lawyers rarely make foreign headlines these days. Monitoring,
In Arizona, a Stream of Illegal Immigrants From China
Arizona is home to many Mexican immigrants who have illegally crossed the border, but smugglers are now handling increasing numbers of Chinese immigra
Microsoft Knew of IE Zero-Day Flaw Since September
From threatpost.com: Microsoft today admitted it knew of the Internet Explorer flaw used in the attacks against Google and Adobe since September last
U.S. Launches First Trade Probe of 2010 Against China
From Reuters: The U.S. government will investigate charges that Chinese companies are selling oil well drill pipe in the United States at unfairly low
James McGregor: The China Fix
From Time magazine: In my more than two decades in China, I have seldom seen the foreign business community more angry and disillusioned than it is to
China to Seek Stability in Tibet via Development
The New York Times reports:President Hu Jintao and other leaders at a Tibet planning conference decided that “more efforts must be made to greatly i
Anupam Chander: China Road: Which is the Right Path?
An article in the San Francisco Chronicle looks at the potential scenarios if Google leaves China and Microsoft stays:This month American Internet c
Google Aims to Stay in China
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, reiterated the company’s intention to remain in the China market, despite the recent declaration that they would ra
Photo: A scene in a Hong Kong restaurant, by Tom Spender
A scene in a Hong Kong restaurant, by Tom Spender
China’s Avatar Restrictions Cause a Stir
The closure of the blockbuster Avatar, which has been replaced in Chinese cinemas with the epic Confucius, has generated much discussion of the possib
Han Han: “From Now On, I’m a Vulgar Person”
ChinaGeeks has translated a blog post by Han Han about the recent order banning “vulgar” text messages:Aside from sending pornographic t
Publish or Perish in China
The journal Nature has an article about academic pressures and misconduct in China. Only the first paragraph is available without subscription on the
“Looking Back at Those Years”: Yang Zili’s Memory Tweets
Siweiluozi’s blog has translated a series of tweets by writer Yang Zili, a founding member of the New Youth Study Group who spent eight years in
Perry Anderson: Sinomania
In the London Review of Books, Perry Anderson discusses three new books about China in the context of a new fascination with the country in the west,
