Monthly Archives: February 2010
Senior N.Korea Official Arrives in China
A top North Korean official is visiting China, AFP reports:A senior official of North Korea’s ruling communist party arrived in China Tuesday
Cheng Li: China’s Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012 Part 1: Provincial Chiefs
In Stanford University’s Hoover Institute’s China Leadership Monitor, Cheng Li writes about the upcoming leadership transition and how it
Slideshow: Images from the Lunar New Year in Liuzhou, Guangxi, by Expatriate Games
Images from the Lunar New Year in Liuzhou, Guangxi, by Expatriate Games
The Mystery of China’s Labor Shortage
The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Blog looks at reports of a severe labor shortage in China’s manufacturing centers: So where have
Artists Demonstrate in Downtown Beijing
Ai Weiwei and other artists who had been assaulted by thugs for protesting forced eviction from an artist colony held a protest in Beijing today. Glob
IT Groups Warn Chinese on Regulation
Financial Time’s Kathrin Hille reports from Beijing: The US and the European Union are pushing China to soften or drop plans for compulsory cert
Corndog Speaks on ‘War of Internet Addiction’
The creator of the viral hit “War of Internet Addiction,” a satirical take on government controls over online gaming, spoke to the Wall St
Huntsman Feels Heat in China
The Salt Lake City Tribune interviews Ambassador Jon Huntsman, the former Governor of Utah, about recent tensions between the U.S. and China:Like O
Hong Huang (洪晃): Censorship and Political Dystopian Fiction as Marketing Concepts
Online lingo about government censorship and political dystopian fiction have become marketing concepts for a mainstream fashion magazine in China. H
Li Yizhong (李毅中): Internet Information Security Facing Severe Challenge
From the Sina.cn Technology Channel, translated by CDT: News from the morning of Feb. 22: Li Yizhong (???), the Party Secretary and Minister of Indust
Hacking Inquiry Puts China’s Elite in New Light; US Experts Close in on Google Hackers
Following revelations that the cyber attack on Google and other corporations may have originated at two Chinese universities, the New York Times takes
Zhang Boshu (张博树): An Insider’s Account of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
ChinaGeeks translates an article by Zhang Boshu, political philosopher and constitutional scholar, about his experiences at the China Academy of Socia
Shanghai Dreams
From a National Geographic profile of Shanghai:Every city has a rhythm, a pulse that makes it move. In Shanghai, one of the fastest growing megaciti
Photo: Chinese Viagra: Recommended by the General Logistics Department of PLA
One never know what kind of “military secrets” will be found when you Google around in Chinese cyberspace. The following photo shows a pac
Chinese Mass Murderer Sentenced to Death
From 9 News (Australia): A Chinese man was sentenced to death for murdering 13 people including three police officers over more than a decade, state m
