Monthly Archives: June 2010
Rent a White Guy
From The Atlantic: Not long ago I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I’d never heard of. No experience necessary—which was
Uttam Kumar Sinha: Tibet’s Watershed Challenge
Uttam Kumar Sinha, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, writes in the Washington Post: While
BBS Post: State Council Says 98% of Internet Posts Harmonized?
Not only netizens with liberal political views oppose Internet censorship and state propaganda, both external and domestic. The following was originally
Sina Head Editor: Censoring Tweets – What A Pain!
From the tech86.com blog: “Controlling content in Sina microblogs is a problem which is a very big headache.” There — we’ve tried our best at verbati
Photo: Dancing in Beihai Park, Beijing, by stumptownpanda
Dancing in Beihai Park, Beijing, by stumptownpanda
In China, Unlikely Labor Leader Just Wanted a Middle-Class Life
From the New York Times: Tan Guocheng is hardly a self-styled labor leader. Age 23 and introverted, he grew up among rice paddies and orange groves far
U.S. Drops Inspector of Food in China
From the New York Times: The federal certification, the backbone of the organics industry, is aimed at assuring consumers that farmers and food manufacturers
Veteran China Journalist Paul Mooney
From Danwei: A chat about being a foreign journalist in China with Paul J. Mooney, who first came to Asia as a soldier in the Vietnam war, and has worked
New Japan PM to Visit China
From AFP: Japan’s new Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Sunday accepted an invitation from his counterpart in Beijing to visit China, during a telephone
China, Taiwan Reach Basic Agreement on Tariff Reductions
From Bloomberg: China and Taiwan said they reached a basic agreement on tariff reductions in a third round of talks to boost economic and trade relations. “We a
China’s Economic Data Challenges Its Yuan Stance
From Bloomberg: China’s gains in retail sales, consumer prices and industrial production countered the government’s assessment that the recovery isn’t “soli
Honda Replaces Strikers in China
From the New York Times: Factory managers began hiring a steady stream of replacement workers on Sunday, and a significant number of strikers went back
Eking Out a Living is Becoming Burden
From China Daily: In the mountains of Southwest China, where the unforgiving terrain can often make transport difficult, “stick soldiers”
Some Return to Work for Honda Amid Strike
The New York Times has the latest on the strikes at Honda parts factories in China: Takayuki Fujii, a Honda spokesman in Beijing, said that the parts
Ran Yunfei (冉云飞): Pathological Stability is the Root of Social Instability
Chengdu blogger Ran Yunfei, in a June 10th blog article that is being widely picked up on other blogs (see here), discusses the rapid rise in Chinese government
