Monthly Archives: October 2010
Photo: A fight next to a billboard lauding “harmonious society,” by Christopher Cherry
A fight next to a billboard lauding “harmonious society,” by Christopher Cherry
Kerry Brown: How China is Weaker than it Looks
Kerry Brown, a senior fellow with the Asia Programme at Chatham House in London, writes in the Diplomat:These days, many looking at China from the o
Paulina Hartono: Symbols: Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize
CDT’s own Paulina Hartono has contributed an essay to China Beat about the symbolism inherent in the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu X
“Live-Boiled Cat”
At China Dialogue, Zhou Yiyan reports the release of a documentary on China’s cat meat trade: The core demand is in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdon
China’s Other Billion: Sex and the Country
Following is the latest installment in a series of posts by journalist Rachel Beitarie*, who will be sharing with us dispatches from her journey acr
Daniel Blumenthal: Liu’s Nobel Proves China is More Than its Rulers
From Foreign Policy: Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo should remind the world of two things about China: one pessimistic
Open Letter from Party Elders Calls for Free Speech
China Media Project has translated a letter by several party elders, including former Mao Zedong secretary Li Rui and former People’s Daily edit
Chinese Mao Impersonators Are Devoid of Irony, Satire
Wired magazine’s Raw File photo blog features Tommaso Bonaventura’s pictures of modern-day Mao lookalikes: “They don’t belong to real agencies.” says
Silk Craft Fades in Village That Clothed Emperors
The New York Times reports on a declining craft in Zhejiang:Few products are as synonymous with China as silk. And for a time, no name was as synony
Tianjin by Numbers
For China Dialogue, Sam Geall gives a sum-up of the recent climate change negotiations in Tianjin: The United States and China, the world’s two
Why Won’t China Argue the Case for Locking up Liu Xiaobo?
In the Telegraph, Peter Foster explains one of the rationales put forth by the Chinese government for Liu Xiaobo’s imprisonment:I paraphrase,
U.S. Defense Chief Meets with Chinese Counterpart
The Los Angeles Times reports on a recent meeting between Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and his Chinese counterpart, Liang Guanglie, the first in
China’s CNOOC Tests US with Chesapeake Shale Deal
Reuters reports:China’s top offshore oil producer, CNOOC Ltd (0883.HK), will pay $1.1 billion for a stake in a U.S. shale oil and gas field, t
The Greatest ‘Sow’ on Earth: Tate is Carpeted with 100 MILLION Porcelain Sunflower Seeds in the Name of Art
The latest exhibition by Ai Weiwei has been unveiled at the Tate Modern in London, an installation composed of more than 150 tonnes of hand-painted ce
