Monthly Archives: November 2010
Photo: Floating down the river, by Jeremy Barwick
Floating down the river, by Jeremy Barwick
Not Built to Last: Is China Overusing the Wrecking Ball?
Time Magazine looks at the transient nature of China’s cities: The ever-changing urban landscape has become a common scene in many Chinese citie
China’s Annual $26 Billion Diabetes Bill to Skyrocket, Researchers Report
Bloomberg reports on the economic costs of China’s looming diabetes epidemic:Diabetes accounts for about 13 percent of medical expenditures in
China Looms as Obama Tries to Strengthen Ties with Asian Democracies
A McClatchy report on President Obama’s recent trip to Asia was really all about China, despite the fact that the country wasn’t on his it
Ying Chan: How Hardliners Made Liu Xiaobo a Nobel Front-Runner
From Hong Kong journalist Ying Chan, from China Media Project: Conservative elements within the Chinese Communist Party are the most serious enemies t
G-20 Leaders Not Inclined to Compromise
The Los Angeles Times reports that there was no resolution made for a compromise on global trade imbalances at the Group of 20 summit: Leaders of the
Exclusive Interview with Cardinal Sepe: “My Impression of China is Very Positive”
Tim Hathaway translates a Southern Weekend interview between Zhu Youke and Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, former prefect of Congregation for the Evangeliza
Zhang Lei: 50 Cent Party Roams on Internet
Chi-Leung Lee translates a Changcheng Monthly (????) report on the history of the Fifty Cent Party, originally authored by Zhang Lei. Via Interlocals:
Perspectives on Poppies
From Evan Osnos in The New Yorker:British Prime Minister David Cameron, en route to the Group of 20 summit in Seoul, stopped in Beijing this week an
The Searchers
Time Magazine tells the story of Zhou Chengliang, a 27-year-old man who was kidnapped when he was six and raised by another family, and is now lookin
H.I.V. Discrimination Law Fails in Chinese Court
A court in China has ruled against a plaintiff who claimed he was discriminated against in a job application because of his positive HIV status. From
Understand Al-Qaeda, Understand China.
No longer fully distracted by its military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US is focusing again on China
That Nobel Invite? Mr. Malware Sent It.
The Nobel Committee, as it turns out, didn’t invite the author. A Nobel is going to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Please read the article
Photo: A man touches Buddha for good luck in Hangzhou, by Tom Spender
A man touches Buddha for good luck in Hangzhou, by Tom Spender
