Tim Lesle is a freelance journalist and student at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. His personal website is telesle.net, his personal blog is here.
The cover story of Mother Jones surveys the major environmental problems plaguing China. Anyone who has followed this issue won’t find much new (see CDT’s work on China’s Environmental Crisis). But the story has an engaging narrative thread, in which writer Jacques Leslie searches for signs of all of the above with a guide named […]
Read MoreBusiness professor Prakash Sethi has spent the last several years monitoring the working conditions in Mattel’s Chinese toy factories. Jonathan Dee writes in the New York Times Magazine: If Mattel were simply a greedy or sloppy company that got caught doing something it shouldn’t and paid the price, its story, and Sethi’s, would be a […]
Read MoreGoogle as both brand and verb seems to be lost in translation in China, write Janet Ong and John Liu (via Ireland’s Independent): “G-O-O-G-L-E is not a normal Chinese spelling and people don’t pronounce it right,” Kai-fu Lee, Google’s president for Greater China, said in an interview in Beijing. “Most people call us ‘go go’.”. […]
Read MoreXinhua describes the joint Chinese and Indian military operation “Hand-in-Hand 2007,” taking place in Kunming: [Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang] said that the training aimed to enhance mutual understanding and mutual trust between Chinese and Indian armed forces, strengthen their exchanges in the field of anti-terrorism, deter the “three evil forces” of terrorism, separatism […]
Read MoreWhile one frustrated fan has famously sued, many more movie-lovers have gotten around the censorship of Ang Lee’s award-winning film Lust, Caution by going to Hong Kong to see the full version. So writes Howard French in the New York Times: Travelers have made their way to Hong Kong to see movies before, of course, […]
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