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Read MoreZhaohua Li
Zhaohua Li is an American-born independent journalist based in Beijing. He has written on Asia for the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle and Frommer's guidebooks, among other publications. He is currently also a Blakemore-Freeman fellow in Chinese language studies at Tsinghua University. His interests in China run from the energy and the environment to media and pop culture.
Minister: China’s Wealth Gap Widens – AP
Bad news for the Hu Jintao government’s efforts to ease the social disruptions of uneven economic growth. From the Associated Press via TIME: The average city dweller’s income was 3.28 times that of a rural resident’s in 2006, up from 3.23 times in 2003, Agriculture Minister Sun Zhengcai said in a report to China’s legislature, […]
Read MoreChina May Extend Eased Reporting Rules Past Games – Lindsay Beck
Noises coming from the top level of China’s propaganda apparatus suggest rules for foreign reporters, loosened this year in preparation for the Olympics, might stay in their slackened state past the big dance. From Reuters via the Guardian: “No document says that when this new regulation expires on Oct. 17 next year we are going […]
Read MoreChina Raises Tax Threshold To Ease Burden On Poor – AFP
From Agence France-Presse: China has proposed lifting millions of its citizens out of the income tax net to ease the burden on low-wage earners amid rising inflation, state press said Sunday. The country is expected to raise the monthly tax threshold from 1,600 yuan (218 dollars) to 2,000 yuan and the legislature was reviewing the […]
Read MoreThe Most Misread Person of 2007: Ang Lee – Qiu Liben (邱立本)
In a long and impassioned essay, Asia Weekly’s top editor takes critics on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to task for failing to understand what pan-Chinese director Ang Lee accomplished with his 2007 blockbuster “Lust, Caution.” Translated by ESWN: Never has any movie drew such extreme responses from the opposite sides of the political […]
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