Gao Fei is the pen name of a journalist from China now living and working in the U.S.
Following family planning riots and accounts of forced abortions, a spokesperson from the National Population and Family Planning Commission explains China’s one-child policy, downplaying its severity, and announces that single-child parents can have a second child. From Jongo News: Less than 40 percent of the population is restricted by the family planning policy to having […]
Read MoreChina animal lovers protest eating cats. Here, a cat is kept in a cage among poultry. Photo by DCF_pics.
Read MoreFrom Kotaku via CNET News: In a classic example of ‘missing the forest for the trees,’ the Chinese government has banned undead skeletons from World of Warcraft, insisting they be covered up with flesh. The9, the Chinese company that holds the license to operate WoW in China, complied with the order, as well as the […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Washington Post: China has kicked out more than 100 suspected foreign missionaries in a campaign to prevent proselytizing ahead of next year’s Beijing Summer Olympics, a U.S. monitoring group said Tuesday. The government launched “a massive expulsion campaign of foreign Christians” in February dubbed Typhoon No. 5, said the China Aid Association, […]
Read MoreHu Jintao and other high-ranking leaders appear in a sea of white dress shirts, conspicuously sans the usual suits, at a Central Party School meeting on June 25. Xinhua, the government’s official press agency, interprets for its readers the higher message, running a story that both reports and comments on the mass wardrobe shift. CDT […]
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