Jonathan Ansfield reports for Newsweek magazine from Beijing, where he has lived for over eight years. His freelance work has also appeared in The Asian Wall Street Journal, Wallpaper, and The News York Times. From 2001 to 2004, he served as a general news correspondent for Reuters. His main area of interest is the Chinese media and its political and market roles in democratic change.
Jiangxi province…is facing a difficult dilemma between economic development and environmental protection. In this dilemma, environmental regulators also face a problem – of which “buttock” to sit on. The Songhua River disaster, last November, pointed to the conflicts of interests that cripple environmental regulators at the grass-roots. Top domestic publications gave bird’s eye glimpses of […]
Read MoreHow to catch a cadre in the act of being bribed? It’s a popular question in the Chinese papers in these lascivious times. Here, from yesterday’s China Youth Daily, is the rosy story of peasants in Guangxi province who pulled off the perfect set-up (link). The villagers of Huleitun, in the autonomous Zhuang minority region, […]
Read More…I cannot imagine that in fifteen years, I could manage not to ever visit the adoptive mother who reared me from a young age. Or that after becoming the supreme leader of the country, that I would not go in person to sweep the graves of my own father and mother, and instead would have […]
Read MoreWhen the sun rises, it shines first on the East. It doesn’t shine on the East and the West at once. That’s another scientific observation from ex-Shanghai party secretary Cheng Liangyu, according to a memo purporting to be the Xinhua news agency’s internal collection of some of his most self-compromising remarks. See Biganzi’s previous post […]
Read MoreIt’s not a bad day for Chinese journalists, relatively speaking, when they can run their own personal horror stories about getting harassed. In the past day, the horror story they’ve been talking about is Liu Wanyong’s. Liu, an investigative reporter for the China Youth Daily’s watchdog supplement Freezing Point, got a quite a fright on […]
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