From Danwei Blog: Here’s a story that combines the one-child policy debate with the current controversy over the value of traditional Chinese medicine in modern society. Four Chinese medical clinics have won a lawsuit brought against them by a patient who accused them of misdiagnosing her pregnancy. According to Beijing Times, in March, 2004, 44-year-old […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist Blog: Just recently, we came across a report from December 2006 about the lives of seven individuals, each making 1,000 yuan (US$128) per month, living in seven different Chinese cities. The cities included Beijing, Shenzhen, Xi’an, Changchun, etc., as well as our own city of Shanghai. The following is our translation of the […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The Washington Post: United Airlines won tentative approval on Tuesday to operate the first nonstop daily flight between Washington and Beijing, a 14-hour trip that links the countries’ capitals as their economies become more intertwined. The Department of Transportation’s final OK would give UAL Corp.’s United a route coveted by executives and […]
Read MoreEnvironmentalist and journalist Yongcheng Wang wrote the following column for Chinadialogue: The baiji, one of the world’s four species of freshwater dolphins, left the oceans 20 million years ago and settled in the middle and lower reaches of China’s Yangtze River. The baiji has existed for around 25 million years, far longer than the famed […]
Read MoreFrom Learning Cantonese Blog: Welcome to Shenzhen, the Tijuana of Asia. Yesterday my friend Leslie, a Korean-American who’s my oldest pal in Hong Kong, invited me on a perilous journey through the Lo Wu Seung Yihp Sehng, ground zero of the Global Fake Handbag Trade. I have been to Shenzhen exactly once, to have dim […]
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