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The Sunday Telegraph ran an excerpt from The Real Toy Story, by Eric Clark, about the migrant workers in China making toys to supply the world’s children: The dominance of China in toy production is staggering. There are about 8,000 toy factories, employing three million workers, spread over six main areas, of which the Pearl […]
Read MoreChina Media Project has translated portions of an editorial in China Youth Daily criticizing domestic media’s coverage of the “nail house” story, saying the reports have been blown out of proportion. From CMP’s introduction: The China Youth Daily editorial, written by Lu Gaofeng (ÈôÜÈ´òÂ≥∞), suggests that some media have used (or abused) coverage of the […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: A small satellite developed by China will piggyback on the Russian launch of a spacecraft called “Phobos Grunt”, probably in October 2009… After entering orbit around the Red Planet, the Chinese micro-satellite will detach from the Russian spacecraft, and probe the Martian space environment, according to the statement. [Full text]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: His first venture, “Brush and Ink: The Chinese Art of Writing,” which ran from last September to January, brought together ancient masters of calligraphy with modern artists inspired by the visual possibilities of Chinese characters, like the abstract painter Wang Dong Ling and the conceptual prankster Xu Bing, who has […]
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