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ESWN has translated an essay “Taishi Village, My Neighbor” by Ai Xiaoming, which was “originally published in edited form in the Freezing Point weekly supplement in the Chinese Youth Daily, and then published in full at the Yannan Forum (note: the original has been deleted, but a copy is preserved here)”: The first time that […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Among Chinese Supreme Court justices, Jiang Zhipei stands out as an extrovert. ¬† Unlike his more secretive colleagues, he takes guests on tours of the heavily guarded Supreme Court building, talks in eager stretches that are light on political slogans, lectures frequently and runs a Web site devoted to his […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Beijing Media, the first Chinese state-owned media company to sell shares to the public, said two of its vice presidents and four other employees have been detained in Beijing. Advertising department head Yu Dagong and two of his subordinates were being held on suspicion of bribery […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A million dollar wedding isn’t a novelty in the eastern metropolis of Shanghai nowadays, while a pot of turnip tassel was served at the lunch of a five-member rural family in Anhui Province some 400 km away. China’s wealth gap has been widening to a dangerous level, warns the Chinese Ministry of Labor […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: At one end of the rail yard, mechanics with two-foot-long wrenches fuss lovingly over the workings of a handful of black steam locomotives, while other workers load them up with coal or wipe their huge, cylindrical air compressors clean with large rags. The men in the old yard seem more […]
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