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CDT was sent the following account of the Shalan flash flood (Note: The author, Xiaorong, is not CDT Guest Blogger Li Xiaorong). The essay is based on an article written by a Chinese journalist, which was posted on a BBS but...
Read MoreFrom ABCNews.com: It’s one thing to use your near-monopoly in a market to play hardball with competitors, it’s quite another to be a lickspittle to tyranny to enhance your bottom line. Some background: As reported by The Associated Press, bloggers that use the MSN Spaces section of Microsoft’s new Chinese Web portal and type in […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Today, via the Chinese Law Prof Blog: Lawyer Pang Biao brought a lawsuit to Daxing District Court of the People’s Republic of China against HuBei Expressway Co. ltd on May 9, because it took him nearly two hours to get through the whole JingJinTang expressway which is operated by the company, instead of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: …Something momentous has just happened: Penguin Modern Classics has for the first time allowed a work of 20th-century Chinese fiction on to its list. After skulking for decades in small, academic or, more disastrously, communist Chinese presses (the threadbare Panda Books), translated fiction from China has, 50 years after a similar gesture […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily has given their take on Google’s entry into China: Signs have shown that the once arrogant Google has paid more and more attentions to Chinese market. Sources from the company say Google has gained approval from Chinese government to put up branches in China. The office location in Shanghai has been fixed. Google […]
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