From FEER Forum: When historians of the future look back on 2007 from a decade or so down the road, what will they single out as the year’s big China story? They’ll certainly have plenty of options to choose from, since the international press has carried a dizzyingly wide range of China headlines lately, dealing […]
The Chinese Law Prof Blog has translated a list of top ten legal stories from 2007 according to the official Chinese media: The China Court Net (中国法院网), the People’s Net (人民网), and CCTV International (央视国际) have collaborated to produce lists of last year’s top ten legal news stories, law cases, and people in the legal […]
Thanks to Dr. David Kelly for the translation: 2008 is the thirtieth anniversary of China’s reform and opening up. No one expected that 30 years later China would host the Olympic Games, still less that it would become the world’s second largest economic entity, not only putting the global growth rate to shame, but even […]
CDT’s Year in Review 2007 (rollover for captions, click for stories)
From Xinhua: The following are the top 10 domestic news events in the year 2007 selected by Xinhua (in chronological order): 1. China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), adopted a landmark property law on March 16, granting equal protection to public and private properties. 2. Serious pollution caused a sudden stenchy algae outbreak […]
Translated by CDT from Southern Breeze magazine: To Chinese environmental officials, scientists and NGOs, 2007 has been the worst year, and the best year. It’s the worst year because of a spate of major environmental cases across the country: the blue algae bloom in Lake Tai, the rat disaster around Lake Dongting, the near-failure of […]
From ESWN: “If there is something that you don’t understand, just remember that this is China and you will understand!” The following list of ‘jokes’ was compiled by a Tianya netizen named Laome2018 (via Sohoxiaobao). These ‘jokes’ are not funny at all; in fact, they are solemn and dismal. But these are extraordinary times in […]
Overseas Chinese political analyst Liang Jing wrote a new commentary piece on politics in 2007, translated by David Kelly of East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore: As 2007 draws to a close, which political developments will have major future impact? In my view, the dramatic decline of the influence of Hu and Wen topped […]
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