Toys riffing on China’s hottest online idiom, “calling a rat a duck,” were yanked from online shelves this past week, a sign of the idiom’s continued political sensitivity. The tongue-in-cheek saying “calling a rat a duck”...
The Environmental Justice Foundation, an environmental NGO based in London, released a new report, titled “The Ever-Widening Net: Mapping the Scale, Nature and Corporate Structures of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The revelation of a scandal involving the illegal distribution of over US$88 million in improperly...
In December 2013, Xi Jinping launched an ongoing presidential image-crafting campaign at a...
At The New Yorker, Christina Larson looks at the Chinese public’s distrust of genetically...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
At the Los Angeles Times, Michael Meyer, author of “In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland...
In 2013, when Shuanghui International bought Smithfield Farms, America’s largest pork...
At the Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman looks at the town of Nanzhuang, south of Beijing, where hundreds...
DPA International reports that approximately half of all Chinese food plants inspected in 2014 has...
Cartoon band Whale Island (鲸鱼岛乐队) released its first single just after the Qingming festival, also...
This week, China announced a decision to begin liberalizing a millennia-old state monopoly on the...
As the OSI food safety scandal rolls on, with some McDonald’s restaurants reportedly selling...
As China faces the latest in a long line of food safety scandals, Nicola Twilley writes at The New...
毒大米 (dú dàmǐ): poison rice Rice that has been treated with toxic chemicals to increase its...
Yum Brands Inc.—the parent company that owns KFC, McDonald’s, and Pizza Hut—has faced its...
Effective last Thursday, the Chinese government has set new limits on the sale of foreign milk...
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