CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Chin describes a visit to the Forbidden City by Judith...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Reuters reports that a man displeased with the results of his nose operation stabbed a doctor to...
Licensed to operate in mainland China earlier this year, the auction house Christie’s has...
Beijing’s acting mayor has announced an array of new measures to combat air pollution in the city, following heavy smog that seeped hundreds of points off the scale this month. From Xinhua: The capital will take 180,000...
Caixin reports on the mounting structural disrepair of the Palace Museum and the mismanagement that may be to blame. A sense of dignified peace is what most visitors take away from China’s 600-year-old royal palace, the...
When a number of precious objects on loan from a Hong Kong collector were stolen from the Forbidden City, the art world was taken by surprise that artwork in Beijing’s major museum weren’t more carefully guarded....
Discovery’s documentary “7 Wonders of China” introduces Terracotta Army, Hanging Temple, the Great Wall, Shi Bao Zhai Temple, Mount Wudang, Leshan Buddha and the Forbidden City, via Youtube: Part One: Part Two:...
China Rises and Shanghaiist blogs both discuss the new coffee shop that has replaced Starbucks in the Forbidden City, after the presence of Starbucks raised the hackles of a TV host and numerous bloggers. They also included a photo of the former Starbucks’ current look in the Forbidden City. For a more in-depth look at […]
From Hong Wang, translated by CDT: The Forbidden City‘s Jiuqing Chaofang has once again been connected to coffee, as a new cafe has opened at the former site of Starbucks cafe. Seven years ago, when the American Starbucks company opened its coffee shop here, Jiuqing Chaofang became famous. Two months after Starbucks left, the Forbidden […]
Youtube carries a series of explanatory videos of painting and calligraphy, which “are the most vivid visual record of Chinese traditional civilization and national spirit.” Part 1:
Below is a video clip carried by Youtube showing The Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square in Beijing:
From The Seattle Times via Danwei: Starbucks closed its store in Beijing’s Forbidden City today after months of controversy over the U.S. coffee-shop chain doing business there. The decision followed the Forbidden City’s announcement that it wants to operate all stores inside the former imperial palace, which is now a museum. “We have respectfully decided […]
From Reuters: A member of China’s parliament has demanded the immediate closure of a Starbucks coffee shop set up inside Beijing’s Forbidden City, the Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. Two months after a television host launched an online campaign to evict Starbucks Corp. from the former home of Chinese emperors, the seven-year-old store has […]
From The Financial Times: Starbucks could be banished from Beijing’s fabled Forbidden City amid complaints that the presence of the ubiquitous US coffee shop chain in the former imperial palace constitutes an “affront to Chinese culture”. China’s official media said on Thursday that a low-key Starbucks outlet near the rear of the sprawling Palace Museum […]
From Letters From China: Whereas CCTV host urges Starbucks to get out of the Forbidden City, Luqiu Luwei(Èóæ‰∏òÈú≤Ëñá), Phoenix TV reporter, asks in her blog: how did Starbucks enter the Forbidden City? (in translation): It seems to be a big story now. Of course, it is good to see people care about the protection of […]
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