On the Chinese internet, wall-to-wall state media coverage of the Chinese Olympic delegation’s departure for the 2024 Paris Games has been met with a shrug. With 405 Chinese athletes slated to compete across 236 events,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
BBC science editor David Shukman writes that “China is on a trajectory that will see it...
At the Paris Review, Molly Crabapple and British author Warren Ellis discuss how the...
For the latest installment in his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm visits recent news of more than 3,000 dead pigs found floating in the Huangpu River outside Shanghai. While the cause of the pigs’ death is...
While parents whose children died in the Sichuan earthquake are suing government officials and contractors, some lighter post-quake news is being reported, in the form of a miracle pig. From the New York Times blog: In the weeks...
A commentary from the Beijing News translated by CDT: From January 1, 2009 onward, pig farming will be banned in all of Dongguan City, a leading manufacturing base in Guangdong Province. A Dongguan official made this announcement at a working conference about cleaning up pollution from the poultry industry. Many counter the government decision, saying […]
A man sells a pig in a village in Jiangxi, by Liu Jianfeng
The soar in the price of pork, along with other meat, this spring may signal the beginning of inflation, according to this story from International Herald Tribune: Few things are as essential to the Chinese as their pigs. From pork spare ribs and mu shu pork to char siu bao – barbecued pork buns – […]
Two piglets compete in a swimming race, part of the “Pig Olympics”, by Natalie Behring
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