Minitrue: 21 Rules on Coverage of the Two Sessions
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Shi Yongxin
Badiucao (巴丢草): Shaolin Vows and Zhejiang Crosses
In a recent cartoon, Badiucao focuses on two ongoing cases related to the state control of...
Religious Affairs Bureau to Probe Shaolin Abbot
The abbot of Henan’s Shaolin Monastery, the Chan Buddhist institution famous for being the...
Shaolin’s Shi Yongxin, Angel or Devil?
Abbot Shi Yongxin, who runs China’s famed Shaolin Temple, has been digging the pay dirt for the prestigious monastery for years. However, his operating ideology that made Shaolin thrive financially is sometimes condemned...
Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Hoohah
Film star Jet Li’s planned promotion of Tai Chi around the world, backed by Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma, is no mere business venture. Rather, it is an heroic attempt to boost China’s currently feeble...
Town Asks Kung Fu Monks for Tourism Blessings
The New York Times writes about the town of Guandu, in Yunnan, where the commissioner of ethnic and religious affairs became discouraged when renovated Buddhist temples failed to generate tourist income: Mr. Dou found a savior...
Bloggers Criticize Shaolin Temple for Refusing Entry to Beijing Olympics
From DWNEWS.COM and Sohu Blog, summarized and translated by CDT: An Chinese old saying reads, “Shaolin Kongfu defeats the world.” This sentence perhaps needs to be changed. As host of the Olympic Games, Beijing will successfully add “Martial Arts” into its “Ad Hoc” program, hoping to demonstrate Chinese Wushu’s (martial arts’) spirit in a profound […]
Shaolin Temple goes commercial – Guo Qiang
From China Daily: Shi Yongxin, the abbot of Shaolin Temple, widely considered the birthplace of Chinese Kung Fu, spends most of his day greeting corporate executives, government officials and friends from all over the world and dealing with dinner invitations and business instead of shepherding all disciples. When Henan officials presented Shi with a spectacular […]
Kung Fu Monks Go Modern – Ching-Ching Ni
From the Los Angeles Times: Shi Yongxin wears a bright yellow robe and heavy prayer beads and lives in an ancient shrine high up in the mountains of central China. Yet he spends a lot of his time traveling in a chauffeur-driven jeep, jet-setting around the world and hobnobbing with Hollywood types. No wonder some […]
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