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City Government Backs Hutong Revival

by Natalie Ornell | Oct 5, 2013

Oliver Wainwright reports for the The Guardian that Beijing Design Week architects have carried...

China Environmental Watchdog Blacklists Polluted Cities

by Xiao Niu | Oct 10, 2008

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) released the “2007 Annual Nation-wide Urban Environmental Management and Regulation Report” (《2007年全國城市環境管理與綜合整治年度報告》), which blacklisted Xinjiang’s...

BBC:Web demo launches hip-hop in China

by Sachi Fujimori | Mar 9, 2005

From BBC NEWS: A demo placed on the internet has triggered the initial success of one of China’s first hip-hop groups, Hi-Bomb. Hi-Bomb – composed of Lionel “Little Lion” and Shang Hao – rap in English, Mandarin and the Shanghainese dialect. Their success was triggered by Lionel placing a demo on the web – which […]