From the Guardian (link): Every year, 8.5 million Chinese peasants move into cities. Most of their destinations are mere specks on western maps, if they appear at all. But their populations put them on a par with some of the world’s megalopolises. Britain has five urban centres of more than a million people; China has […]
Read MoreFrom The ABC News Online: Twelve miners are trapped after a fire broke out in a coal mine in south-west China’s Guizhou province. The fire began at about 11:20pm local time on Saturday at the Xiangshui Coal Mine located in Panxian county of Liupanshui city, Xinhua news agency quoted the Guizhou Provincial Coal Mine Safety […]
Read MoreESWN has translated two articles from the Chinese press about AIDS in China. From China Youth Daily, “Visiting an AIDS Village in Northern Anhui“: 55-year-old Lu Jingxian sat by his lonesome self on the side of the bed, chewing on the dried bun like an expectant mountain goat bleating away. In the early 1990’s, he […]
Read MoreBehind closed doors on Nov.18, Communist Party potentates marked the 90th birthday of late party chief Hu Yaobang, whose untimely death spirited to life to the Tiananmen Square protests (see Reuters coverage). But the decision...
Read MoreFrom The Japan Times: These are interesting times in China. The political climate is changing; it has been for some time, but now the direction of change is becoming clear. The man who provided the intellectual underpinnings for Deng Xiaoping’s dramatic post-Cultural Revolution reform and opening-up program, and who provided the ideological basis for describing […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: BEIJING –A Chinese artist who grafted the head of a human fetus onto the body of a bird has defended his work as art after a Swiss museum withdrew the piece from an exhibit. “It’s precisely because I respect all life that I did this,” artist Xiao Yu said Tuesday. He said […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post posted a video clip of the Shengyou attack. (registration required). Editor’s Note: This video contains violent content. washingtonpost.com presents the original, unedited version as it was received. A farmer in Shengyou, China, videotaped hundreds of armed men attacking a group of local farmers. According to witness accounts, the group was resisting government […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Undeterred by the cloud-swept Easter skies, thousands gathered in the square outside the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai’s Pudong area. Some had come from nearby cities like Nanjing and Hangzhou, and some from as far afield as Beijing. The Chinese Metropolitan Folk Music Festival, the first of its kind, […]
Read MoreOn March 22, more than 500 activists for human rights and democracy in China, many of whom reside inside the People’s Republic of China, sent an open letter to EU Secretary General Javier Solana and President of the European Commission Jos√© Manuel Barroso. In the letter, they urge the EU to maintain its postponement of […]
Read MoreThanks to David Cowhig for sending the following to CDN. It is a valuable introduction to a very important topic. Here is David’s email: Just today I read a chapter from the August 2004 book Undercurrents: Criticisms and Reflections on Narrow-minded Nationalism [Qianliu: Dui xia’ai minzuzhuyi de pipan yu fansi]. This book, edited by Le […]
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