Thick dust is choking the air and settling over every living thing in China. Linfen, China is probably the most-polluted city in Earth. Farmers wheat crops are diminishing due to dark, sooty, and hollow kernels. Crops like cotton too fragile to survive, via Digital Journal: The cause of all this is coal pollution. But nobody […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: …Over the past year, small new farmhouses have sprouted, looking incongruous among the southern region’s fields of sugar cane and karst mountains — similar to those in Guilin, one of top tourist attractions in China. High prices for the commodity in past few years had encouraged farmers to plant cane to the utmost. […]
Read MoreWall Street Journal’s page one story on liushou ertong (ÁïôÂÆàÂÑøÁ´•) (photo: left-behind children via BBC News): In a sparsely furnished farmhouse, about a half mile from a main road in the poor, rural province of Anhui, 16-year-old Zhao Yan has lived on her own for more than two years. She goes to school, tends to […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Wang Ji, a grade-four journalism student at the Guizhou Institute of Minorities, started writing the book two years ago. Covering such topics as the human body, pregnancy, love and cohabitation, the book is expected to be published by the Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House. Before its unidentified release, the book’s handwritten copy […]
Read MoreFrom Changsha Evening News via sina.com.cn, translated by CDT (photo: Li Haibin and his finance journal, via sina.com.cn): Li Haibin (Êùéʵ∑ÂΩ¨), one of the most educated 62-year-old farmers in his village, has been keeping a detailed finance journal all the years of his family of six, one of the most well-off at Huangxing New Village […]
Read MoreMore on the murder of journalist Lan Chengzhang, who was reportedly beaten to death while reporting at an illegal coal mine. From the Guardian: Police said they were not treating Lan as a journalist because he had not worked long enough to be formerly accredited. Local officials speculated that he may have been simply posing […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Late in 2006, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson led a large American delegation on a widely-publicized and closely watched mission to Beijing. It had to be a serious trip, for was not Paulson bringing along with him Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board? Yes, Paulson, Bernanke — and what […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: People tend to keep their distance from Jin Ping Mei(ÈáëÁì∂Ê¢Ö), at least in public. Its graphic sexual content has given the late-Ming classic a reputation as smut that it has been unable to shake off. Performers of pingshuÔºàËØщπ¶Ôºâ, the art of storytelling, have conquered great classical novels as well as more contemporary tales […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Shanghaiist: …A Shanghai tea house whose name translates roughly as “Frog Keeps a Mistress” has been deemed a threat to public morality and told to get a new moniker, local media said Friday. The “Qingwa Bao ErnaiÔºàÈùíËõôÂåÖ‰∫å•∂Ժ┠shop was violating China’s advertising law, the Shanghai Daily and other newspapers said, citing a […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Human rights conditions in China deteriorated significantly in 2006, with about 100 activists, lawyers, writers and academics subjected to police custody, house arrest, incommunicado confinement, pressure in their jobs and surveillance by plainclothes security forces, a new report by Human Rights Watch said. Several widely publicized cases involving journalists and rights […]
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