From The Washington Post, via A Glimpse of the World: People and organizations create statistics for a purpose ” to call attention to a problem, or to argue for a policy change. Americans consume vast quantities of statistics every day. Most zip in and out of our brains, but others somehow take root in the […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via People’s Daily online (link): Chinese Olympic table tennis champion Chen Qi says he feels like a “new person” after completing the last set of punishments for losing his temper in an international competition. The 21-year-old had already made an open apology, was drilled in a military boot camp and handed out […]
Read MoreFrom OhmyNews International (link): The story is a Chinese version of Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, but this time digital signal processors (DSP) were being faked, rather than human embryonic stem cells. Last Friday, for scientific fraud, Chen Jin, a 35-year-old former top computer scientist and professor at China’s famous Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was exempted […]
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net (link); The number of websites registered in China reached 2.6 million at the end of last year and 1.1 million of the websites are with “.CN” domain name. The websites increased by 40 percent in terms of number last year, said a report released by the Informationization Office under the State […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online (link): A strange custom of every Communist Party of China leader is for them to come up with their own theory or “ism”. Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping had their own respective variations of Socialist theory. Jiang Zemin has his Three Represents. And what about the current Chinese president Hu Jintao? […]
Read MoreFrom Houston Chronicle (link): Like most young Chinese people of her generation, He Wei grew up in a hutong, a maze of narrow streets and alleys lined by tiny residences and leading to a central courtyard. “You felt really close to your neighbors,” she says. “We looked out for each other, helped each other. But […]
Read MoreFrom Rocky Mountain News (link): The images that come out of China in 2006 trumpet growth, from massive resettlement forced by the booming Chinese economy to construction projects that herald the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Forty years ago this year, though, China was not the giant flexing its economic muscles: It was the country in […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online (link): About 40 sporting goods stores do business in a clump right outside the gates of the Wuhan Institute of Physical Education in the giant Yangtze River city’s college quarter. The mostly single-room stores on both sides of Luoyu Road, an arterial street in Wuhan, try to out-price one another on […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post (link): The Chinese government has decided to slow down an explosive increase in the number of college students in recent years, saying the growth has produced bulging campuses, overworked professors and graduates unable to find suitable jobs. Overpopulation at Chinese universities has emerged as the latest in a string of problems […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily (link): CHINA’S former Minister of Culture, Liu Zhongde, criticized the popular TV show Super Girl for “harming youth education” and blamed the TV industry authority for poorly supervising the program, People’s Daily reported on its Website today. “Though Super Girl is warmly welcomed by audiences, the viewer market really can’t decide on […]
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