China Rising
The Globe and Mail has published a special edition that focuses almost entirely on China and includes articles about modern Shanghai, migrant workers, the environment, China’s spiritual vacuum, sex, drugs, and...
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Last known writer of coded women’s script dies
The IHT published an obituary of a woman believed to be the last person to be fluent in a rare script used for secret communication among women in Hunan Province: “The script, Nushu, represents the language spoken in Jiangyong Prefecture in southern Hunan. Women, who were denied education for many centuries, used it to share […]
Read MoreChina leads the world in number of DSL lines
BBC quotes DSL Forum and reports that China has more DSL lines than any other country in the world. But the 13 million lines only reach 1% of China’s massive population. The story attributes the drastic development to growing online gaming community and the use of broadband in education. It also notices that the expansion […]
Read MoreChina Visit of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detension
While welcoming certain gestures by the Chinese government, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concludes after a visit to China that its recommendations in a 1997 report have not been implemented: “Namely, the provision which stipulates that everyone shall not be consider guilty until convicted has not been amended to clearly stipulate the presumption […]
Read MoreDissecting China’s far west
In Asia Times, Colin Mackerras reviews a new book, Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland – Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus, a collection of essays edited by S Frederick Starr: “Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland is not the first book to focus on Xinjiang… However, it is the first to take an all-round view on Xinjiang […]
Read MoreFor the real Shanghai, look under the hood
In an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune today, Philip Bowring writes that despite its glitzy facade, Shanghai is representative of the endemic problems plaguing the Communist Party: “As well as the most shiny example of China’s new ‘socialist’ construction, Shanghai is also an example of vast waste of public funds and the locus of […]
Read MoreVested interests, ignorance aid China’s tobacco industry
In an interview with the AFP, a WHO official says that healthcare costs will escalate in China as a lack of education and the government’s vested interests encourage the country’s smokers. One in three of the world’s smokers live in China. More than 1 million people die in China every year from tobacco-related illness; the […]
Read MoreA List of Censored Words in Chinese Cyberspace
It is an open secret that all Chinese Internet hosting services, including wireless and instant messenger services, filter user communication through key word blocking mechanisms. But overly vague and broad Chinese internet laws...
Read MoreOfficial Denounced for Posting Letter Alleging Corruption in Communist Party
Also from today’s Washington Post: “……The party functionary, a 52-year-old former farmer with a middle-school education, captured the national imagination with his complaints because most Chinese are all too aware of the official corruption that has accompanied the last 25 years of economic liberalization. The tale of a county-level party secretary recounting his struggles against […]
Read MoreChina faces six problems in population structure （People’s Daily)
July 11 is the “World Population Day.” A Chinese population official aid that China now faces six major problems in optimizing population structure. These problems are: 1, Serious gender imbalance in newborns; 2, Population with born defects remains high; 3, Population aging; 4,Social problems caused by population migration, such as children left behind in rural […]
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