From the Financial Times, via A Glimpse of the World blog (link): Anomalies abound when we think about China’s economic transition. How, for example, has it achieved record-beating growth while lagging badly on institutional reforms? Although an initial pioneer in embracing market reforms, China today has fallen behind most former Soviet bloc countries, its large […]
Read MoreThe following was posted on Soho Xiaobao BBS (link) (translation by CDT): This is a collection of twenty independent reports of real cases [of suicide resulting from inability to pay school fees]. Every year, from July to...
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): China has shut down two websites vocal in criticising market-oriented reforms amid a Communist Party crackdown on expression. The Asian nation has some of the strictest web controls in the world, with rigid registration procedures for websites and a special police force monitoring its 110 million web surfers round the clock. It […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Before handing over to my colleague Jonathan Watts in 2003, I covered a range of important stories to which I had been alerted by excellent reporting in the Chinese press or TV. There were powerful exposes of mining and environmental disasters linked to official corruption, of the plight of migrant workers cheated […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: The discipline watchdog of the Communist Party of China (CPC) pledged heavier crackdown on corruption and other acts violating the CPC’s disciplines, according to its work report released Monday. “The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC punished 115,143 members last year, accounting for 1.7 per thousand of the party […]
Read MoreFrom The Taipei Times: In his book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman, a US columnist who has served as a visiting professor at Harvard, sounds a warning about China’s economic growth. According to Friedman, China will very quickly reach a point at which further economic growth will be impossible unless political reform takes place. […]
Read MoreFrom Project Syndicate, via The Taipei Times: Writing in Shanghai in the 1930s, China’s great essayist Lu Xun(È≠ØËøÖ) once observed: “Today there are all kinds of weeklies. Although their distribution is not very wide, they are shining in the darkness like daggers, letting their comrades know who is attacking the old, strong castles.” Muckraking broadsheets […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via A Glimpse of the World: These are dark days for China’s media as the communist government, increasingly nervous about social unrest, intensifies control over what can and cannot be reported to the public, shutting down newspapers and sacking journalists who question its authority. But analysts and journalists say that the tighter it […]
Read MoreFrom The Wilson Quarterly, via A Glimpse of the World: When China first intrigued America, in the late 18th century, we desired its tea and silk. The American missionaries and traders who reached Canton and other ports did not trouble to reflect on what China might want of us”nothing more than the Christian gospel and […]
Read MoreFrom Luo Yonghao’s blog on sohu.com: (translated by CDT, links embedded by CDT) I hope all good people have a happy new year, I hope all bad people have a miserable new year; I hope all people who are not so good and not...
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