Monday marked the official observance of Learn From Lei Feng Day in China, a holiday initiated by Mao Zedong in 1962 which turned a dead young soldier into a folk hero, and the central government has revved up the propaganda...
Read MoreResidents of Wukan, the village in Guangdong province which garnered global attention in connection with violent land grab demonstrations late last year, went to the polls Wednesday to select a committee to oversee the election...
Read MoreThe liberal Southern Media Group held the “China Dreams” award ceremony to honor recipients who, according to the group’s statement, “represent our times, in which we dare to dream, can dream and are fulfilling...
Read MoreAs part of the campaign of “cultural reforms” to promote the development of “socialist culture” that were discussed in an October plenary session of the CCP Central Committee, China has officially ordered...
Read MoreRecently, Xie Zhiqiang, the director of a Chinese municipal health bureau, was found using a micro-blogging site to chat with his mistress (Jiang). The two were having intimate conversations on the site without knowing that it...
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post Blog, by Hayley Tsukayama: Chinese politician Xie Zhiqiang has found himself in hot water after using Sina’s Weibo, a microblogging site similar to Twitter, to set up a liaison with a woman believed to...
Read MoreChina Dialogue translates an interview in Southern Metropolis Daily with urban preservation expert Zhang Song about the Shanghai Expo and its impact on the city: Zhang Chuanwen: For the first time, the theme of the World Expo is...
Read MoreIn the post-Olympics China, another round of media crackdown is clearly underway. Still, the Southern Metropolis Weekly just profiled 20 of the most influential bloggers and commentators in China’s cyberspace, who possess...
Read MoreFrom AP via CNN: That round-eared mouse dancing with kids? Not a copy of Disney’s Mickey Mouse, the Shijingshan Amusement Park Áü≥Êôر±Ê∏∏‰πêÂõ≠ insists. And that raven-haired woman with seven men in elf suits? Not Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs…. “We do not have any agreements with Disney,” its deputy general manager, Yin Zhiqiang, said […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Globe and Mail: A Chinese roadside sausage seller was given a suspended death sentence on Tuesday for slitting a government inspector’s throat in a case that gripped the nation and highlighted a yawning wealth gap. Cui Yingjie (Â¥îËã±Êù∞), 23, killed Li Zhiqiang with a fruit knife in suburban Beijing last August […]
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