From statesman.com: Villagers in this hamlet of squat houses in southern China’s Guangdong province say red is the color of cancer. The local Laza River has been stained russet by waste from upstream mines in recent decades. The number of residents dying of various forms of cancer has spiked: Since 1998, 19 of 26 deaths […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China is to introduce steps to punish famous and wealthy violators of its one-child policy, senior officials say. The move came in response to complaints from ordinary people that the rich were having more children because they could afford the fines, officials said. Measures could include recording violators’ names and making them […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s two fixed-line telephone operators have sealed a deal intended to limit competition and leave each in control of its core markets, according to a company official and local media. The deal between the parent companies of China Telecom and China Netcom highlights contradictions of interest inherent in the country’s state-controlled but […]
Read MoreIn his new book, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, James Mann, author in residence at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and former Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Beijing, throws into question the conventional wisdom about China’s future. In Mann’s view, U.S.-China relations have […]
Read MoreSince author Zhang Yihe published her “My Statement and Position” on Janurary 19, 2007, many intellectuals and ordinary citizens have publicly expressed their support for Ms. Zhang in cyberspace. The following...
Read MoreCoverage of Lan Chengzhang’s killing will not die. Both China Newsweek and Oriental Outlook Weekly weigh in with cover features this week. Oriental Outlook opens from a particularly fresh and unflattering angle: the murderers’. It’s worth picking up a copy, because the piece is not available on the Web. (More on that below). The Shanghai-based […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: On January 1, 2007, the Chinese government loosened restrictions on the media, including those that limited the freedom of foreign journalists to travel and conduct interviews in the country. Shortly after, the Paris-based press watchdog Reporters Without Borders announced an end to its boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Foreign media began […]
Read MoreChinese educator and columnist Wu Fei (Âê¥Èùû) has a doctoral degree in news and communication from the National University of Moscow in Russia and currently teaches at the department of journalism and communication at Xiamen University. He wrote the following sarcastic but revealing essay on his blog. Last week’s Southern Weekly republished it in the […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia, via ncn.com, translated by David Kelly: The 21st century Economic Herald recently published a report entitled “New target of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions: 10 million rural migrant workers...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China could soon overtake the US to have the world’s largest number of internet users, according to a state-controlled think-tank. “We believe it will take two years at most for China to overtake the US,” an official at the China Internet Network Information Center told state media. China had 137m internet users […]
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