The Shanghai Daily reports about the criticism of Western news organizations’ misrepresention of events in Tibet. The Chinese public is venting its spleen online over inaccurate reports about the Tibet riots by some...
Read MoreWhile discussion of the recent riots in Tibetan areas and their aftermath is being strictly policed on the Internet inside China, a number of Chinese bloggers (many of them living overseas) have started to weigh in. Responses...
Read MoreTang Danhong 唐丹鸿，(born in 1965 ) is a poet and documentary filmmaker from Chengdu, Sichuan. She has made several documentaries in and about Tibet since the 1990s. She wrote the following essay this week and published it on her...
Read MoreThe Washington Post looks at how Chinese who have been living abroad face the changes at home when they visit for Spring Festival: Huang, 36, is a “sea turtle,” one of the thousands of students who return to China...
Read MoreThe Indo-Asian News Service profiles Kapil Gautam, a 27-year-old Indian yoga instructor who moved to Shenyang in 2006: Having mastered Japanese and Spanish in Delhi University, Gautam came to China two years ago to study a new language. He ended up in Shenyang town, about 700 km northeast of Beijing where temperatures dip in winter […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Communist China has introduced new rules that appear aimed at controlling the selection of the next Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual head. Most Tibetans believe that eminent monks, such as the Dalai Lama, are reincarnated after death. China, which governs Tibet, will now have the final say over who can be selected […]
Read MoreWith Beijing’s 798 art zone morphing from obscure artist hide-out to slick market place, one provincial government decides to lure some of the capital’s art producers with a deal they can’t refuse. From The New York Times: For years their work could not be exhibited in China, but now the country’s leading contemporary artists are […]
Read MoreIn a long and intriguing essay in this past week’s Economic Observer (ÁªèʵéËßÇÂØüÊä•), former Party newspaper man Zhou Ruijin (Âë®ÁëûÈáë) reminisces about his role in reinvigorating Deng Xiaoping’s market reforms during the down years after June 4th. As deputy chief ed of the Liberation Daily (ËߣÊîæÊó•Êä•), Zhou was the author behind four breakthrough editorials that […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Amid a growing furor over toxic food and drug exports from China came signs last week that the Chinese government is cracking down. On Tuesday, China released a study showing that nearly one-fifth of food and consumer products sold to its own people are tainted or substandard, suggesting that items sold […]
Read MoreAsia Times looks at the “brain drain” as China loses some of its brightest talents overseas: A recent study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the nation’s top think-tank, shows that China is losing more first-rate minds to the West than any other country in the world. The phenomenon amounts to a new […]
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