What to make of Qiu Xiaohua’s abrupt removal from his job as China’s chief statistician? No one really knows for sure yet. Last week’s tersely worded Xinhua news agency item sounded an alarm bell that something was amiss. Word around Beijing is that Qiu will not be reassigned: he committed a “severe disciplinary violation” (‰∏•ÈáçËøùÁ∫™). […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Like many Chinese intellectuals during the recent economic boom, Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, a husband-and-wife team of writers, mostly ignored their ancestral homes in the countryside. No one, they described themselves as thinking, wants to read about peasants in the era of skyscrapers and designer bags. Happily for themselves […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for sending the following to CDT: Google Trends counts Google searches on a given topic, charts them over time (now only from mid 2004 to the present), and compares the search numbers by top localities. A discussion on the MicroPersuasion Blog about Google Trends is here and Google explains […]
Read MoreThe following was first published in The China Journal, No. 55, January 2006. An excerpt from this article also appeared in the CDT Bookshelf. Thanks to Mr. Barm√© for allowing CDT to republish it in its entirety here. I’M SO RONERY Geremie R. Barm√© He’s Back With the accession of Hu Jintao to the dual […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for the following: These are good articles on avian flu from Caijing magazine from mid October and early November issues (the original Chinese versions are available here and here). The...
Read More“China’s Ministry of Education reports that the number of Chinese students studying abroad grew from 39,000 in 2000 to more than 117,000 last year. Not all return to China, but for the many who do this rise in foreign-educated job seekers entering the market coincides with a comparable glut of domestic graduates. Good white-collar jobs […]
Read MoreToday the OpenNet Initiative released a new report about Internet censorship in China. While a number of studies have established that China blocks search results about certain political, cultural, and religious subjects (see this report, for example), the new study takes the investigation a step further by looking at China’s filtering of the Google cache. […]
Read MoreThe author of this essay is an American who works in China for CCTV. Ann Condi is a pen name. Princeton professor Perry Link’s words: it is “the most penetrating analysis I have seen on the psychology of the...
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