The official Chinese media has reported on the revolution in Egypt, but has chosen to focus on the chaos surrounding the ouster of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in power. From the Los Angeles Times: The...
Read MoreLegal expert Stanley Lubman weighs in on legal reform restricting housing demolition. From China Real Time Report: n October 2010, thugs hired by a demolition company to destroy a house forcefully entered it and brutally...
Read MoreCaixin has a report on how local governments and developers often “trample on” the land rights of villagers and farmers: Local governments such as Tengchong’s must obtain permission from provincial government...
Read MoreChina has called for “emergency consultations” between North and South Korea to try to mitigate escalating tensions in the wake of the North Korean shelling of a South Korean island. From the New York Times: …The Chinese...
Read MoreCaixin profiles online critic and attorney Li Yinzhu. The article begins with a description of a meeting with a provincial official who demanded Li remove a blog post that called on China’s top Supreme Court justices to...
Read MoreWu Dongqiang, a county education director, was arrested after texting anonymous reports on his superior’s questionable ethics. Caixin reports on his story, and the politics of whistleblowing in China: Wu Dongqiang wanted...
Read MoreAn article in Caixin looks at the tensions between traditional and modern societies and universal values vs. the “China Model Theory,” and what these ideas mean for the future of China: Early this century,...
Read MoreHuang Guangyu, the imprisoned former chairman of Gome Electronics, has apparently lost the power struggle to maintain control over the company. From Caixin: Four proposals by Huang Guangyu, the imprisoned founder and the largest...
Read MoreSome Chinese factories moved inland in hopes of securing cheaper and more readily available land, as well as lower labor costs. Caixin reports on the impact of “industrial migration”: Inland cities and regions are...
Read MoreJapan Focus has an article looking at the recent spate of worker suicides at the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen as a form of protest against the “global labor regime.” From the abstract: A startling 13 young workers...
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