From the Guardian, another article about the rejuvenation of Confucius’ legacy in China: It has taken almost 2,557 years, but the family tree of Confucius, the philosophical father of Asia’s male dominated society, is finally going to acknowledge women. Female descendants will be recognised in a new lineage chart of the Chinese sage’s family – […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Chinese authorities have shut down an online survey that found most respondents would prefer a different nationality if they were born again. According to the South China Morning Post, two editors of the host website, NetEase, have also been fired in the past few days, prompting speculation that they have been punished […]
Read MoreThe Guardian seizes on Wen Jiabao‘s impending visit to the UK to summarize recent crackdowns on dissenting voices: The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, flew into London today amid rising international criticism of his government’s crackdown on lawyers, journalists, NGOs and civil liberties activists. In the most repressive phase since Mr Wen and President Hu […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: For a director who has just been slapped with a five-year film-making ban, Lou Ye(®ÑÁÉ®) appears remarkably unperturbed as he describes how he was hauled before the Chinese censors last Friday for a dressing-down that made headlines around the world. “I thought there would be some trouble, though not this bad,” he […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: On the northern outskirts of Beijing, an army of migrant workers is twisting and welding a 100,000-tonne tangle of steel into a stadium-sized bird’s nest. A short sprint away, the scaffold wrapping of a vast swimming centre has been partly peeled away to reveal a translucent bubble-like coating. Everywhere thickets of cranes […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: China’s economic boom is starting to reach the most remote corners of western China, giving millions of the world’s poorest people a chance to think about something other than where their next meal is coming from. But from the mountains of the Himalayas to the scrubland of Inner Mongolia, the quest for […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Shanghai has opened mainland China’s first shelter for internet addicts to help them bridge the gap between their virtual world and dysfunctional family homes. The inauguration of the halfway house yesterday highlights growing government concerns about the explosive growth of the web in China, where one in eight young net users are […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: A Chinese court has ordered two Japanese historians to pay damages of 1.6m yuan (¬£110,000) to a survivor of the 1937 Nanjing massacre whom they accused of fabricating her account. Although the ruling is largely symbolic because it has no force in Japan, the defamation lawsuit opens up a new front in […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The Chinese government is inviting bids from foreign tourists for the right to hunt endangered species under a kill-to-conserve campaign, a newspaper reported today. In the first auction, which will take place on Sunday in Chengdu, capital of the south-western province of Sichuan, the starting price for a permit to shoot a […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: A Chinese city has ordered the destruction of all dogs within a three-mile radius of a rabies outbreak – the second major cull in less than a week. Officials in Jining, the provincial capital of Shandong province, refused to reveal how many of the city’s 500,000 dogs would be killed in the […]
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