“My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy,” said Cai Guo-Qiang, the first Chinese artist to have a solo show at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, in a profile of the artist in the February 17...
Read MoreIn Beijing, where one million people are disabled, only seven percent have gainful employment and few have promising futures. However, a performance troupe of 88 deaf and disabled dancers, musicians, and artists are succeeding...
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio : At the Datong coal mine in Chongqing Province, as in mines all over China, they are working around the clock. At least a couple of times a week, (and certainly with an American reporter preparing to...
Read MoreImaging you were hosting a dinner party(not a potluck)and your friends brought and ate their own food, how would you feel? If U.S. athletes ship their own meat to China for the Olympic Games, it will be like a slap in the face...
Read MoreFrom Financial Times : China Mobile , the world’s largest mobile phone operator, is weighing up an expansion in Europe. The group, which opens its European, Middle Eastern and African headquarters in London on Thursday, aims to...
Read MoreEdison Chen, the Hong Kong singer, publicly apologized and announced his resignation for his responsibility in taking the sex photos and causing harm for the victims. Here is his talk on Youtube:
Read MoreIn recent years, China has become the largest trade partner of North Korea, which suggests how important China is to North Korea. From Asia Times: It will take decades before the relevant papers will become de-classified, but it...
Read MoreA top Chinese official spoke about Chinese religion, as a response to the intense international criticism. From AP: A senior Chinese official is trying to calm U.S. misgivings ahead of Beijing’s coming Olympic Games about...
Read MoreIn Sports Illustrated (which has a licensing agreement with the IOC for the Olympics), S.L. Price takes the IOC to task for failing to live up to its promises to promote human rights in China: It is six months before the start...
Read MoreMore digging in the heparin case. Is China really responsible? From the Wall Street Journal: In a small, damp factory here, blood-smeared men wring pulp from pig intestines, then heat it in concrete vats. The activity at Yuan...
Read MoreThe Financial Times has followed up on the nascent land rights movement, and found the “loose association of journalists, academics, intellectuals and political activists” who coordinated the farmers’ actions:...
Read MoreEarlier this month The Times ran a profile of Tianjin and its aspirations to become an economic powerhouse in the model of Shenzhen: Leaders say that this once-sleepy city of 11 million can deliver the sort of spur to the...
Read MoreAnother out-of-the-box idea, from Kunming, Yunnan Province. Farmers who burn silt from a lake inspired a power station to study a commercial run, reports CRI Online: Yang Fulin (杨富林) works for Kunming City’s power plant...
Read MoreVictor Mallet, a Hong Kong based Asia editor of the Financial Times, published following OP-ED on the Financial Times: Every writer on China knows that even mild public criticism of the middle kingdom generates vitriolic and...
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