China overtook France in the contemporary art market by the end of 2006 according to a study led by economist Dr. Clare McAndrew and research company Art Economics. Twenty percent of the contemporary art sales came from China,...
Read MoreChina may face overwhelming food safety problems, after the appearance of the pet food and poisoned dumplings issues. From Los Angeles Times: Trader Joe’s is taking some of its Chinese food off the menu. The Monrovia-based...
Read MoreDinosaur fossils are eternally been an issue in Chongqing . But now it seems that China is opening to international cooperation in the search for dinosaur fossils. From AP: As pterodactyls go it was small, toothless and had...
Read MoreA follow up to CDT’s previous post on Yu Huafeng, from Time’s The China Blog: Days after a Hong Kong reporter was released from a Chinese jail, another Chinese journalist has been freed. Yu Huafeng, an editor at the...
Read MoreChina stock markets will reopen on Wednesday after the one-week Spring Festival holiday. Contrary to hopes that the government will shore up markets ahead of the Olympics Games, analysts are predicting that China may see a...
Read MoreZhou Yunpeng 周云蓬, 38, is a poet and folk singer based in Beijing. He went blind when he was nine. His last image of the colored world was the elephant in a zoo playing harmonica. This became an inspiration for him to write songs...
Read MoreIn two separate cases, the U.S. Department of Justice recently charged four people with spying on behalf of China. One of the four, accused of passing on Boeing secrets to the PRC, is the focus of this article from Chicago...
Read MoreIn a January 18 article in U.S. News and World Report on rising anti-Americanism in Russia, reporter Alastair Gee sites a poll by the state-owned Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) suggesting that “Russians...
Read MoreFrom Radio Netherlands Wordwide: “It’s the hundreds of thousands of Chinese bloggers who are the most reliable eyes and ears in China,” says Xiao Qiang , professor of journalism at the University of California...
Read MoreTranslated by Nanyan Guo. From Japan Focus: Recently, the famous literature critic Ge Hongbing posted an article in his personal blog ‘China: How Should World War II Be Commemorated’. When the article was re-posted...
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: Surging growth in China’s tax revenues is masking the government’s difficulty in getting individuals to pay income taxes, a problem that could eventually hamper official promises to expand...
Read MoreFrom Internet Censorship Explorer: Search engines are increasingly censoring their results, often by geographic location, having a significant, negative impact on the right to freedom of expression. The most advanced cases of...
Read MoreChina’s Big Man To Be appears to have been given his first big task, according to the South China Morning Post. Since SCMP continues to hide it’s content behind a pay-wall (tsk tsk), we have to take the story...
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