From Time Magazine: Bite-sized potstickers are popular in Japan, but rarely are they food for political debate. Since December, frozen gyoza (meat dumplings) produced by Chinese manufacturer Tianyang Food Processing Ltd. have...
Read MoreChina muscles in on a big deal of in aluminium, uranium and coking coal, from the Economist: EVERYTHING to do with mining is impressively vast. It is an industry that makes huge holes in the ground and relies on trucks with...
Read MoreTime.com is running an article summarizing the Chinese “dumpling scandal” over the past week. What’s very interesting, however, is a quote buried near the end of the piece: China’s reaction has also been...
Read MoreThe history of the lion dance in China can be traced back nearly a thousand years. The traditional meaning of it is to scare away the devil “Nian” and welcome peace and fortune in the coming year. Unfortunately,...
Read MoreWith most of the country on vacation, or stuck in the snow, the Western media takes a look at what is likely to come for China in the brand-new Year of the Rat. From The Guardian: The spring festival is traditionally the time...
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: For a procession of senior U.S. military commanders who have visited China in recent years, the complaint has become almost routine. As part of a sustained military buildup, they say, China...
Read MoreAn eye-opening commentary from the Beijing News (新京报), translated by CDT: Although it has a declining viewership, China’s New Year Gala on CCTV is probably still the most watched show ever in the country (it’s like...
Read MoreThe new episode of Danwei TV looks into how people celebrate Chinese New Year in Beijing and Hong Kong, via Youtube: As Beijing gears up for Chinese New Year, Sufei finds out how locals celebrate, and if it’s any different...
Read More“Fei Tian(飞天),” performed by seven girls from Guangzhou, became the most popular dance during Chinese CCTV New Year’s Gala. The inspiration for the dance came from Dunhuang’s mural art. Fei Tian is...
Read MoreFor the first day of the Year of the Rat, people in China celebrated the Spring Festival Eve with firecrackers and shopping in rural markets. In the southern part of China, they welcomed the Year of the Rat with blizzards, which...
Read MoreThe latest on the Chinese government’s efforts to disassociate the Olympics from politics, from the International Herald Tribune: For months, as the Beijing Olympics draw nearer, China has been refining its arguments in...
Read MoreEdward Lanfranco reports on Washington Times: China now has or will soon have the world’s largest Internet population, having drawn roughly equal with the 215 million American users after a 53 percent increase last year,...
Read MoreBad weather in China and other countries and increasing demand for coal to generate power are likely to push coal prices, already outrunning crude oil and natural gas, to a new high, Moming Zhou at MarketWatch reports. From...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, translated by CDT: “Pig” year is gone and the “Rat” year comes. Have you ever thought that there are Chinese named after pigs and rats? It is true. According to the Ministry of Public...
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