From BBC News: The Chinese authorities say they have launched a corruption investigation against the former head of the oil company Sinopec . Chen Tonghai resigned last June, officially for personal reasons. But state television...
Read MorePolitical jingles are not new in China. Even in Mao’s time, powerless people at the bottom of society used jingles to express themselves (often in the form of veiled criticism, sarcasm or anger, in reaction to the...
Read MoreThe Washington Post is the latest to report on the anti-Maglev train protests in Shanghai (the report includes video): The sudden “strolls” by thousands of office workers, company managers, young families and the...
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: As the wooden, carefully crafted proceedings of the recent 17th National Congress painfully demonstrated, the public face of Chinese politics is all about, well, “face.” But...
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, Howard French writes about Justin Lin Yifu, the new chief economist for the World Bank: A quick look at his résumé suggests that Justin Lin Yifu is just the kind of person one would expect to...
Read MorePeople trading in a market, via fengniao.com .
Read MoreFrom The Economist: FAR earlier than many, Rupert Murdoch sensed that China might be a unique financial prize. Even on his first visit in the mid-1980s, with his then wife, Anna, and their school-age children, the Australian...
Read MoreFrom The China Beat blog: Last year the International Olympic Committee (IOC) invited me to write an essay on the Beijing Olympics, and “The Beijing Effect” was published in the July-September 2006 issue of The...
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: It is a media tradition to look back at what has happened in the past year and how things will go in the year ahead. For Western media in general, a popular topic in the recent year-ender and prediction...
Read MoreFrom PC Magazine: A politically savvy jingle in China goes: Visit Beijing, and you discover you’re nobody. Visit Shanghai, and you learn you’re poor. Visit Taiwan, and you relive the Cultural Revolution. Translated,...
Read MoreFrom The Japan Times: The electoral defeat of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan was expected, but the magnitude of the loss took everyone by surprise, including the DPP itself and the opposition party, the...
Read MoreFrom The Independent: The Chinese economy grew by a sizzling 11.4 per cent last year, the fastest rate for 13 years, but prices are rising too, and there are fears that dissatisfaction about the high cost of staple foods such as...
Read MoreFrom the Independent: The Chinese economy grew by a sizzling 11.4 per cent last year, the fastest rate for 13 years, but prices are rising too, and there are fears that dissatisfaction about the high cost of staple foods such as...
Read MoreFrom The New American Media: Editor’s Note: Christianity in China is showing signs of emerging from the underground. The 5,000-attendee Gospel of China conference held last month in Hong Kong is a perfect example of this...
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