The Telegraph comments on Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s visit to China: Chinese goods have controlled American inflation while Chinese savings have financed American consumption. China’s demand for raw materials is not only underpinning world commodity prices: as the Chinese do not care whom they buy from and are happy to pay their cheques straight to […]
Read MoreLate December 2007, China’s leading human rights activist Hu Jia was arrested at his apartment, located in a residential area called “Freedom City”, in Beijing. The Boston Globe reported: “Before arriving, they cut his phone lines and Internet connection so that he would be unable to alert his friends in China and abroad.” British TV […]
Read MoreAnother review of Jia Zhangke’s Still Life, which just opened in New York, from the New York Times: A meticulous record of a vanishing world — Mr. Jia’s cinematographer, Yu Lik-wai, surveys the wreckage with slow panning shots that evoke the horizontal expanse of Chinese scroll paintings — “Still Life” is an act of commemoration […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: Elements, Hong Kong’s latest colossal shopping mall and luxury goods temple, is a living illustration of the city’s bid to lure a new generation of brand-mad spenders from the Chinese mainland. The new development has a massive 1,115m2 Gucci store, not to mention Prada, Ferragamo and Versace boutiques. It has a direct […]
Read MoreThis local official, arrested last year, was bold enough to photoshop himself into a photo with a state leader. But his path into prison is a long, typical trajectory for a lot of down-on-their-luck cadres. Translated by CDT from China Youth Daily: Born into a poor village in Linfen, Shanxi Province, Wang Yuexi starved and […]
Read MoreA commentary translated by CDT from China Youth Daily: Shanghai plans to build a new town out of nowhere, well, actually in the sea. This project, situated at the north part of Hangzhou Bay, is expected to house 50,000-80,000 people on 65,000 square kilometers of reclaimed land. In 2006, Shanghai finished a “seashore new town” […]
Read MoreFrom China Brief (Volume 8, Issue 2): The opening line was short but dramatic: “With Rule of Law Day fast approaching, we renew our call: abolish the reeducation through labor system.” So wrote a group of nearly seventy prominent scholars, lawyers, activists and public intellectuals in a constitutional review proposal issued in November 2007. Addressed […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Britain and China are entering a new era of environmental cooperation and will lead the world in creating a sustainable future, Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday as he ended a two-day visit. Brown switched focus from Friday’s emphasis on boosting trade ties with the world’s fastest-growing economy by inspecting cutting-edge projects […]
Read MoreChina University of Politics and Law Professor Xiao Han （萧瀚）resigned his teaching post after lecturing his students on the “truth” of the military crackdown on democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989....
Read MoreFrom Reuters: It’s in poor places like Puyang that the ruling Communist party’s battle to narrow China’s yawning wealth gap will be won or lost. Many residents of this county town about six hours’ drive south of Beijing say their lives have improved thanks to tax cuts and increased spending on education, medical insurance and […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: The Beijing News recently published a commentary calling for closer attention to disparities of per capita income between different areas. The commentary came in a response to the recent release of statistics which show a city’s GDP being 10 times that of a western Chinese province. Gaps between regions and economic scales are […]
Read MoreMore attention on the uncertain prospects of China’s booming housing market. From China Daily: To buy or not to buy, that is the question haunting Yang Qi. The 30-year-old white-collar worker has had plans to buy a house in Beijing for some years now. But just when she was about to decide on an apartment […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Tired of fighting for the wages owed to him, Jia Changzhen has said he is calling it quits and leaving the city to seek his fortune in another part of the country. Jia, who is in his late 20s and has worked in Shenzhen for close to four years, said the power […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Despite repeated crackdowns on online piracy, it is still a challenge to protect intellectual property rights, a top official said Thursday. “Internet copyright infringement is still very prevalent in the country,” Yan Xiaohong, vice-minister of the National Copyright Administration (NCA), told a press conference held by the State Council Information Office. Yan […]
Read MoreMary-Anne Toy interviewed well-known artist Ai Weiwei, who was also a co-designer of the Olympic stadium – the bird-nest. Ai has left the project and says that “it is part of a pretend smile of bad taste.” In early January 2008, Ai Weiwei wrote a post on his blog on Sina.com saying that China today […]
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