A new documentary called Up the Yangtze follows the lives of both tourists traveling along the Yangtze and the workers who serve them. It is being shown at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. From an interview with the director Yung Chang: The idea was born in 2002, when I went on one of the so-called […]
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Read MoreHere is the special report of the Oxford Founation for Law, Justice and Society China Programme: Abstract: This special report examines the thesis that China’s transition is stalled. Minxin Pei, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and one of the main proponents of this provocative thesis, opens the discussion by summarizing his arguments in […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Shanghai’s ex-Formula One chief, who was jailed for corruption last week, intends to appeal against his sentence, his lawyer has said. Yu Zhifei, credited with bringing Formula One to China, was given four years in jail for embezzling funds from a football club he ran in the 1990s. His lawyer Zhang Tiefeng […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Minority shareholders in China Eastern Airlines rejected the proposed sale of 24 per cent of the carrier to Singapore Airlines and its parent Temasek on Tuesday, following an unprecedented campaign by domestic rival Air China to scupper the deal. The rejection leaves China National Aviation Corp , Air China’s parent, free […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua: The 2008 blue book the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released last Thursday has a chilling message for Chinese men – some of them will have to wait quite a long time to find a spouse in the years ahead. The book on marriage trends of the Chinese found a […]
Read MoreA consumer survey shows almost two-thirds of Chinese are worried about food safety, while a fifth have no confidence in drinking water safety, Reuters reported: China defended its fish farming industry on Tuesday and said it was making progress in curbing use of illegal additives, from pesticides to banned steroids, as the country’s food safety […]
Read MoreA general manager of Water Resources Construction Co in Hubei was beaten to death by manager officers after he was seen videotaping the fight among officers and locals, from Shanghai Daily: The clash broke out when the uniformed officers arrived at a landfill after receiving reports that some villagers tried to stop garbage trucks from […]
Read More“We are ready” is the official slogan for the countdown to the 2008 Olympics. On the first week of 2008, Beijing-based artist Ai Weiwei wrote a post on his blog on Sina.com. An artist, curator, and architectural...
Read MoreA roadside dental clinic in Sichuan, by hatter10_6
Read MoreChina Newsweek magazine thinks land reform should be the highest priority for the Chinese government in the next few years. Translated by CDT from China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊): The most serious economic, social and even political issues nowadays are all, directly or indirectly, connected with the land system. China’s current land system is getting closer and […]
Read MoreSong Zuying, a famous ethnic Miao Chinese singer, held a solo concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 12, 2006 in the United States. She received a nomination for the best Classical Crossover Album category at the Grammy Awards. Below are two video clips of the concert from Youtube: […]
Read MoreThe writer of the article appeals for renaming Peking Opera its Chinese Pinyin form of “Jingju,” from People’s Daily: As China is quickening its tempo going global, cross-cultural communication has become more important than ever before. In some cases, however, it seems difficult to find an equivalent in any other culture to convey the true […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph: A Chinese woman who was forced to have an abortion despite being nine months pregnant is suing the authorities for their actions. Jin Yani‘s waters had already broken when China’s abortion police came for her. They took her to a nearby abortion centre, injected her unborn baby girl and removed the body two […]
Read MoreOne of the biggest uproars on the Internet is the story of Zhang Zhiguo’s reaction to a “libellous story.” More from Reuters, via the International Herald Tribune: Police in northeast China have travelled nearly 1,000 km (600 miles) to subpoena a Beijing reporter over a story they say libelled a local Communist Party chief, a […]
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