Translated by CDT from Global Times Online (环球时报), which doesn’t name one of the key sources: No wonder that Wall Street has smelled the enormous opportunity in serving the ever-growing Chinese rich. Now there’s one new growing service at major investment banks: helping Chinese coal bosses to manage their big bank accounts. Mr. G, an […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Redorbit.com: Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said here Tuesday before his upcoming visit to China that environmental protection and energy are important issues of cooperation between the two countries. During an interview with Xinhua and other Chinese media at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo, Fukuda said environmental protection and energy are […]
Read MoreIn Newsweek, Beijing bureau chief Melinda Liu has a long essay about the changes in modern China as viewed through the lens of her family and her work as a reporter. It covers everything from the separation of a brother due to Communism’s rise to the return of first- and second-generation Chinese-Americans who want to […]
Read MoreThe cover story of Mother Jones surveys the major environmental problems plaguing China. Anyone who has followed this issue won’t find much new (see CDT’s work on China’s Environmental Crisis). But the story has an engaging narrative thread, in which writer Jacques Leslie searches for signs of all of the above with a guide named […]
Read MoreA motorcycle young man talking with a girl in the street, via fengniao.com .
Read MoreFrom VOA News: For boat manufacturers, the yachting market of the future is China, where luxury sailing yachts and motorboats are becoming the ultimate accessory of the super-rich. New marinas are being developed, and the government is promoting sailing ahead of next year’s Olympics. Claudia Blume reports from VOA’s Asia News Center in Hong Kong. […]
Read MoreThe documentary is about Shanghai World Financial Center(上海环球金融中心), a supertall skyscraper under construction in Shanghai. The video introduction says that “Ironically, the tallest skyscraper in the world is named...
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: In a borrowed classroom of the provincial Communist Party School, a newly busy philosophy professor addressed 15 well-groomed adult students. His message: Try to have a soul. …It was opening day of Jiaye Changqing, or “Family Enterprise Lasts Forever,” a week-long course for the sons and daughters of rich entrepreneurs — […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has detained at least three farmers on subversion charges for making bold calls for private land ownership in the countryside, an attempt to curb land seizures by corrupt officials, their families said on Monday. Police in Huayin in the northwestern province of Shaanxi made the “criminal detentions” earlier this month, suspecting the […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China has made good progress in developing a human vaccine against the deadly bird flu virus, with a second phase of tests showing it to be safe and effective, state press reported Monday. About 400 people aged between 18 and 60 who were given the vaccine between September and November this year had […]
Read MoreA new Chinese commercial film, directed by popular director Feng Xiaogang, just came out in Beijing. From Xinhua: The film is based on a true story: a company of soldiers were ordered to fight until they heard the call to assembly. But the call never came and everybody died, except one. Years later, the lone […]
Read MoreA little girl in Santa outfit, by Mike Chen and via Shanghaiist.
Read MoreUkachi, an independent filmmaker, interviewed Chinese artists and illustrated how they feel about contemporary art in China: [Click to see]
Read MoreFrom AP via CNN.com: A Beijing city regulation clamping down on people who send text messages that “spread rumors” or “endanger public security” is a threat to freedom of expression, a watchdog group said Monday. China Human Rights Defenders, an international network of activists and rights monitoring groups, said the recent regulation on text messages […]
Read MoreFrom Seattletimes.com: It was the week before Christmas, and the crush of shoppers elbowing their way past stalls at the Tian Yi market would have been familiar to holiday gift buyers anywhere. So would the brightly colored baubles, red and gold bows, and strings of flashing lights from which the crowds were choosing: After all, […]
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