The BBC looks at the hardships of a farming family in Ningxia: The dry crumbly loess is shaped by occasional rains into fantastic gorges and spectacular cliffs. And the ingenious Chinese, always short of farmland, have spent generations slicing terraces out of the fragile mountains by hand, making tier above tier of land cultivable to […]
Read MoreIf you don’t have a multimillion bank account but still want to afford a villa near some major Chinese city, you still have a shot in Chongqing. Read about a real estate rush into nearby rural neighborhoods, translated by CDT from the Beijing News: Wei Erxu (韦尔旭), a tangerine and fish farmer at Jiulongpo District […]
Read MoreLast week, Toronto Star reporter Bill Schiller contributed to a series on commuting around the world by taking a trip to work in Beijing with a young suburbanite doctor, Li Ya’ou: Every day, the 27-year-old neuroradiologist uses a mix of private, public and pedal power to transport him from his suburban home, nearly 40 kilometres […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: North Korea will host a leg of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay, state media has reported. The flame, which is due to pass through 22 cities in the four months before the Games, is expected to reach North Korean capital Pyongyang on 28 April. Chinese and North Korean officials made […]
Read MoreThe following editorial appeared in India’s The Statesman: Today the Hong Kong Model of “One Country Two Systems” can be generalised to “One Commonwealth/ Confederation of China, Six Systems”, whose constituents would be Mainland China, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), Chinese Hong Kong, Tibet, Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia. A difference between a commonwealth and a confederation is […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Elite Reference (青年参考): In a Taiwan Defense Department report to its Legislative Yuan on Taiwanese armed forces’ combat morale level on December 12, more than half of the island’s military officials and soldiers say a war across the straits is likely, a sharp increase over the 17% who thought so before […]
Read MoreQuite an “achievement” for Beijing, home to three of Time magazine’s 10 architectural mavels for 2007. From time.com: #6 | Olympic Stadium, Beijing Athletes at the Summer Games will compete in a nestlike venue by Herzog & de Meuron. #7 | CCTV Headquarters, Beijing A tetrahedronal structure by Rem Koolhaas will be the most radically […]
Read MoreIn the New York Times Magazine, Yale University History professor Annping Chin writes about contemporary interpretations of the classics in China: Scores of men and women in China’s business world today are studying their country’s classical texts, not just “The Art of War,” but also early works from the Confucian and the Daoist canon. On […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Forty multinationals are among some 4,000 firms on an air pollution blacklist released Thursday. Top companies such as Michelin China, Sina-Mars Group APP in China, the joint ventures of Toyota and Ford, and subsidiaries of Sinopec figure on the list of the China Air Pollution Map, compiled by the Beijing-based non-governmental […]
Read MoreOverseas Chinese political analyst Liang Jing wrote a new commentary piece on politics in 2007, translated by David Kelly of East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore: As 2007 draws to a close, which political developments will have major future impact? In my view, the dramatic decline of the influence of Hu and Wen topped […]
Read MoreA migrant worker cleaned passerby’s shoes to make a living. When she was busy working, she always let her son take care of the younger daughter. One day, two kids were having lunch together in the corner of a street. From Fengniao.com :
Read MoreThe “South China Tiger” [华南虎］saga continues. Now known as “Tigergate” among Chinese netizens, this event will no doubt be one of the top media/internet stories of 2007. On December 2nd, NetEase (one of...
Read MoreNewsweek writes about social networking with Chinese characteristics: China’s Internet audience has, for the most part, given sites like Facebook and MySpace the cold shoulder. Even local Chinese sites like Xiaonei or 51.com have failed to establish big national followings. What may seem on the surface to be a stubborn backwardness on the part of […]
Read MorePakistan’s The News reports from Kazakhstan: In the past few years, Chinese fruit, vegetables, TV sets, T-shirts and tires have flooded markets along the old Silk Road in former Soviet Central Asia. Each day, all along the Chinese border, hundreds of tractor-trailers rattle west. These goods are the most visible sign of Beijing’s growing power […]
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