Chinese officials have threatened to sue after a German museum has acknowledged that terracotta soldiers in an exhibition are fakes. From Spiegel Online: What does it mean to be “authentic”? How is that different from “original”? And can a fake also be authentic? Such semantic hair-splitting is at the heart of a museum scandal about […]
Read MoreA commentary from People Online via sina.com. Translated by CDT: Liquor consumption is an open secret at a lot of Chinese luncheons and dinners, but the late Kaiping (开平) secretary Zhao Ruizhang (赵瑞彰) took it to the extreme level of getting as wasted as he could. Since 2003, when he took over the city in […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China and the US have ended two days of trade negotiations with very little apparent progress on their key issues of dispute. China agreed to increase safety standards on exports to the US, prompting Chinese Vice...
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: One of China’s leading environmental activists has launched a “name and shame” website that maps the locations of more than 4,000 air polluters in the country, including 40 multinational companies. The move highlights the push by activists to put pressure on corporate polluters in China, which is expected to become the […]
Read MoreBefore the 70th Anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre , a group of university students born in Nanjing produced a documentary to memorialize this part of history. Their shooting angles are unsophisticated, but they sincerely express their love for Nanjing city. The so-called “Me generation” believes they have a responsiblity toward Nanjing and China’s bright future. […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China has denied suspending movie imports from the United States, after US officials “forcefully” raised the issue and demanded answers during tense meetings this week. US entertainment industry journal Variety last week reported that China had begun a three-month suspension of US movies, amid speculation that the Chinese were looking to punish the […]
Read MoreFrom China Brief (Volume 7, Issue 23): With Taiwan’s 2008 Legislative Yuan (LY) election in January and the presidential elections following in March, the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) has unveiled a security policy platform that reveals a notable degree of convergence with the policy preferences of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The defense policy white […]
Read MoreFrom China’s leading technology writer keso’s Playin’ with IT blog, translated by CDT: What are the top ten “What is” questions searched by Chinese Internet users – according to Baidu (the most popular Chinese search engine)? What is a mutual fund? What are warrants? What are stock-index futures? What are stocks? What is e-commerce? What […]
Read MoreSteven Spielberg has written to Hu Jintao to appeal for him to help end the genocide in Darfur. From the AFP: In a November 15 letter to Hu released Thursday, Spielberg, who is serving as an artistic advisor for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, said the situation in Darfur had deteriorated since he last wrote him […]
Read MoreDr Subroto Roy, an Indian economist, wrote the following opinion piece about China for The Statesman back in October: The most important factors explaining China’s progress since the deaths of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai have been the spread and quick absorption of modern Western technology under conditions of relative peace and tranquillity. The “capitalist […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from People Online via sina.com: With skyrocketing housing and pork prices, inflation, not surprisingly, has topped the list of concerns in a recent survey of officials who are in Beijing attending a Party School study session. The survey, started in 1998, sent out 170 questionnaires and received 154 effective returns, covering a […]
Read MoreThe number of sad stories, like the water level, has kept rising, or surfacing to be exact. From AFP: Life was never easy for peasant farmer Fu Xiuqiong, but since China’s Three Gorges Reservoir began to fill in 2003, she has barely kept her head above water. In a story common for this small town […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: On a frontier where Vietnamese and Chinese soldiers exchanged bullets in a short but bloody war three decades ago, construction workers from the two countries will soon join forces to build a highway that promises to bring new wealth to their once heavily guarded border regions. Plans for a four-lane highway […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Tibetan exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called on Italy Thursday to support Tibet in its bid for autonomy, in a speech to Italian parliament members. “We appeal to you, help us,” the Dalai Lama told lawmakers, urging both concrete help as well as moral support. Recent meetings between the Dalai Lama and […]
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