Winter has unquestionably arrived in northern China. According to weather data from Xinhua, temperatures in some northern areas have fallen by as much as 14 degrees centigrade in recent weeks. Bitter though it may be, the icy temperatures have at least one advantage: The arrival of rime or wusong (ÈõæÂáá ) on the banks of […]
Read MoreBefore I jump into today’s topic – caste and democracy – let me just note two newspaper stories that speak to my last China/India comparison. They both deal with the changing role of women in Indian society, which is, to my mind, a critical social dynamic in the interplay of tradition and modernity in India: […]
Read MoreCritiques of Chinese tourists’ boorish and ignorant behavior in foreign countries are all-too-familiar these days. Now an Internet debate over Wall Street’s Charging Bull sculpture gives Chinese netizens a chance to fight back. From Global Voices: On 15th,Nov, Wang Fang (ÁéãËä≥) , an anchorwoman of Beijing TV, wrote on her blog about an image she […]
Read MoreEuropean Trade Commissioner Peter Madelson is prepared to label China’s limitations on imports of foreign films (20 per year) as being in violation of WTO rules. From The Times: Peter Mandelson, the European Trade Commissioner, will tell the Chinese authorities this week that the obstacles faced by European companies operating in China are “unacceptable” and […]
Read MoreXinhua polisher Chris O’Brien writes on his blog Beijing Newspeak about the military’s unilateral and unexplained commandeering of domestic airspace: On Tuesday, a journalist friend of mine tried to fly from southern China to Shanghai. The whole process took 11 hours. My friend was told the People’s Liberation Army, those lovers of late notice, had […]
Read MoreFrom AP via CNN.com: China has ordered increased monitoring to ensure steady fuel supplies, especially of diesel, that keeps the nation’s exports moving to global markets. The Commerce Ministry ‘s late order was made late Saturday amid a squeeze on supplies from Chinese refiners, who must pay more for imports but are restricted from raising […]
Read MoreThe latest Biganzi post from Jonathan Ansfield: “There’s no denomination and no real issuer, but it’s money.” Vouchers from the supermarket chain Trust-Mart (•ΩÂèà§ö) have become a favored currency of petty corruption in Fujian, says a local entrepreneur who carries a stack on him. In the course of a recent interview about unrelated topics, by […]
Read MoreNot just the economy, music like Punk, hip-hop and rock bloom in China, too. From The New York Times: AS she would anywhere in the world, Karen O of the arty New York rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs strode onto a festival stage here last month in costume, looking like a wild, futuristic harlequin […]
Read MoreA factory for Changhong electronics in Mianyang, by The Gonger
Read MoreRebels in Darfur have demanded that peacekeepers from China pull out of the Sudanese region just hours after the arrival of 135 Chinese engineers. From BBC: The army engineers arrived on Saturday to prepare for a joint UN and African Union peacekeeping force of 26,000. The Jem says it wants China to withdraw its support […]
Read MoreGlobal Voices translates reactions from netizens to news about the rapidly increasing food prices: “Recently, can you afford meat?” Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao asked when he visited a group of poor people living in an old residential area of Beijing. On the very next day, the National Bureau of Statistics reported that China’s October inflation […]
Read MoreFrom CNN: Millions of young Chinese are embracing the Internet as a discreet space for their thoughts and emotions, according to a survey of Chinese and American youth released today by IAC, which operates businesses in sectors being transformed by the Internet, and JWT, the fourth largest advertising agency network in the world. The findings […]
Read MoreThe Huanan tiger drama is getting more complicated, as Zhou Zhenglong, the farmer who provided the photos, says he intends to go back to the forests and take more tiger photos to defend himself. From AHN: Chinese farmer Zhou Zhenglong, 52, has gone back into the wilderness to take more photos of the tiger, in […]
Read MoreIn the latest in the New York Times’ series Choking on Growth, Howard French writes about the ways that local officials are undercutting national goals to reduce energy consumption: Beijing has so fixated on the 20 percent goal that it has become the centerpiece of its overall strategy to reduce pollution in addition to consumption, […]
Read MoreFrom Hong Kong’s Ming Pao: According to sources in China, in recent days the East and South China Sea fleets of the People’s Liberation Army [PLA] have carried out a large-scale “campaign-level [zhanyi ji] naval exercise”; the two big fleets staged a joint combat exercise in the Pacific east of Taiwan; the recent aviation controls […]
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