From Xinhua, via sina.com: China’s currency, the yuan, Friday hit a new high against the U.S. dollar for the second consecutive day, smashing the 7.4-yuan mark, according to the Chinese Foreign Exchange Trading System. The central parity rate of the yuan, also known as Renminbi (RMB), stood at 7.3992 yuan to one U.S. dollar on […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog, Roland Soong translated this article on the Southern Metropolis Daily, November 22, 2007: “100,000 yuan to cure cancer. As quickly as ten days but now later than twenty days. If you have faith, you will be saved.” A fifty-ish illiterate rural woman who has never been in school for a single day […]
Read MoreThe Chinese government has responded to the Dalai Lama’s statement that he could hand-pick his successor before his death in order to avoid China’s influence over the process: China has accused Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, of violating the religious rituals and historical conventions of Tibetan Buddhism by suggesting he might appoint a successor […]
Read MoreVia 24 Hours Online, summarized and translated by CDT: Back from the grassland, I have been thinking of one person – Mr Stone! View my previous posts of Mr Stone’s Life. I lived a few days in Mr Stone’s home. I personally had observed the hard torment in his life and death line. Because lack […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Democratic 2008 front-runner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday blamed China for a tide of millions of toy exports which she warned could be defective and endanger American children at Christmas. The former first lady also recalled how she had “stood up” to the Beijing government in 1995 at an international conference on women on […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: “If I rest, I rust.” It’s not quite clear how actress Helen Hayes’s piece of potted wisdom reached the ears of Cun Yanfang, a member of the indigenous Naxi people from one of southwest China’s more remote villages. “But that is quite true for me,” the diminutive, apple-cheeked Ms. Cun […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: Jiang Xingjun hates holidays here. Rather than providing respite or relaxation, China’s three national vacation weeks — one observed in winter, one in spring and one in fall — are often more like hell on wheels, with jam-packed planes, trains and automobiles gone berserk, he says. On cue, hundreds of millions […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The US Navy says Chinese approval for its vessels to enter Hong Kong for the Thanksgiving holiday has come too late. The navy said the ships had already left the area, after China initially refused their request to dock.
Read MoreChina has imported western holidays including Valentine’s Day and Christmas. Now, Thanksgiving! Some of my American friends were driven half crazy by the Chinese shops running Xmas music and decorations for an entire year. When turkeys enter China’s market what will happen? Will Chinese have difficulty finding homegrown chicken? From China Daily: On Thanksgiving Day […]
Read MoreVia Shanghaiist: This is not news the government wants to hear in the run-up to the Olympics, but here’s a statement that the Beijing-based Foreign Correspondents Club of China (FCCC) just sent out (h/t to the Peking Duck): Dear Members, Recently some foreign correspondents have been detained, harassed and physically roughed up — two incidents […]
Read MoreFrom China Rises: There’s been another landslide near the reservoir of the Three Gorges dam, the latest of many to jolt the mammoth project. State media says one person was killed and two are missing after earth tumbled down at the entrance of a railway tunnel near Badong. Like many foreign journalists, I wrote a […]
Read MoreOverseas political commentator Liang Jing wrote this essay recently, thanks to David Kelly for the translation: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s recent intervention in the stock market not only led to much resentment, but also deepened some people’s worries about a financial crisis breaking out. Ye Tan, a woman and talented critic of the Chinese economy, […]
Read MoreIn a magazine called The American, Rowan Callick, China correspondent for The Australian, explains the “China Model,” which combines economic and social liberalization with political repression: The system’s advantage over the standard authoritarian or totalitarian approach is obvious: it produces economic growth, which keeps people happy. Under communism and its variations on the right and […]
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