From AP: A Chinese dissident lawyer was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday after publishing a book about a political scandal and helping villagers lead a campaign to unseat local officials accused of corruption, his attorney said. Guo Feixiong, convicted of alleged illegal business activity, was also fined US$5,300 in a district court in […]
Read MoreMore hot discussion comes out on Huanan Tiger/South China Tiger. CDT’s Xiao Qiang has some thoughts to share. From The Washington Post: PAPER TIGER?: The South China tiger is alive again in the wild — at least in the Chinese blogosphere… Whether or not the tiger is bogus, the furor shows that “the government agency’s […]
Read MoreRecently, a lot of Top 10 list boards have appeared in the Chinese media. One that has attracted a lot of attention is China’s Top 10 Universities for Single Male/Female Students list released by the so-called China Singles Association(CSA)/‰∏≠ÂõΩÂÖâÊ£çÂç艺ö. CSA said through telephone interviews and online surveys that they make their own lists. However, the […]
Read MoreYue Minjun talks about his paintings for the New York Times: Your first reaction upon meeting Yue Minjun might be, yes, it is indeed he! The face with the enigmatic, jaw-breaking grin, perhaps the most recognizable image in contemporary Chinese painting, is a self-portrait. “Yes, it’s me,” Mr. Yue said in a recent interview, and […]
Read More“Surging food prices are starting to panic consumers in China – and sounding alarm gongs among the country’s top leaders.” From The Australian: Three people were crushed to death in the southwestern city of Chongqing at the weekend as they rushed to buy discounted cooking oil. Yesterday, the National Bureau of Statistics announced food prices […]
Read More“The Chinese search engine’s Baike online encyclopedia blocks politically sensitive entries; some say it condones plagiarism and copyright abuse.” From The Business Week: Baidu (BIDU) is best known as the leading Internet search engine in China, where it’s far ahead of Silicon Valley’s Google (GOOG). But Baidu, based in Beijing, also provides a number of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The slopes of Chenjialing Village have shuddered and groaned lately, cracking and warping homes and fields, and making residents fear the banks of China’s swelling Three Gorges Dam may hold deadly perils. The vast hydro scheme is meant to subdue the Yangtze River, but as the water levels rise, parts of its shores […]
Read MoreYahoo! has reached a settlement in the case of writers Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning, who were imprisoned after Yahoo! handed over their personal information to Chinese authorities. From Wired: Terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed. But a source at Yahoo said the company has been “working with the families, and we’re working with them […]
Read MoreA new study by Canadian researchers says design flaws, and not Chinese manufacturing, are to blame for dangerous toy exports. From the Globe and Mail: “The consumer concern [about toy safety] is well founded,” said Paul Beamish, a University of Western Ontario business professor who co-wrote the study with two University of Manitoba professors. “But […]
Read MoreComments and cartoon from Yangcheng Evening News, translated by CDT: Cheng’an County’s “straw recline license” is strange enough to be be compared to young bloggers creating “online dating permits”, “virgin licenses”, etc. However, farmer Zhang is not some hot girl on the internet who can respond with laughter or tears. Zhang was scolded and beaten […]
Read MoreFrom Legal Daily, summarized and translated by CDT: For a long time, it has been a traditional approach for local farmers after harvesting corn to burn the remaining corn stalks. This not only causes serious air pollution, but also harms the ecological environment and the land. Thus, relevant ministries have issued a ban on burning […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Ever since the internet arrived in China in the mid-1990s, many have assumed that it poses an unanswerable threat to the sprawling system of political censorship that helps underpin the ruling Communist party’s power. Such confidence was memorably summed up in 2000 by Bill Clinton , then US president, who predicted […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Newspeak blog: Yesterday, the State Council appeared to abandon the approach of seeking credibility through the opinion of a sole expert. It released a signed article entitled “Has the Dalai Lama truly given up ‘Tibetan Independence’?”, distributed by Xinhua and planted on page ten of today’s China Daily. The author’s name was given […]
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