From The Sunday Times: The shifting sands of China’s deserts – already blamed for dust clouds adding to global pollution – now threaten to bury the world’s outstanding collection of ancient Buddhist art in caves along the fabled Silk Road. The frescoes and statues in the renowned Dunhuang caves are being damaged by grit blown […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Seattlepi.com: Say it loud. She’s Chinese and she’s proud. A 67-year-old Hong Kong politician responded to accusations of being unpatriotic by lip-synching to Cantopop star Scott Hui’s “Proud to be Chinese” in a rap music video on Youtube. Anson Chan, a prominent pro-Democracy reformer, was criticized for suggesting that she and other […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via People.com.cn: Chinese police have closed an allegedly illegal newspaper and arrested two of its staff after the paper reported an alleged miscarriage of justice. The Social News was not licensed for distribution...
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: On August 20, a large-scale campaign involving tens of thousands of officials was launched in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. These officials, used to working in urban government agencies, were asked to move their desks to the backward rural areas for next two years. Besides their desks, they are expected to bring the villages […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: Sun Liping is a professor of sociology at Qinghua University, and we recently read a short article he wrote about why Chinese society is going to remain stable. There have been several writers who have written responses to Professor Sun’s article, but before we get to those we’ll try to translate the gist […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Chinese author Jiang Rong won the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize for “Wolf Totem(ÁãºÂõæËÖæ ),” beating four other short-listed authors. The $10,000 award, sponsored by hedge-fund company Man Group Plc, is the first regional prize for a work that hasn’t been published in English. The result was announced last night at a dinner […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ visit to China this week, his first since assuming office in January, has achieved some tangible results. However, for US-China military ties to develop, Washington and Beijing will have to engage in further dialogue, dispel misperceptions and develop strategies for mutual understanding and common interests. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has sentenced to death or life imprisonment six Uighur activists in its far north west convicted of “separatist activities”, state media said on Sunday. The six, described as members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, received the verdicts on Nov. 8 at a local court in Kashgar in the northwest Xinjiang region, […]
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Read MoreThe debate over the discovery of South China Tiger is heating up. Chinese netizens have even participated and made fun of it by rewriting a children’s song, “One Two Three Four Five, Climb the Hill and Kill the...
Read MoreA Beijing-based journalist and blogger, Simon Elegant, updated his observations on Beijing architecture. Via Time Magazine’s China blog: (Image of CCTV tower) I just wanted to point out that across the street from the CCTV tower is the new phase of the World Trade Center or Guomao, pretty much the first really big prestige project […]
Read MoreSimilar to the Fortune list of Chinese entrepreneurs, 2007 fortune list of Chinese authors was just released. According to the list, young Chinese around age 20 are the main readers of the book market as the winner Guo Jingming was born in 1983. Many of his books are about teenagers’ coming-of-age and romantic experiences. His […]
Read MoreFrom Daily Yomiuri Online: Songs about stock investment by an amateur songwriter have become big hits on the Internet in China, which is being swept by an unprecedented boom in stock investment. Songs by Gong Kaijie (ÈæöÂáØÊù∞), a Shanghai driver, represent the voices of tens of millions of stock investors in his country. It’s not […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Rising political star Xi Jinping has been named by China’s ruling Communist Party to manage Hong Kong and Macau affairs, state press said Saturday. Xi was named to the party’s powerful nine-member Politburo Standing Committee at a key five-yearly meeting last month and is seen as the main candidate to take over for […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: China’s central bank ordered commercial banks Saturday to keep more money on hand, raising a key reserve requirement yet again to try to rein in the rapid lending that is fueling torrid economic growth. The People’s Bank of China said the reserve requirement will be raised half a percentage […]
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