This time Laura Ling talks about China’s great firewall and reports that “an information battle is taking place between China’s 120 million Internet users and the Chinese government’s web censors.” Ling also interviewed Xiao Qiang, an adjunct professor and Director of The China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The Chinese government has suspended all exports of a toy found to have been coated with a toxic chemical, China’s official Xinhua news agency says. The move comes after the authorities in the United States, Australia and a number of other countries removed the Bindeez and Aqua Dots toys from sale. The […]
Read MoreFrom China Rising: One of China’s leading economists, Professor Lin Yifu , recently said of China’s position in the world: 4th in GDP, 3rd in Trade, 2nd in Foreign Direct Investment and 1st in Foreign Exchange Holdings . Perhaps the fact that China is second and first in areas that has the word “foreign” in […]
Read MoreThe AP writes about last night’s basketball face-off between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Houston Rockets and the teams’ two Chinese stars: Among the estimated 100- to 200-million TV viewers in China were more than 400 who packed a Beijing bar at breakfast time Saturday to watch a live televised broadcast of Rocket’s star Yao […]
Read MoreVanity Fair magazine posted a slideshow of contemporary Chinese art. The accompanying text article is not available online but is in the December issue: With an explosion of museums, galleries, and prices, China has become the hottest stop on the international art circuit, as the emerging cultural capitals of Beijing and Shanghai witness a rush […]
Read MorePlans are underway to solve the national travel crush that now occurs for the holiday. From the International Herald Tribune: A Chinese government panel announced plans on Friday to revamp the holiday schedule to re-emphasize traditional festivals at the expense of the Marxist May Day celebration. The new schedule aims to address the severe overloading […]
Read MoreA migrant worker back home with his son in Haining, Zhejiang province , via fengniao.com .
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, Howard French calls for an eradication of “Laowai” catcalls as part of the campaign to encourage a “civilized” populace in time for the Olympics: This is China’s coming out party, and, as countless others will note in due course, the equivalent of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, when Japan announced […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via CCTV International: Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan has urged the governments of Chongqing Municipality and Hubei Province to double efforts in treating geological disasters and protecting the ecology in the Three Gorges Reservoir area. He was speaking during a field survey on the construction, operation and management of the world’s largest water […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Xiang Xiufa has become almost a household name in Chongqing after filing a lawsuit against the municipality’s forestry bureau for the death of 3,200 rare plants. The 44-year-old businessman had transplanted them from their original habitat in the Three Gorges Dam area before it was submerged. He says the bureau’s dereliction of […]
Read MoreFrom International Water Power and Dam Construction: Construction work has taken another step forward for the 12.6GW Xiluodu hydropower scheme on the Jianshajiang river, in China, after the previous set back due to the country’s environmental agency acting on a number of schemes. Official media in China report that work on damming the Jianshajiang has […]
Read MoreThis is the text of the 16th Annual Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture at the John K. Fairbank Center of Harvard University on October 24, 2007. From Stimson: When I told my friend and colleague, Professor Steven Goldstein, Director of the Fairbank Center’s Taiwan Studies Workshop, that I had chosen the topic The U.S. “One China” […]
Read MoreThe Huanan Tiger dispute continues, as the Shaanxi Forestry Bureau is pushing for a genetic verification of the tiger. This is in response to the academic and legal battles over the credibility of the photos and the existence of the once extinct animals in the region, via Xin Yusi BBS: At a 12 October press […]
Read MoreLaura Ling, a Current Correspondent, takes a glance at China’s massive makeover as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games in 2008. She talks about transportation, economic phenomenon, pollution, common people’s living condition and other social issues. [Original Video Here]
Read MoreAccording to a survey, the fatality rate for China’s coal mine accidents is 100 times that of the U.S. and 30 times that of South Africa. From 2001 to 2005, there were 188 coal mine accidents with more than ten deaths each...
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