Richard Spencer reflects on arguments that critics of China’s human rights record are just reacting to the country’s economic might: The rise of Chinese industry as manufacturing shuts down in the west, the bullishness of Asia, including its financial markets, while meltdown threatens everywhere else, the general rise of China while American and British indebtedness […]
Read MoreKaiser Kuo and Rebecca MacKinnon comment on the news that Facebook plans to launch a Chinese site later this year. From Ogilvy China Digital Watch: A report on China-cbn.com (the website of Diyi Caijing Ribao, in Chinese) cites an “industry insider” who says that Facebook plans to release additional language interfaces and intends to enter […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Breast cancer has risen sharply in China’s capital and its top financial centre during the last decade due to unhealthy diets, a poor environment and increased stress at work, state media reported on Tuesday. In Beijing, the incidence of breast cancer has increased 23 percent in 10 years, with about 45 women out […]
Read MoreFrom Channelnewsasia.com: Massive demand caused the Beijing Olympic ticketing system to collapse on Tuesday as a second phase of sales for people living in China got under way, officials said. More than 200,000 Internet ticket applications for next year’s Games were submitted each second at some points on Tuesday, jamming the site, the Beijing Organising […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via inquirer.net: Chinese banks need to be on high alert to international financial market risks, the country’s top banking regulator said in remarks published on Tuesday. Traditional business dealings and long-term corporate investment were being replaced with “high-risk and high-return short-term speculation”, said Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission . […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: A letter from British lawmakers urging Beijing to shoulder more responsibility for ending the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region was irresponsible, China said Tuesday. On Monday, more than 100 British lawmakers, in a letter addressed to Chinese President Hu Jintao and delivered to the Chinese Embassy in London, called […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China condemned Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday for “disgusting conduct” for playing host to the Dalai Lama and demanded that Ottawa stop supporting anti-Chinese activities by exiled Tibetans. Harper defied China on Monday by receiving Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader in his office in Parliament, with television cameras and photographers present. He presented […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: Bao Zunxin, an activist who was jailed for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, has died, a fellow dissident said Monday. He was 70. Once considered one of China’s leading intellectuals, Bao died Sunday in Beijing from a brain hemorrhage, said Liu Xiaobo, a former professor at Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom YaleGlobal: If, as Adam Przeworski defines it, democracy is the “institutionalization of uncertainty,” the 17th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was one of the most democratic in Chinese history. But this was not the sort of uncertainty that Professor Przeworksi had in mind – and it’s not necessarily good news for either the […]
Read MoreA watermelon vendor outside Starbucks in Beijing, by zdzarski.junior
Read MoreDon’t panic, this is not a Chinese version of “Hellboy”. It is an armored illegal dog crackdown team in Zhengzhou city. Summarized and translated by CDT. Photos and story from East Today Daily: East Today Daily reported today that last Saturday scores of vehicles and members of the Urban Management Team were in battle array […]
Read MoreRecently, this list has been one of the hottest discussion items in Chinese cyberspace, translated by CDT: On September 19, Bank of Beijing, the biggest commercial bank with the largest assets, went public. It drew a great deal of attention, and the share price increased 81.44% in the first day with a trading volume of […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: We’ve written extensively at CMP about the institutional causes of poor media professionalism in China ” from the Lan Chengzhang case to the more recent “cardboard bun” hoax. Anticipating CMP fellow Lu Ye’s talk tonight on media corruption, we return again to the question of the deeper causes of poor ethics, […]
Read MoreImages here are of a showroom of yellow rosewood furniture replicated from a Ming Dynasty intellectual residence and a yellow rosewood tree, via sina.com. Translated by CDT from Xinmin Weekly (Êñ∞Ê∞ëÂë®Âàä) magazine: If you want to find the richest Chinese village, you may look elsewhere than the well-known Huaxi (ÂçéË•øÊùë). Now you may want to […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Xinhua: A recent survey of 180,000 netizens has found that Beijingers hate smoking in public spaces the most. And it pollutes the city’s air. Second and third most disliked bad habits are, respectively, aggressive driving and extravagant home-redecoration pollution. This is part of the clean air industries association’s campaign to “create […]
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