From Financial Post: Outside the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre in the former French Concession neighbourhood, scalpers are pushing tickets to Le Diner de Cons, a French comedy starring China’s best-known Canadian. Dashan (§ß±±), otherwise known as Mark Rowswell, has been a fixture in China for the past two decades, since turning his exceptional command of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China is behaving irresponsibly in its trade relations with Africa and should better adhere to international standards, rights activist and Irish rocker Bob Geldof said on Tuesday. The anti-poverty campaigner told a corporate aid event in Finland China’s philosophy was mercantilist — based entirely on money without regard for political stability or the […]
Read MoreA pigsty on a farm in Heilongjiang, by +graemetric-
Read MoreThe Independent reports on how dissidents are spending their days in the run-up to the 17th Party Congress: Li Heping, a prominent lawyer, was reportedly abducted at the weekend by plain-clothed security officers who put a hood over his head and drove him in an unmarked car to a basement. He he was stripped and […]
Read MoreFrom Pakistan’s Daily Times, an often over-looked aspect of the recently much discussed relationship between Burma and China: The Muslim Rohingya is one of seven ethnic minority states which were formed under the Myanmar constitution of 1974, but human rights groups including Amnesty International have documented a catalogue of abuses by the junta… Nick Cheesman, […]
Read MoreIn my weekly commentary on Radio Free Asia (in Mandarin) , I talked about the underlying problems of reporting on corrupt officials on the Internet last month. Here is the transcript translated by the Radio Free Asia, from RFA Unplugged blog: A new trend is emerging as the use of the Internet becomes popularized in […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist blog: If you thought you’ve had enough of crazy architectural styles in Shanghai, wait till you see this piano house in Huainan, Anhui. Inside the transparent violin is the staircase to the house upstairs. Apparently, the building has been built by the local government to draw interest to the newly developed area. [Full […]
Read MoreFrom Heritage Foundation website: The Reagan Administration spent the first half of 1982 in increasingly tough negotiations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over America’s continuing arms sales to Taiwan following the 1979 shift of U.S. diplomatic relations to Beijing. The Carter Administration had insisted that, given congressional opinion, continuing limited arms sales to […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: While Myanmar’s military government cracks down on peaceful protesters, China, as one of the regime’s main benefactors, is being held in some quarters as tangentially co-responsible for the violence. Although China’s ability directly to influence the regime is limited, Beijing does maintain considerable diplomatic sway in Yangon, and whether it supports new […]
Read MoreFrom China Policy Institute website: The present policy discourse ‘harmonious society‘ (hexie shehui), and its foreign policy alter ego ‘harmonious world‘ (hexie shijie) has become the defining discourse of Hu Jintao’s reign as Party Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and State President of China. Following the reading of ‘Decisions by the CCP Central […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: Some fed-up Chinese just want to eat like pigs. In recent weeks, news that hogs are being specially raised to feed the athletes at the next year’s Beijing Olympics has spurred an outcry on the Internet. The pigs are reportedly being fed an organic diet and getting daily exercise, treatment that […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China spent the greater part of the last century struggling to become a modern nation. But after so many years spent looking outward and forward, some Chinese are once again looking inward and back ” way back, to the golden age of philosophers like Confucius (551-479 B.C.) and Zhuangzi (369-286 […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese farmers cultivated rice along the eastern coast as far back as 7,700 years ago and used fire and flood control measures to manage their fields, researchers said, citing new evidence. In a letter published in Nature late last week, geographers in Britain and China described how they found artifacts — bone, bamboo […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy said yesterday that his government is working hard to stem the violence in Burma and argued against efforts by activists to link participation in the Beijing-based 2008 Summer Olympics to China’s handling of Burma. Linking the two is “totally irresponsible,” Wang Baodong, spokesman for the […]
Read MoreA bird’s eye view of a construction site in Tianjin, by juicystyle
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