From The Global Voices Online: Crazy English is a private education agency in which the founder Li Yang advocates a new method to study English; namely, to shout out antiquated English phrases and seize every chance to approach an English speaker for a conversation, all for sweeping the shyness away. Learners should scream deafening English […]
Read MoreChina Roses(Chinese women’s national football) have supported Chinese audience’s passion in football, after Chinese men’s national football lost so many times. Will the roses turn to golden ones at the Women’s World Cup this fall ? Who sponsored the game this year? From Shanghaiist:
Read MoreFollowing news that a man died after playing online games for three days straight, a health-oriented portal in China has released a report which reveals that Internet users may not be living the healthiest of lifestyles. From ChinaTechNews: According to the newly released “White Book on Chinese Netizens’ Health Status”, more than 40% of Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Illegal land acquisition is posing a grave threat to the country’s diminishing arable land, a senior land official warned Monday. Improper land use also hurts farmers’ interests and threatens social stability, Gan Zangchun, deputy State land inspector-general of the Ministry of Land and Resources, said. “Violations of land laws and regulations have […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: For the third year in a row, the Beijing Pop Festival attracted thousands of music lovers to the Chinese capital. But this year was different. Anti-establishment bands from the West played alongside controversial local rocker Cui Jian — whose songs became anthems to the 1989 student movement. It was a rare opportunity […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Talks due to start this week on the dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme have been postponed, it was announced today. The six-party talks between Russia, China, the US, Japan and North and South Korea were aimed at setting a timetable for final decommissioning of the state’s nuclear capabilities. They were […]
Read MoreA new outbreak of bird flu in Guangzhou has been confirmed by China’s agricultural ministry after thousands of ducks died in a village days ago. From AFP: The ministry said Saturday that 9,830 ducks had died in a village outside the southern city of Guangzhou, not far from the border with Hong Kong, between September […]
Read MoreThe Independent looks at the production of Mandarin-language versions of popular Broadway and West End musicals: To Western audiences, musicals may be a frothy and uplifting way to spend the evening, but like so much else, they are highly politicised in China. For many years, not a chorus line nor a technicolour dreamcoat were to […]
Read More“Yueguang Zu”/ÊúàÂÖâÊóè(empty monthly wage group) is used to describe the group of young Chinese white-collar workers who spend their total salary on luxury goods or to live expensive and comfortable lives. Here is an example. From Reuters: Waiting for a friend in Shenzhen’s plush Kingglory Plaza, Chen Jing, 25, admired her new Nokia mobile phone. […]
Read MoreA humanitarian crisis in Darfur and abundant oil in Sudan have put the U.S. and China on a collision course. From Global Pulse, via Youtube:
Read MoreTrends Media Group is China’s premier glossy magazine house, publishers of mainland versions of Cosmo, Esquire, and Men’s Health among other fancy titles. In August, Trends launched a coordinated marketing campaign to turn its readers on to “lifestyles of health and sustainability”, i.e. LOHAS, the latest consumer cult to enter China. “Look good, feel good, […]
Read MoreFrom China Business Information Center: Authoritarianism is noble. Individualism is selfish. Liberal democracy yields economic stagnation (or worse) and technocratic dictatorship produces sustained growth. Is this how mainland Chinese really feel? Through the Looking Glass. Chinese values exist in a parallel universe, one in which our white is their black and their black our white. […]
Read MoreFrom Ifri’s Proliferation Papers: On October 15, 2003 China became only the third nation capable of manned spaceflight, joining the United States and Russia in that exclusive club. Subsequently, its second manned launch, this time carrying two taikonauts, occurred on October 2, 2005. Then on January 11, 2007 China joined the United States and Russia […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: A Chinese journalist imprisoned for two years for posting politically sensitive essays on the Internet said Sunday he had been released. Li Yuanlong, 47, was detained in September 2005 and convicted of “inciting subversion of state sovereignty” for his essays carried by several overseas websites banned in China. Li told AFP he was […]
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