From Guangzhou Daily, Translated by CDT: Yesterday, Foshan bus companies publicly reported on increasing cases of counterfeit money and false bus passes used on buses. Since 2004, Foshan bus companies have seized over 2,000 false bus passes and received about RMB 1.92 million yuan ($250,000 dollars) in counterfeit money, which included RMB 1.88 million yuan […]
Read MoreAnti-corruption storm knocked down 101 officials in Anhui Fuyang in 2005. The storm in Anhui continued in 2006 and was called the Loud Thunder and Fast Rain by People’s Daily. This time an Anhui official is facing to be in prison for his rest of life. From People’s Daily: Zhang Shaocang, former head of a […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports on the challenges faced by the country’s censors as they confront new technologies: More than a quarter-century after Deng Xiaoping launched the country on a course of drastic reforms, the party at all levels has clung to rigid censorship over information and art — including folk songs in a dialect only […]
Read MoreZhang Xiaogang, contemporary Chinese artist, in his Beijing studio, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreHolland Cotter of the New York Times writes about several exhibits by contemporary Chinese artists slated to open in coming months: So far New Yorkers may wonder what all the fuss is about. Apart from a few major big-bang events, like “Inside Out: New Chinese Art” at the Asia Society and P.S. 1 in 1998 […]
Read MoreA new Canadian study says Chinese manufacturers should not bear primary responsibility for the recent spate of toy recalls: A new Canadian study examining toy recall records suggests that while problems have been found in China’s factories, toy companies should shoulder their fair share of the blame for faulty designs and varying standards. …”The big […]
Read MoreWith the focus on exports arriving in the U.S. from China, Slate Magazine looks at what exactly the U.S. is exporting to China: Economists make a big deal out of all the junk we import from China: tainted pet food, lead-laced toys, and enough cheap plastic tchotchkes to load up a landfill the size of […]
Read MoreFrom RConversation: It’s not every day that you get to sit and watch a senior Chinese diplomat rip Thomas Friedman “a new one” (as we say in American colloquial parlance) as all the Chinese members of the audience cheer him on. But on Friday morning in a panel discussion titled “China’s Soft Power” that’s what […]
Read MoreFrom the Shanghaiist: In a government-sponsored survey on spirituality in China that was conducted earlier this year, officials were shocked to find that 31.4 percent of Chinese 16 or older are religious, putting the number of religious believers in China at approximately 400 million — way higher than initially thought. Over the last few years, […]
Read MoreFrom AP: With a deafening roar, eight Mirage fighter jets shoot upward from the darkened runway at Taiwan’s Hsinchu Air Force Base, armed with a deadly array of missiles and a mission to knock out incoming Chinese warplanes. It’s only a simulation, of course, but the tensions are always real, and lately have ratcheted up […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Thousands of Chinese music fans flocked to a park in Beijing this weekend to see some of the West’s most subversive bands, who infused the annual Pop Festival with serious rock-and-roll attitude. Crowds were expected to swell on Sunday for shows by anti-establishment industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails and China’s political bad boy […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China reported 18,543 new cases of HIV/AIDS in the first half of this year, state media said, near the number for the whole of 2006. Drug abuse was the main cause of new infections, Xinhua news agency quoted Han Mengjie, an official with AIDS Control Work Committee of the State Council, as saying […]
Read MoreFew experiences capture the essence of China’s rise as an industrial powerhouse as vividly as a journey into one of the vast factory towns of the Pearl River Delta. The chemical fumes and roar of machinery are a reminder that like almost nowhere else in the world, southern China has become the focal point on […]
Read MoreUnlike Ang Lee‘s film Brokeback Mountain’s unsuccessful experience in China, this time his film Lust Caution will be launched in China. Brokeback Mountain touched on a subculture, homosexuality, and was banned from being shown in the country. Similarly, Ang Lee had to edit out the controversial sexual scenes for the Chinese version of Lust Caution. […]
Read MoreIn an often eager effort to be listed on Guinness record, and increase hometown publicity, local governments in China often rely on the number of human bodies they can mobilize. Here are two pictures of a mass performance of the Chinese zither (guzheng) in Huludao (葫芦岛) on August 8, 2007.
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