Arthur Waldron wrote the following on the blog of Commentary Magazine: From China comes news, reported in the Chinese-language newspaper World Journal, that the works of Lu Xun“the country’s greatest modern author, a founder of the Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers, and a longtime favorite of the Communists”are being removed from high school curricula. These […]
Read MoreThe following op-ed, about the government’s use of restrictions on travel to control political dissidents, appeared on the blog of the Duihua Foundation: The reunion last week of Boston-based Chinese dissident Yang Jianli with his wife and son after five years in a Chinese prison hopefully marks the first of many conciliatory gestures Beijing will […]
Read MoreWith the 17th Party Congress about to start and the 2008 Olympics Games approaching, censorship of Chinese media and the Internet has intensified more and more. According to the Beijing Evening News, starting from September 1,...
Read MoreFrom Project Syndicate, via Taipei Times: Two countries — the US and China — remain unconcerned with global efforts to create a new post-Kyoto framework on climate change. Fifty years ago, the rest of the world might have carried on with remedying the problem of greenhouse gas emissions and let China and the US stew […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: Since Internet addiction disorder (IAD) was first introduced by Dr. Goldberg as a new type of addiction in 1995, Internet addiction has been widely covered. Research has been published; diagnostic standards as...
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: Yahoo yesterday asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the Internet giant of abetting torture and abuse of pro-democracy writers in China. Yahoo acknowledged releasing personal user information about the writers to the Chinese government, but said it had to comply with the country’s lawful request and therefore cannot be held […]
Read MoreMembers of 20088, China’s youngest rock band, rehearse before a show, by sheilaz413
Read MoreThe Times looks at the recent deal by Taiwan’s Acer to buy U.S.-based Gateway through the lens of cross-straits relations: The deal represents a double setback to Lenovo and to China, which has a bitter and longstanding dispute with Taiwan over the island’s independence. Roger Kay, the president of Endpoint Technologies, an American consultancy, said: […]
Read MoreNot only are there Olympic pigs, here is news about Olympic vegetables. From Chengdu Evening news, excerpts translated by CDT: The Beijing Olympic Games will be a grand festival, and for several hundred thousand Olympics...
Read MoreThe news of secret breeding centers for Olympics pigs is all over the Chinese cyberspace. A typical reaction is from blogger bbcjy commenting on his Happy as a Fish blog, translated by CDT: The fact there are “Olympics...
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: China’s government plans to pour billions of dollars into special projects to help meet the country’s energy-saving targets. Local officials are also about to come under increased pressure to toe the government line to meet the targets, otherwise their political futures could be in jeopardy. A top official from the National […]
Read MoreFrom AP via CBS News: Two Chinese brothers clawed their way out of a collapsed coal mine after surviving underground for nearly six days, shocking grieving relatives who had burned money for the men’s souls to use in the afterlife, state media said Monday. The China Daily newspaper ran a front-page story about the Meng […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Workers at French supermarket chain Carrefour are being probed by Chinese authorities on suspicion of bribery. Eight employees are alleged to have given contracts to fresh food suppliers in exchange for bribes, said reports. Carrefour confirmed that it recently unveiled “practices in contradiction with Chinese laws”. It added that it was working […]
Read MoreConcerns are mounting about how Beijing’s air pollution may affect Olympic athletes next year. The New York Times reports from the Track and Field World Championships in Osaka, Japan, where the extreme heat and humidity has made competing difficult for some athletes: At next year’s Olympics in Beijing, if pollution levels in that city are […]
Read MoreAccording to a new report from the OECD, China needs more innovation in order to become an advanced economy. From AP: Better protection of patents and other intellectual property, more cooperation between the government and the private sector and reforms to foster competitive markets are among the top needs the Paris-based OECD outlined in a […]
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