AP reports that “some Chinese filmmakers say Beijing still views movies as a propaganda tool ” not an entertainment product.” This time, China Film Group called for patriotic movies and “pointed to Will Smith’s ‘The Pursuit of Happyness‘ as an example.” From IHT: Han added nationalism was also common in U.S. movies, saying they often […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: A China Airlines plane with 157 passengers on board caught fire after its right engine burst into flames and spread to its left engine at Naha airport in Okinawa, Japan, a popular beach resort. The passengers and crew were evacuated safely, the Taipei-based airline said. The engines of the Boeing Co. 737-800 caught […]
Read MoreThe latest NetNews This Week (ÁΩë‰∫ã‰∏ÄÂë® ) column from newly installed Netease Blog Editor Wen Yuchao notes a rash of recent blog bans and deletions. Foremost among these is the early death of an Olympics blog recently launched by China Sports Illustrated reporter Gua Erjia (ÁìúÂ∞îÂä† ). Translated by Global Voices Online: On August 16 […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a firsthand account of the journalists who were beaten while reporting on the collapse of the bridge in Hunan (original Chinese here). Five reporters from five papers had gone to a hostel where family members of victims of the collapse were gathering: There was nobody at the reception. The local government required […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Kazakhstan and China have agreed to build pipelines to carry oil and gas from fields near the Caspian Sea, one of the world’s most promising new oil provinces, to China. “The Caspian will be linked to western China,” Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, said after a meeting with Hu Jintao, the […]
Read MoreThe Ministry of Education signals the end of an English-improvement drive launched last year with a new report reassuring the world that China “has set strict standards on the use of both Chinese and English in service industry to better meet the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.” Via Eastday.com: The report showed that China has regulated […]
Read MoreChina’s future efforts to develop nuclear power technology will be based on Westinghouse‘s reactors. Reported by AP: China began building the first nuclear power plant in its northeast on Saturday, part of a rapid nuclear expansion meant to curb growing use of coal and oil, a state news agency said. The 50 billion yuan (US$6.5 […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing.com.cn: Two-year-old free trade talks between China and Australia have encountered some difficulties, particularly in areas of market access, Australia’s lead negotiator Ric Wells said in an August 13 interview. Wells, the point man in Beijing for the Australian Foreign Affairs and Trade Department , is urging China to follow his country’s lead by […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Yahoo.com: The steep paper losses that China has suffered on its $3 billion investment in Blackstone Group will not deter its embryonic sovereign wealth fund from making further investments in private equity and hedge funds, according to a senior official. Shares in Blackstone closed on Friday at $24.08, down 22.3 percent from […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: A staff of the China-EU Association has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison with a two-year reprieve by a Chinese court for her role in the scandal in which more than 10 Chinese officials were refused entry by Finnish authority for using a forged invitation letter. The court in […]
Read MoreChina Daily carried Xinhua’s report on the relationship between China and Japan and says that “more and more Chinese and Japanese have positive views on relations between the two countries with the improvement in bilateral ties, according to a joint survey by the two sides.” …More than 60 percent of the Chinese and Japanese polled […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Women constitute more than one third of scientists in China, according to an international seminar on women in science recently held in Beijing. “More than 70 women are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) or the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), said Deng Nan, vice president of the China Association […]
Read MoreShen Baoxiang (Ê≤àÂÆùÁ••) is a Professor of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party and former Chief Editor of Theoretical trends (ÁêÜËÆ∫Âä®ÊÄÅ). The original was published in Study Times (Â≠¶‰π†Êó∂Êä•) and can be found here. From China Elections and Governance (translated by Toy Reid): “Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the banner of a […]
Read MoreBelow is a video showing how to use Chinese chopstick, by Lifehacker via Shanghaiist. [Click to see the original video and the text part]
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