The Washington Post looks at the failure of China’s banks – and consumers – to adapt to the use of credit cards and other retail banking conveniences: Although China has made strides in reforming its banking system over the past five years — cracking down on corruption, buying out many troubled loans and allowing foreign […]
Read MoreLygia Navarro writes about how Chinese students, educated as atheists since they were in the kindergartens, get converted by Christian ministers when they are studying in the U.S., and what it means to those students. From East Bay Express: On a clear spring evening in Berkeley, Ying, a former atheist, goes to church. Inside the […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: President Hu Jintao of China said attempts to modernize the country’s political system must not jeopardize one-party rule, setting a conservative tone ahead of an important Communist Party conclave in the fall. Hu, who is also Communist Party chief, used a major address to the party, government and military elite in […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: … Now, while some locals still worry about Beijing’s political shadow, others are more concerned about the economic shadow cast by a different city to the north: Shanghai. They fear the fallout from its rapid rise, regaining the global prominence it had circa 1930. The anxiety over politics has not […]
Read MoreA girl taking care of a baby in Dongchuan District of Kunming in Yunnan, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia, written for the Web in English by Luisetta Mudie and edited by Sarah Jackson-Han: China’s information explosion was once expected to blow traditional government media controls wide apart. But the Communist Party’s powerful Central Propaganda Department still wields decisive influence over what gets published, media professionals throughout China say. “Newspapers, radio […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Zhou Fenying is a living witness to the dark history that still poisons China’s relations with Japan more than 60 years after World War Two. hen Zhou was 22, Japanese soldiers came to her village in eastern China, grabbed her and her sister-in-law and carted them off to a military brothel, she […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Cross-talk performer Hou Yaowen died of a heart attack in Beijing over the weekend. Hou, son of the even more famous cross-talk master Hou Baolin, was 59. Hou’s sudden, premature death has had domestic media – both online and off – following the story to a degree that prompted entertainment journalist He Dong […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times compares observing a professor try to teach Marxism to Chinese college students to “watching a man try to swim up a waterfall”: Classes in Marxist philosophy have been compulsory in Chinese schools since not long after the 1949 communist revolution. They remain enshrined in the national education law, Article 3 of […]
Read MoreIn the Wall Street Journal, lawyer Jerome Cohen commemorates the Anti-Rightist Movement, and discusses its legacy in China today: Despite the enormous economic and social progress that half of the Chinese people have made in recent decades, many of the complaints voiced by the “rightists” remain among China’s most pressing issues. Freedoms to speak, publish, […]
Read MoreChinese products are confronting more setbacks in the US. After some toothpaste and toys imported from China were found defective, another safety issue has been raised over tires produced by a Chinese manufacturer. As usual, the Chinese company involved in the issue, according to the Wall Street Journal, has been defending itself: The Chinese tire […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: Property prices in Shanghai , Beijing and Guangzhou are too high and developers should focus on the smaller Chinese cities as they grow richer, some real estate executives believe. “First-tier cities are getting too expensive,” Justin Chiu, executive director at Cheung Kong , Hong Kong’s biggest developer, said in an interview […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: A 22-mile long bridge that its builders claim is the world’s longest sea-crossing structure was formally linked-up Tuesday just south of the business hub of Shanghai. The bridge links Shanghai to the industrial city of Ningbo across Hangzhou Bay, cutting the distance between them from about 250 miles to just 50 miles. […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: Chinese exporters are scrambling to beat the introduction of cuts in export tax rebates, suggesting the potential for a bumper trade surplus for June. To help reduce the surplus, the government said last week that it would slash the refund of value-added tax on about 37 percent of its export categories […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday urged the armed police to always obey the orders of the Communist Party of China and to make greater contributions to building a harmonious society. Hu, also chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks when meeting 100 armed police, who were honored as […]
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