China Media Project has translated portions of an editorial from Southern Metropolis Daily about the “Wall of Shame” in Gansu: The Southern Metropolis Daily editorial does not shrink from the deeper import of the “wall of shame” story. It argues that the idea of a “new countryside” is not about new building projects, or even […]
Read MoreCaijing Magazine’s cover story is on U.S.-China trade. See here for links to all articles. From “Tough Love: Building a Durable Sino-U.S. Trade Relationship”: The recent flurry of activity on the U.S.-China trade front has caused consternation on both sides of the Pacific. Has the Bush administration changed course? Are we entering a new phase […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: Late last month, a husband-wife migrant laborer couple from China’s poverty-stricken Henan province working in Beijing killed themselves, leaving two teenage children to fend for themselves. Last week, Beijing-based Sohu blogger Li Yuanyuan took her camera and went to the younger child’s school to see how the community has reacted. In […]
Read MoreFrom www.hrichina.org, via the Washington Post: Passages from Wang Xiaoning‘s essays that were deemed objectionable by Chinese authorities: “Never forget that China is still an authoritarian dictatorship.” “Look at China today — workers and peasants have been suppressed into the lowest level of society. Tens of millions of workers are unemployed, and many workers are […]
Read MoreEye witness of the accident blogged,” no remains of human bodies can be seen. All melted into the cool steel — a piece of 70 square meters iron pancake.” More from Reuters: China has detained four people after a horrific accident in which more than 25 metric tons of molten steel engulfed a room where […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Peking University Science Park is drawing criticism from instructors and students for building a five-star hotel on campus, as reported by Beijing Youth Daily. The uproar was over the naming of the yet unfinished hotel after Weiming Lake(Êú™ÂêçÊπñ), the symbol of the university. Others condemned the construction will erode the learning atmosphere […]
Read MoreFrom Film Threat: The shootings at Virginia Tech shocked a nation, but will their aftermath continue to cause havoc? As a nation asks “why” and starts to formulate theories, one independent film may be about to find itself a victim of its own subject matter. Debuting at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, director Shi-Zheng Chen’s […]
Read MoreFrom China in Transition: The massacre at the Virginia Tech that left 33 people died has been one of the most discussed incidents among Chinese Internet users in the past 24 hours. Besides hundreds of comments expressing shock over the rampage and condolence for the victims, a large portion of the discussion touched on the […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: On April 16, the China Youth Daily reported the results of the latest study undertaken by Ipsos China. Some 80 percent of urban residents are satisfied with their lives and nearly half (46 percent) of urban residents believe that their standard of living has improved markedly in the last six months. […]
Read MoreFrom SAChina website, translated by Hegel Chong on his Reading China blog: According to Li Changping who was a former official and now an agricultural expert, the financial burden of Chinese peasant has been reduced by 120 billion RMB over the past three years. And they receive subsidy of 100 RMB per capita each year, […]
Read MoreA hawker begging an urban administrator to avoid being confiscated, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Chinese retail investors are opening new share trading accounts at a faster rate than ever before, in spite of increasing signs of a bubble in the mainland market. In the last week alone, more than 1m new accounts have been opened, taking the total for the last four months to more than […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A human rights group sued Yahoo Inc. Wednesday on grounds the U.S. search company assisted China’s communist government with torture by revealing information that led to the arrest of dissidents. The World Organization for Human Rights USA is seeking unspecified damages and wants Yahoo to actively secure the release of any detainees. The […]
Read MoreFollowing an investigation by the Washington Post and a report from Greenpeace, the U.S. International Trade Commission said they would investigate illegal logging practices by China: Lawmakers from timber-producing states have complained that as much as 30 percent of U.S. hardwood imports are from suspicious or illegal sources. Industry groups and members of Congress says […]
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue’s managing editor Dongying Wang (ÁéãÂܨËéπ) (photo: River Thames, via flickr.com): In fact, the Thames is acknowledged to be one of the world’s cleanest urban rivers. But like many of China’s rivers today, at one time urban and industrial growth threatened its ecosystem – almost to the point of collapse. China’s rapid industrialisation […]
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