From RFA Unplugged: I must admit, when I first heard about the almond groves of Yarkand, it sounded highly romantic. I imagined half-buried tombs of ancient kings, oasis towns with bearded scholars of the Quran teaching young boys outside intricately patterned mosques so much for my highly Orientalist fantasy epitomised by this collection of old […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Gao Zhisheng, one of China’s most outspoken dissidents until his conviction on sedition charges late last year, said in a recorded statement made available over the weekend that while his confession had resulted in a light sentence, it had been made under mental and physical duress. Gao Zhisheng, a Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom PC World: Faced with mounting questions over similarities with a rival’s software, Google Sunday acknowledged that a dictionary of Chinese words used with one of its recently released software tools came from a third party. The statement came as Google faces a looming deadline to stop downloads of the software and issue an apology… […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China’s anti-satellite test in January increased the country’s military threat to Taiwan by demonstrating a limited ability to blind the U.S. satellites that would be deployed in defense of the island, according to a report released Tuesday… In the January test, China used a missile to destroy one of its own old weather […]
Read MoreFrom PC World: “Google Inc. has commented on a new software tool it released in China this week, although it did not address allegations that the software bears more than a passing resemblance to a rival’s product. “Two days ago we launched our Chinese Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME) as a test product in Google […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Advertisers are going into overdrive to reach their targets, and their overwhelming efforts paid off as it becomes almost impossible for anyone to escape from ads, but besides big companies, young kids are paying the price, too. “Liang Liang, come here to use the washroom,” asked the teacher, but the five-year-old boy […]
Read MoreFrom Villagevoice: A first encounter with the paintings of Wei Dong includes a few double takes. You feel an odd displacement, as if you’ve stumbled into an art-history dream where time- traveling European masters, eager to shuck off age-old propriety, are checking out the erotic possibilities of 21st-century China…. Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region but […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua: China’s seas generated 2.09 trillion yuan ($270 billion), or just over 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) last year, according to a report on the country’s marine economy in 2006. The report, issued by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), said last year’s output value of marine industries, including fishing, […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: The National People’s Congress (NPC) held a forum on Wednesday to discuss food safety and specifically how to overcome obstacles in revising the Food Hygiene Law. NPC deputies and officials from various departments attended the forum to discuss the establishment of a food safety supervision system, a food safety risk evaluation system, […]
Read MoreFrom the China Post: One person died and more than 200 people fell sick after eating food that may have been contaminated with rat poison at a hospital restaurant in northeast China, state media and the hospital said Tuesday. Xinhua News Agency said the victims included patients and staff at the Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital of […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via SawfNews: Chinese art buyers have made a huge impact on the Asian market and are now poised to make inroads into the high-value international scene, says the new Asia chairman of one of the world’s major auction houses. Kevin Ching says one of his aims as the newly-appointed chairman of Sotheby’s in […]
Read MoreFrom StratFor: Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang elected Wu Poh-hsiung as its new chairman April 7, replacing former Chairman Ma Ying-jeou, who resigned amid accusations of corruption. Immediately following the election, Chinese President and Communist Party of China Chairman Hu Jintao sent congratulations to Wu, while Chinese state media reported matter-of-factly about Wu’s election. Beijing’s response to […]
Read MoreThis is Chas W. Freeman’s remarks to the China Studies Center, Washington, DC on 27 March 2007: We are here to inaugurate a new center for research, analysis, and education about China, a country to our far West that never...
Read MoreFrom The China Blog – Time: Having trouble getting a coherent picture of China as a rising power? No wonder. The contradictory images are difficult to reconcile. China calls itself a responsible power — a term it...
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