Americans go to Shenzhen to seek experimental stem cell therapy, from Salon’s “How the World Works”: Reading the blog postings of patients who have undergone experimental stem cell therapy in China, I found myself recalling the “black clinics” of Chiba city dreamed up by William Gibson in his breakthrough novel “Neuromancer.” In Japan, he’d known […]
Read MoreFrom Voice of America: A Chinese government audit has found that local officials have misused $4 billion in social security funds that are meant to provide a safety net for China’s growing population of retirees. As VOA’s Michael Lipin reports from Hong Kong, one reason for the massive fraud is Beijing’s lack of supervision of […]
Read MoreIn The Atlantic Monthly, James Fallows has written about reality TV in China. The full article is available by subscription only, but you can watch subtitled video clips of the shows here. From the article: Right now the curse of Chinese TV, apart from its being state-controlled and de facto censored, is the proliferation of […]
Read MoreFrom Peering Into the Interior blog: This is a fairly open and controversial documentary about Sex and the generation of Chinese who were born in the 1980’s. Titled ÂÜ∞Â∫¶80Â𥉪£Ëç∑Â∞îËíô in Chinese. Everything is discussed from their first time, threesomes, whatever you name it is on here. Even though this is on YouTube, its actually on […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: China is on the road to democracy, but not necessarily to Western-style democracy, China’s premier said Friday, citing the country’s unique concerns and the challenge of operating within a socialist framework. During a rare two-hour meeting with journalists in the cavernous Great Hall of the People, Wen Jiabao delivered a series of […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: Of all the steps that China has taken away from its Communist past since reforms began nearly 30 years ago, few have boasted the symbolic power of the law that parliament is due to pass next Friday. The Property Law, for the first time since the 1949 Chinese revolution, offers […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: China’s Central Bank Announces 0.27 Percentage Point Increase in Key Interest Rates China’s central bank said Saturday it will raise key interest rates by more than a quarter percentage point in a move to cool torrid economic growth.The 0.27 percentage point hike in one-year deposit and lending benchmark rates will go into […]
Read MoreThe folk tradition of making up shunkouliu, doggerel satire known among Sinologists as “slippery jingles”, thrives today in the Chinese vernacular – mostly in the form of politically tinged gripes about social...
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Li Yan, a 28-year-old terminal cancer patient, has been in the spotlight lately after popular CCTV investigative news anchor woman Chai Jing posted a message from her, conveying Li’s wish that the NPC (National People’s Congress), which is convening for the annual session, considers a draft on peaceful death, or euthanasia. Li, […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Thirty national legislators have proposed a ban on smoking in public, but concede imposing such a rule would be hard habit to crack in China, which has an estimated 350 million smokers. In a motion before the National People’s Congress the legislators claimed as many as 600 million Chinese people are exposed […]
Read MoreRed flags in front of the Great Hall of the People, by Don McCain
Read MoreFrom Sun22Surf: China’s Internet censors cut out a question by a foreign reporter to Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday about democracy and a disgraced former leader, making no mention of it on a Web cast of Wen’s annual press conference. The journalist had asked, in English, about comments attributed to ousted Communist Party chief Zhao […]
Read MoreAsia Times has another review of James Mann’s The China Fantasy: James Mann, longtime analyst of Sino-US relations, has written a new book, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, in which he plays the role of an observer attempting to prick our collective conscience and ask whether the US is committing […]
Read MoreFrom AP, a look at the role grassroots activists are playing in protests those the recent one in Yongzhou, Hunan: Zhang is part of a burgeoning breed of activists. Eager for social justice and linked by the Internet, they are challenging the party’s once tight grip on political life and showing how its information monopoly […]
Read MoreFrom McClatchy Newspapers: China’s Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday repeated claims that the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, threatens the unity of the nation and may be trying to separate his Himalayan homeland from China. Surveying the situation in crucial outlying regions within China’s sphere, Wen also criticized what he called the […]
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