The need to affirm “dragon culture,” from Xinhua: China’s most revered culture of dragon, or loong by its Chinese pronunciation, needs to be thoroughly explored, said a political advisor here on Sunday. Dragon, an imaginary animal based on a 7,000-year-old Chinese legend, is a combination of a horse’s head, snake’s body and chook’s claws. It […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese universities boasting the largest number of students in the world are endangered by severe financial crisis, a result of the rapid enrollment expansion since 1999, warned deputies to the National People’s Congress (NPC), the top legislature. To cater for students who flock to campus for higher education in expectation of finding a […]
Read MoreFrom The China in Transition blog: Triggered DebateThe proposal of abolishing the notion of “illegal cohabitation,” referring to man and woman living together without legitimate marriage, has triggered harsh debate among China’s web-using public, who is widely divided on this issue. Han Deyun, an American-educated lawyer representing Chongqing in the National People’s Congress, said during […]
Read More(photo) Chinese President Hu Jintao (C, front) talks to female deputies during the panel discussion of deputies from southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality to the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People’s Congress on the occasion of International Women’s Day in Beijing, capital of China, March 8, 2007. From News of the Communist Party of China […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily (photo: a bookstore goer snaps a photo from a book with a cell phone, via Xinhua): Several bookstore owners in the city are unhappy about an increase in the number of people taking photos of pages in expensive books so they don’t have to pay for them. The bookstore shutterbugs, who are […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via Beijing Review (photo: economist Wu Jinglian wrapped up by reporters, via bjreview.com.cn): With a vast majority of Chinese upholding more public holidays, Wu Jinglian, a famous economist and a political advisor, said that China is still a developing country and should not have too many holidays. Wu said China has […]
Read MoreAn interesting angle on a not-so-interesting but important event. From Christian Science Monitor: I found it fascinating how boring it was. The organizers of the two-week meeting clearly prefer it like that, and they go out of their way to make sure it stays as predictable as they can make it. Insiders say that delegates […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News (photo: Chiang Kai-shek statue, via bbc.co.uk): Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), has expelled Defence Minister Lee Jye because of a row over statues of late leader Chiang Kai-shek. Mr Lee had complied with a government order for statues of Mr Chiang to be removed from military premises. The ruling DPP […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The New York Times: China barred any more cybercafes from opening this year, the latest move to restrict the rising influence of the Internet. The authorities will not approve any Internet cafe licenses in 2007, according to a notice posted on the Culture Ministry’s Web site. There are about 113,000 registered Internet […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: When it comes to asking not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country, look to the Chinese. With a record number of volunteers battling for a role in the Olympics, Beijing officials are now fretting about what to tell applicants who don’t […]
Read MoreFrom the Cox News Service via the St. Paul Pioneer Press: “China’s Southern Metropolis Weekly magazine recently reported this shocking news: The central government created universal health care for the country’s 1.3 billion people, wiped out bribery and reduced the country’s wide income gap. Migrant workers in the southern city of Guangzhou, notorious for its […]
Read MoreVia Jason Li of Virtual China blog.
Read MoreFrom Agence France-Presse: Premier Wen Jiabao said Monday that China needed to stop wasting energy and care more for the environment as its booming economy continues to soar. China is one of the most polluted countries in the world and last year missed official targets to cut pollution and improve environmental efficiency — a situation […]
Read MoreMore on the contemporary Chinese art fever. The New York Times reports that British art collector Charles Saatchi has just launched a Chinese edition of his website (the English version of which gets 13 million hits a day) as a place for Chinese artists to display their work: Known a decade ago for spotting talent […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A member of China’s parliament has demanded the immediate closure of a Starbucks coffee shop set up inside Beijing’s Forbidden City, the Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. Two months after a television host launched an online campaign to evict Starbucks Corp. from the former home of Chinese emperors, the seven-year-old store has […]
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