Arthur Kroeber, the managing editor of China Economic Quarterly published following essay on the Financial Times: People in the rich world perturbed by China’s rise spend a great deal of time these days consoling themselves with a political fantasy. China’s economy may be growing fast, the argument goes, but unless that growth is matched by […]
Read MoreChinese young are no different than Americans, at least in terms of spending, such as on wedding. From Xinhua via China Daily (photo: nice furnishing and a cozy home are increasingly part of newly-wed couples, via alibaba): China’s marriage-related industries like wedding photography and wedding ceremony services pluck an average of 125,000 yuan (about 16,000 […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: The strongest March snowstorm to hit northeast China’s Liaoning Province in 56 years has left at least one person dead and seven injured after the roof of an agricultural trade building collapsed under the weight of the snow, local sources said. Three arched ceilings of the Minglian Agricultural Trade Building […]
Read More“Listen, China: long way to go!” Those are the words of caution, and perspective, from a couple of Chinese economics scholars. Analysis from Beijing Review (photo: a shipbuilding yard in Zhejiang, via Xinhua): In 2005, China’s gross domestic product ranked fourth in the world, overtaking Britain that year. If income through overseas investments was added, […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: In spite of the benefit of being ruled by a “living Buddha,” decades of planning and a cost of billions of dollars, parts of the Beijing-Lhasa railway, China’s “engineering miracle,” are sinking. Specifically, those sections where the project attempts to maintain stability atop the seasonal thawing and refreezing of the permafrost, according to […]
Read MoreIn extreme cases, doctors now need to arm themselves to fend off potential attacks from patients or their families. Health care has topped Chinese concerns. From Beijing Review magazine (nurses at Shanxia Hospital in helmets at work, via China Daily): On December 24 hospital staff at Shanxia Hospital (±±Âé¶ÂåªÈô¢), a private 460-bed hospital in the […]
Read MoreFrom Virtual China Blog: “Second Life has no Chinese port yet. Welcome to HipHi, a China-produced and Chinese language version of Second Life…Screenshots and a demo clip reveal a rather unoriginal take on Second Life, though their website claims that they will later provide Flash & cell phone interfaces to the virtual world.”[Full Text] For […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Chinese businessman Cao Yanglin let his lunch of slow-cooked beef rib with truffle puree and lemon cream sauce go cold as he talked about his gambling spree the night before at the baccarat tables in Macau — the world’s new epicenter for gambling. The 58-year-old property developer said he won […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: When Sports Illustrated‘s swimsuit issue hit the newsstands last week in China for the first time, with the sexy singer Beyonc√© on the cover, the competition was fierce. Readers here had already seen the February issue of For Him Magazine, which features a Chinese singer named A Duo on its cover […]
Read MoreFrom Time: Old Zhao, his fellow miners called him — a weary-looking man, 54, wearing a yellow safety helmet and a miner’s lamp strung around his neck, black coal dust embedded in the lines on his forehead and lightly...
Read MoreFrom xinhua via China.org.cn: Close on 5 million people and more than 2.5 million head of livestock on the Chinese mainland are suffering drinking water shortages as drought continues to grip parts of the country. Shandong, a major agricultural province on east China’s seaboard, has been suffering from drought since autumn. In Guizhou, a land-locked […]
Read MoreFrom The Atlantic: A singing workforce, Mongolian millionaires in Porsches, and saving the planet”inside the empire of a Chinese tycoon with more than money on his mind. The first time I met the Chinese tycoon Zhang Yue, he was showing guests the Versailles-style palace he has built on his estate. This was happening far from […]
Read MoreFrom Gulf Times: Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian yesterday warned China’s leaders that his island was “very likely … to take more actions toward further independence” and that China itself was to blame. China’s missile deployments and “very hostile posture toward Taiwan” would drive the island’s 23mn people toward more autonomy, Chen said in an interview […]
Read MoreFrom Taiwan News Online: Despite resistance from the opposition, senior government leaders decided yesterday to rename the Chiang Kai-shek (ËªãÁü≥) Memorial Hall to the Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall and to remodel it into a showcase of achievements of Taiwan’s democratization. The name change was part of a drive to rectify Taiwan’s title and to redefine […]
Read MoreIt is the Lantern Festival today, the lunar January 15th. Traditionally, Chinese people are going to the lantern exhibition and eating Yuan Xiao(sweet sticky rice ball with red bean or black sesame stuffin) to celebrate this last holiday of the lunar new year. View the photos from Nanjing Fuzi Temple lantern exhibition via Sina.com.
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