From Xinhua, via China Daily: For centuries, Chinese women were discouraged from pursuing education so that they could be more “virtuous”. Confucius, China’s most famous thinker, educator and philosopher, would never have anticipated that 2,500 years later, his thought would be popularized among his Chinese descendants by a woman. Yu Dan, a 41-year-old media scholar […]
Read MoreFrom Real China blog via Virtual China blog: Virtual China blog introduced a Japanese blog named Real China with a good series of old photos in it. These photos illustrate people’s life-style of the time of 1979. [Click to see more photos] “One Family One Child” A traditional retirement ceremony:
Read MoreIn Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province, trucks are stuck by a sudden snowstorm, via Xinhua
Read MoreFrom statesman.com: Villagers in this hamlet of squat houses in southern China’s Guangdong province say red is the color of cancer. The local Laza River has been stained russet by waste from upstream mines in recent decades. The number of residents dying of various forms of cancer has spiked: Since 1998, 19 of 26 deaths […]
Read MoreFrom AP via San Francisco Examiner: China’s military spending will jump 17.8 percent this year, the spokesman for the National People’s Congress said Sunday. Jiang Enzhu told a news conference on the eve of the annual meeting of China’s legislature that military spending would hit nearly $45 billion in 2007, an increase of $6.8 billion […]
Read MoreBelow is a partial translation of an article written by Pan Xiaotao(ÊΩòÂ∞èÊ∂õ), a political commentator from Hong Kong, on Asia Times Online After the Chinese New Year, China’s Pearl River Delta area will suffer a “migrant worker shortage” again. Factories in the area will not be able to recruit enough ideal workers, and the situation […]
Read MoreFrom thrillingwonder blog: Amateur travel photography in China reaches new heights, as this site clearly shows. The splendor of the land complemented by growing skills and technology makes for a fascinating viewing. Here are a few samples:
Read MoreFrom The Standard (Hong Kong): The ruling Communist Party needs greater debate and “inner-party democracy” to improve the way it governs the country, Vice President Zeng Qinghong said.Speaking ahead of the party’s 17th congress to be held this year, Zeng was quoted by state media Friday as saying party members should not be afraid to […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China is to introduce steps to punish famous and wealthy violators of its one-child policy, senior officials say. The move came in response to complaints from ordinary people that the rich were having more children because they could afford the fines, officials said. Measures could include recording violators’ names and making them […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: Qin Fangyi’s religious moment came after a walk in the pouring rain two years ago to a nunnery for a ceremony that her mother had urged her to attend. Qin’s mother converted to Buddhism two years earlier despite her husband’s open hostility to religion, and quietly nudged her daughter into having […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: In China huge cities are springing up and city jobs are being created for more than 500 million agricultural workers who are no longer needed in the fields. One village in south west China has been designated as the new capital of remote Wuxi county. But progress has not been as smooth […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via Channel News Asia: China on Saturday began its annual parliamentary session with calls to address a widening wealth gap, environmental degradation and other ills attending its economic growth. The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a rubber-stamp advisory body, opened its 12-day session on Saturday afternoon at the Great Hall of the […]
Read MoreChinese now have a profession: cell phone text message composers. Some doctors are starting to deal with thumb injuries too, thanks to a booming text messaging culture. And people are getting annoyed by this new form of human-less communication. From Page One of the Wall Street Journal: Xiangdong has an unusual Chinese New Year wish […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Experts have warned of environmental pollution from increased animal husbandry, as the country became the world’s top meat and egg producer last year. “Domestic animal and poultry waste has become a major source of environmental pollution,” Oriental Outlook Weekly quoted Wu Weixiang, associate professor with Zhejiang University‘s College of Agriculture, as saying […]
Read MoreReuters and CNS all reported on the female terracotta warrior sculptures by Norwegian artist Marian Heyerdahl, who had her exhibition in Beijing’s 798 Art District. Heyerdahl made her works by duplicating the original terracotta warriors from Qin Shi Huangdi’s mausoleum in their original scale. From last September Heyerdahl lived in Xi’an Lintong to closely observe […]
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