From Frog in a Well blog: Chinese culture is global culture. Though Hawai’i is, in some ways, not a good sample, nonetheless there’s an awful lot of Chinese culture which has been nativized here, well beyond the presence of significant Chinese communities. Actually, this island has the lowest ratio of Chinese of any of the […]
Read MoreAmerican violinist Robert Thompson, who lives in Yunnan Province, has filmed a short documentary about his experience buying a water buffalo to donate to a poor family of farmers.
Read MoreOn AsiaMedia, James F. Paradise reviews the latest volume of China’s Media & Entertainment Law: One way the Chinese government has attempted to control the media and entertainment industries has been through media and entertainment law. The laws — and all the other rules and regulations by which the media environment is shaped — state […]
Read MoreA farmer with ducks in southern Hunan, by Patrick Besha
Read MoreVirtual China has posted a brief summation of three current internet based language learning initiatives, one of which is an online game dedicated to Chinese language learning. From the text: IBM’s John Tolva alerted me to the Confucius Institute at Michigan State University, which has two efforts I’m particularly interested in. The first is an […]
Read MoreFrom The the AP, via the Washington Post: A group of Chinese scholars and retired officials has petitioned China’s legislature to halt the privatization of state companies, arguing it has widened the country’s income gap and fueled social unrest, a petitioner said Tuesday. The petition strikes a discordant note just weeks before the annual session […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s recent missile test has raised fears about the country’s growing military capabilities. The US and other nations all voiced their concerns about an arms race in space. There were also complaints from neighbours like Japan and Taiwan who worry about China’s military power. So why the fuss?After all, the technology that […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The idea of soft power – invented by Joseph Nye, a Harvard professor – is that countries can often best achieve their objectives by persuasion rather than force. While the instruments of “hard” power are military and economic, the instruments of soft power are cultural and ideological. Now the Chinese themselves are […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times: If all goes to plan, China will for the first time ever in July host joint military exercises with troops from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the strongest indication yet that Beijing’s recent economic charm offensive toward the region is starting to pay real strategic dividends. Beijing extended […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times: Department, which handles the appointment and promotion of senior party and government officials, is directly under Zeng‘s supervision. Given this portfolio, it is logical for Zeng to be assigned to head the preparatory group on personnel affairs. Nevertheless, it still shows that Zeng, who used to be regarded as a protege […]
Read MoreFrom The China Blog -Time: As many of you know, Jim McGregor’s book, “One Billion Customers, Lessons From the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, ” is one of the best `China books’ of the past couple of years. Jim’s a former reporter–WSJ Bureau Chief in Beijing–who went on to bigger and better things. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The International Herald Tribune: European Union companies are denied business opportunities in China worth at least ‚Ǩ20 billion a year because of nontariff trade barriers, according to a study published by the European Commission. The survey, conducted by consultants for the EU executive, said China offered huge opportunities for European business, especially […]
Read MoreGe Jianxiong (ËëõÂâëÈõÑ) is a professor and director of Institute of Chinese History and Geography Studies of Fudan University. His following article “How Big was the Ancient China” is published on the China Review magazine and syndicated to China’s biggest internet portals like 163 and QQ. The translation is done by Letters from China blog: […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: China has made substantial breakthroughs in shipbuilding as the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship made in China, one of the most advanced in the world, will be delivered in September. Only the Republic of Korea, Japan and a few European countries have acquired the technologies to build such ocean liners. […]
Read MoreFrom new Kerala.com: Abortion rates among teens in Hangzhou, capital of China’s Zhejiang province have shot up this month as students rush to a free local clinic to terminate their pregnancies while on vacation from schools and colleges. Busy doctors from the Hangzhou Youth Reproduction Health Service Centre said they were struggling to keep up […]
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