From Xinhua: A Beijing sociology professor said that Beijingers have shown improvement in etiquette over the past year. Sha Lianxiang, sociology professor with the People’s University of China, said that there has been a decline in the number of people littering, spitting and flaunting traffic rules. A research team of the university conducted a series […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Kristina Lew lives in Montgomery County with her consultant husband, raising a family. But yesterday, she was back in her girlhood home, Chinatown, observing the Lunar New Year with hundreds of others drawn to the historic D.C. neighborhood for the annual parade. Chinese consider this the beginning of 4705, the Year […]
Read MoreThe world faces a global warming disaster if the United States and China do not take decisive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a leading economist said at the U.N. Friday. Via AP: Jeffrey Sachs, speaking at the U.N. with British economist Sir Nicholas Stern, said the commitment of the two largest emitters of greenhouse […]
Read MoreA business article on prospects for Indian leather producers in The Economic Times suggests China is already suffering the economic costs of its new effort to shift in the direction of greener development–with happy results for its chief rival the Asian growth game: The recent clampdown by China on polluting tanneries has come as a […]
Read MoreEconomist Jagdish Bhagwati reviews The Writing on the Wall by Will Hutton in the New York Times: Is China now poised to turn the 21st century into its century? Or will it, despite its phenomenal nearly two-digit annual growth over the past 15 years, rejoin the human race with a slower economy? Or is it […]
Read MoreA man gets a tooth pulled at a village market in southern China, by Dan Eckstein
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Isabel Hilton follows up last week’s news of a mountain being painted green in southwestern China’s Fumin County with a commentary on what the incident reflects about China’s approach to environmental problems: The episode resonates with a long Chinese tradition of confusing appearance with reality. When, in the 1950s, Mao Zedong decreed […]
Read MoreThe New York Times editorial page weighs in on China’s expanding, but controversial, role in Africa: Beijing’s huge purchases of oil and other resources have made it the continent’s third-largest trading partner. Its callous yuan diplomacy is a growing problem for some of Africa’s worst-off people. China’s oil appetite has drawn it into an ugly […]
Read MoreFrom The Time Magazine: As China prepares to celebrate the Lunar New Year this weekend, there is much hyperbole about the country’s gleaming new skyscrapers, swelling middle class, dazzling preparations for the Olympics and so forth. But it is always worth getting a reality check on what underlies that rosy picture, the fact that China […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: TODAY the Chinese Year of the Pig begins, and Americans across the country will venture to their local Chinatowns for a festive meal. Yet despite the enduring popularity of Chinese food, many still see it as strictly a down-market cuisine, more the stuff of cheap takeout than one of the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The International Herald Tribune: China has long struggled to channel lending to rural China, from which mainstream banks have largely retreated. But now that the big city-oriented state banks have been more or less nursed back to health, the Communist Party is switching gears and backing an array of initiatives to build […]
Read MoreTwo networks reflect different comments on 2007 CCTV Spring Festival Party. Sina web survey shows that 50% of the audience thinks the party was boring, while Xinhua agency says over 80% of the audience found it interesting. From Eastern Morning Post, translated by CDT: The CCTV Spring Festival Party used to arrange for the audience […]
Read MoreFrom Sichuan Online, Translated by CDT: On Spring Festival Eve China’s largest hot pot kicked off in Chengdu, the hometown of spicy food. The pot is 4 meters high, weighs 12 tons, its diameter is 12 meters. It can contain 5 tons spicy soup and supply 60 people at once.
Read MoreToday the tenth anniversary of Deng’s death, is China really on the track of so called the “”socialism with Chinese characteristics” designed by Deng? From The Times: When Deng Xiaoping came to power in the late 1970s, the tallest building in China was the 18-floor Beijing Hotel. Today the Jingguang building soars to 53 storeys […]
Read MoreFirst Direct Flight Between Shanghai and Taipei in Spring Festival 2007, via ZJ.com.
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