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A gardner tends the Third Ring Road median in Beijing. Photo by Natalie Behring.
Read MoreBeijing: 170,000 Couples Married in 2006 – CRIEnglish
From CRIEnglish via Xinhua: More than 170,000 couples married in Beijing in 2006, up 77 percent over 2005, a year witnessing the most weddings in the past 25 years. Beijing Evening News reports the Beijing administrative office of marriage says the annual number of weddings totaled only 70,000 to 120,000 in the past five years. […]
Read MoreAmong Chinese, Fear and Prejudice About Hepatitis B – Maureen Fan
From the Washington Post: Liao, a 28-year-old engineer, worked at a large electronics company in this coastal province town, two hours west of Shanghai. He helped decide where to place large production machines on the factory floor, and how many workers were needed on which assembly lines. Last year, he won an award for good […]
Read MoreChina Has No Plans for New Tests – Hiroko Tabuchi
From AP, via Houston Chronicle: China has no plans to carry out another test of an anti-satellite weapon, Japan’s former defense chief said Monday, citing a conversation with the Chinese defense minister. Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan‘s reported remarks are the latest attempt by Beijing to tamp down criticism over last month’s test, in which […]
Read MoreOnline Marxist archive blames China for electronic attacks – Noam Cohen
From The International Herald Tribune: If ever there was a believer in the power of the written word, it was a best- selling author and former librarian, Mao Zedong. As Mao explained to an early chronicler of his life, Edgar Snow, “Three books especially deeply carved my mind, and built up in me a faith […]
Read MoreIs drought the new normal for the Yangtze? – Liao Jiehua and Qiu Min
Three Gorges Probe translated and posted an abridged version of an article that ran in the Guangzhou Daily: Everybody knows the Yangtze River has long been troubled by floods, but nobody knows when exactly it became gripped by a new problem: drought. Normally, July and August are the peak months of the flood season. But […]
Read MoreChinese Captivated by U.S. Nuclear Envoy – Hiroko Tabuchi
From AP, via Guardian: Little known in his home country, the boyish-looking U.S. nuclear envoy has become something of a celebrity in China’s capital for his role in talks on North Korea’s atomic weapons program. “He’s so charming and attractive,” said Li Kenna, a desk clerk at the five-star hotel where U.S. Assistant Secretary of […]
Read MoreInternet giants to tackle China’s censorship Ôºç Indrajit Basu
From Asia Times: As China once again moves to tighten regulation of the Internet, a new force is forming in the West to address challenges to free expression and privacy faced by technology and communications companies doing business internationally. Faced with increasing criticism from global human-rights groups for bowing to Internet censorship in many countries […]
Read MoreBooks behind bars РHe Dong on restricted literature － Joel Martinsen
From Danwei blog: The cultural supplement to Beijing’s Mirror evening paper has a regular feature in which contemporary commentators reflect on newspaper articles of the past. In today’s installment, entertainment writer He Dong uses a 1978 People’s Daily article indicting the Gang of Four for flagrant book banning as inspiration to reminisce about his reading […]
Read MoreNorth Korean Leader’s Son Arrives in Beijing – FOXNews
From FOXNews.com: The flamboyant eldest son of North Korea’s reclusive leader arrived in China’s capital Sunday from the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau. Japanese television crews spotted Kim Jong Nam at Capital International Airport. His appearance in Beijing sparked interest among North Korea watchers, coming as the United States and North Korea were discussing Pyongyang’s […]
Read MoreRighting Mao’s Wrongs Ôºç Mark Oneill
From Asia Sentinel: The Chinese Communist Party crushed the intellectuals of the 100 Flowers Campaign half a century ago. Now victims are demanding justice and compensation from a government that remains deaf to their plight Fifty years after Chairman Mao Zedong launched his mass persecution of China’s intelligentsia, the victims, in a different world and […]
Read MoreChina in Alzheimer’s double bind – BBC News
From BBC News (photo: Dr. Xiao treating Alzheimer’s patients, via bbc.co.uk): The country now has a third of all Alzheimer’s patients in the world. And the number of diagnosed cases is rising. China’s economic success means people are living longer, says Professor Xiao Shifu, a director at Shanghai’s leading mental health hospital. “Alzheimer’s prevalence has […]
Read MoreThe ‘Shut up’ Envoy Gets UN Job – Tim Johnson
From Tim Johnson’s blog: The Chinese diplomat who suggested last August that Washington should just “shut up and keep quiet” about China’s defense spending has just gotten a big promotion. The “un-diplomatic” diplomat, Sha Zukang (Ê≤ôÁ•ñÂ∫∑), just won a plum assignment near the top of the United Nations hierarchy. He’ll be under secretary of economic […]
Read MoreAs America looks the other way, China’s rise accelerates – Gideon Rachman
From the Financial Times: But, strangely enough, the big strategic questions about China’s emergence as a great power remain pretty much the same. Will China have a “peaceful rise”, as its officials insist? Or will growing Chinese power and ambition one day bring the country into conflict with the US or Japan? How serious is […]
Read MoreChina’s Filthiest Export – Jennifer L. Turner and Juli S. Kim
Foreign Policy in Focus has a report on the global effects of China’s severe air and water pollution, which is now traveling as far as the west coast of the U.S.: Information on Chinese emissions is sketchy since the government has not publicly disclosed CO2 or mercury emissions data since 2001. The most commonly cited […]
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