On the Guardian website, John Gittings reviews The Writing on the Wall by Will Hutton: Will Hutton’s new book on China – The Writing on the Wall – has been welcomed for taking a fresh and critical look at a country which attracts too much hyperbole. It is one of a new genre of China […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China will consolidate coal mines and boost output of good quality coal while controlling overall production, the country’s planning agency says in a five-year blueprint for the industry. Total production will be capped at 2.6 billion tons annually by 2010, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a report posted on its […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: At a temperature of -10C (14F), in the grey-blue dawn, two schoolchildren have a thankless job to complete.They are meant to sweep away the soot, dirt and grime from the school gate. But this village is surrounded by coal mines and power stations, so it is impossible to get anything clean. Inside, […]
Read MoreFrom Useless Tree Blog: A recent news story reminds us of the essential Legalism – of the Han Fei Tzu lineage – that lies at the heart of the PRC government. But it also shows us how China is no longer a Legalist society. (For those of you familiar with the book banning issue, scroll […]
Read MoreFrom contemporary Chinese literature-critic poet Ye Kuangzheng (Âè∂Âå°Êîø)’s blog: A list, probably incomplete, of the wealthiest Chinese officials and entrepreneurs to be busted for crimes from 1990-2004. They are ranked in order of their estimated net worth (in RMB) at the time they met their demise. Translated by CDT: 1. Mr. Lai Changxing and family […]
Read MoreChina’s stock market surges to a new high on Monday
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: ACCORDING to a State Department report released this week, American citizens adopted 6,493 children from China in 2006, a decline of 18 percent from the previous year’s total of 7,906. And yet, just over a month ago, this newspaper reported that China had prepared strict new criteria for foreign adoption […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via China Daily: The United States and China host nearly two-thirds of spam, viruses and other computer security threats delivered around the world in 2006. Computer security firm Sophos said 34.2 percent of the so-called malware last year originated from the United States, with 31 percent from China. Russia was third, accounting for […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: More than 150 professionals exchanged blows — and phone numbers — during a mass weekend pillow fight in a downtown bar in China’s financial capital Shanghai… The crowd, mostly made up of professionals in their 20s and 30s, held no punches as they walloped each other during the 10-minute fight finale. In the […]
Read MoreBiganzi’s Jonathan Ansfield writes: Here’s a bright from the sensationalist realm of Internet news editing with a tenuous connection to the 17th Party Congress: On Monday, the semi-official China News Service ran what looked to be just another fluff piece about a cross-Strait golf friendly in the southern region of Guangxi. The tournament pit a […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: The appeal of blogs in a country where the traditional media are strictly censored by the government which uses them to propagate approved information and opinions, lies in both the relative freedom they enjoy, and in their interactivity. Even for those not especially interested in politics, “blogs tell me about […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: Mainland Affairs Council Vice Chairman Johnnason Liu (ÂäâÂæ∑Âã≥) on Friday confirmed that Beijing has partially lifted the block on Taiwanese media Web sites in some regions in China. This is a long overdue but highly welcome move, despite the restrictions that remain in place. It is no secret that many Web sites […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the International Herald Tribune: The top Chinese securities regulator warned Monday that the country’s stock markets lacked long- term stability and required significant reforms, despite a sustained rally over the past year that has lifted valuations on both the country’s bourses to unprecedented levels. Chinese stocks surged to another record high Monday, […]
Read MoreIn Nieman Reports, Phoenix TV editor Luwei (Rose) Luqiu writes about her experience of writing a blog on Sina.com: In China, the Internet enjoys relatively greater freedom than other media. Even so, three articles I posted on my blog vanished without notice. The Sina editor told me the government’s Internet monitors took them away. This […]
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