CDT’s esteemed Biganzi editor writes for Newsweek International on the opening of China’s most efficient coal plant ever, but he tempers the optimism with an illuminating look at the environmental calamity China faces as a result of its continued dependance on coal to feed the furnace of its chugging economy. From the lead: It isn’t […]
Read MoreTranslated and carried by Raymond Zhou blog: I was once invited to the taping of a TV show and before the cameras started to roll a young man came on stage and asked everyone in the audience to practice applauding. At first, the applause was weak, but repeated efforts turned it into a thunderous ovation. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: New York lawyer Meg Tolan is the mother of three adopted daughters, all of them from China, but if she wanted to adopt another, she couldn’t. Beijing no longer considers her a suitable parent. The restrictions, to be implemented later this year, have led U.S. parents of Chinese children to question whether it […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei TV: Peng Lei is the guitarist of popular new wave punk band New Pants(Êñ∞Ë£§Â≠ê). he also shoots and directs independent feature films, and owns a store that sells retro toys, and scale models of comic and film characters such as Astroboy, the Japanese cartoon character who was one of the first foreign stars […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Bo Yibo, the last of the Eight Immortals, Communist Party leaders who steered China through a politically volatile shift from Maoism to today’s market-oriented economic boom, died Monday. He was 98… As one of the elderly but immensely influential party veterans who hovered above the country’s appointed leadership in the […]
Read MoreFrom Letters From China: Whereas CCTV host urges Starbucks to get out of the Forbidden City, Luqiu Luwei(Èóæ‰∏òÈú≤Ëñá), Phoenix TV reporter, asks in her blog: how did Starbucks enter the Forbidden City? (in translation): It seems to be a big story now. Of course, it is good to see people care about the protection of […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, two stories which have implications for media freedom in China: The Communist Party has further tightened its grip on the mainland’s increasingly bold media by imposing a pre-censorship rule on coverage of politically sensitive topics, according to sources. In an internal document released to state-run media recently, the Publicity […]
Read MoreFrom AP via LA Times: Pregnant women from mainland China who are near their due date will be turned away at Hong Kong borders if they cannot prove they have appointments in the city’s hospitals, officials said Tuesday. The number of births by mainland Chinese women in Hong Kong nearly doubled in 2005 — from […]
Read MoreFrom Shenzhen Fieldnotes: Dinner with beijing friends led, as it inevitably does, to conversation about why beijing and beijing people are the best. This time, text message culture (Áü≠‰ø°ÊñáÂåñ) was our point of departure. According to wan ning and hu lin, all of a sudden people are text messaging their new year’s greetings to each […]
Read MoreA Page One story from the Wall Street Journal (photo from Ynet.com, Dr. Hu treating his patients): Dr. Hu Weimin has attracted a wide following among the poor in this city by providing free advice on how to avoid high blood pressure and dispensing cheap drugs to treat the condition, one of the biggest killers […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China has threatened to crack down on “vulgar reality shows” this year, in a fresh drive to clean up what domestic viewers can watch on their TV screens. But the surge in audiences watching competition-based reality TV suggests that the moral crusade will face opposition not just from viewers but also dissenting […]
Read MoreFrom The Economist: The Dutch called it the Spanish disease; Russians the Polish disease; Turks, the Christian disease and Tahitians, the British disease. But syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease (STD), seems more of a Chinese disease these days. In China the chance of catching it is now more than 28 times greater than it was […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily website: A senior leader of the Communist Party of China, Bo Yibo, died of old age at a Beijing hospital Monday evening. “Bo died of illness at 20:30 on Monday in Beijing,” a statement said. Born in Shanxi Province in 1908, Bo joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the age […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A Chinese journalist has been beaten to death while investigating the country’s notoriously dangerous coal mining industry, his newspaper has said. Lan Chengzhang was set upon by a “group of mining thugs” near a mine in Huiyuan county, Shanxi province, the Beijing-based China Trade News said. More than 5,000 deaths are reported […]
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