From Virtual China Blog: Looks like the big news is that Sohu is no longer in the top 3 portals in China, but has been knocked out by Tencent. 55% of Chinese Internet users used Sina last year; 51% hit Netease; 48% used Tencent, according to the Internet Guide 2007 China Internet Survey Report (in […]
Read MoreFrom Time: The railroad station in the Angolan town of Dondo hasn’t seen a train in years. Its windows are boarded up, its pale pink facade crumbling away; the local coffee trade that Portuguese colonialists founded long ago is a distant memory, victim of a civil war that lasted for 27 years. Dondo’s fortunes, however, […]
Read MoreFrom Henan Business News, Summarized with comments by Xiangfeng Yang, via Chinaelections.org: In an unusually high profile manner, seven “prominent” Henan-based (“prominent” in the sense that they are not really nationally known) economists announced that they will set up a “New Academic Club” (xin xueshu julebu) intended to have an impact on policy making not […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Human rights conditions in China deteriorated significantly in 2006, with about 100 activists, lawyers, writers and academics subjected to police custody, house arrest, incommunicado confinement, pressure in their jobs and surveillance by plainclothes security forces, a new report by Human Rights Watch said. Several widely publicized cases involving journalists and rights […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China will be home to 300 million more men than women by 2020, state media said on Thursday, warning the gender imbalance, along with an aging population and rapid urbanization, could be destabilizing. China has about 119 boys born for every 100 girls, an imbalance that has grown since it introduced a one-child […]
Read MoreAn old lady hawking in a village market in Yunnan province, via fengniao.com
Read MoreUnlike Westerners who value family more than most things (e.g. excuses most executives give for resignations), wealthy Chinese think family time is seventh most important thing. From AP via China Daily: China’s newly wealthy rank travel as their top leisure activity, while spending time with their families places a distant seventh, according to survey results […]
Read MoreMs. Fay King Chung is far less famous among Chinese than US Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, but her family’s story is extraordinary. And during her second trip back to China recently, she was asked by about half women in her ancestral village near Guangzhou: “Have you seen my husbands?” These men all fled to […]
Read MoreAnother interesting trend to watch out in an aging and divorcing society here: young little-emperor couples increasingly untying the knot. From Beijing Review “Currently, more than half the number of people who go to marriage counselors are those in their twenties — the 1980s’ one-child generation — as compared with last year, when 90 percent […]
Read MoreEthical Corporation joins the China environment chatter with a new series on the country’s energy problems, the first of which takes a long look at that hulking black devil: coal. The article’s author, Tom Miller, argues coal isn’t going anywhere despite its contributions to climate change, but there may be hope for using it in […]
Read MoreThe opinion pages of Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily live by a credo that one of its editors has phrased thus: “Almost anything can be written. It just depends on how you write it.” That may or may not explain the sharp turn Southern Metropolis takes with the case of Xie Zhenhua’s political resurrection this week. […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: When I started my history of Chinese literature in 10 volumes, which might be finished within the next two years, a good friend and one of the best interpreters of the Chinese language once wanted to stop me from doing this. I should not waste my time, he said. Years later, one […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: A new local regulation combating official corruption and abuse of duty in Henan’s capital city of Zhengzhou makes specific mention of watchdog journalism, or “supervision by public opinion” (ËàÜËÆ∫ÁõëÁù£), as a key form of monitoring. An article in today’s official People’s Daily notes with a hint of praise that the legislation […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: At an icy service station, close to midnight, you get a good idea of what goes on in Beijing when everyone else is at home in bed. A row of trucks is parked by the side of the road. On a clear night, they would be taking food, chemicals and supplies into […]
Read MoreKent Ewing is a teacher and writer at Hong Kong International School. He wrote the following essay in the Asia Times: A stubborn group of fish farmers in eastern China’s Zhejiang province has struck a blow for both the environment and rule of law in the country, leaving analysts to speculate on the promising long-term […]
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