From Danwei blog: At the two-day Fourth Annual Forum on Chinese Cultural Industries held at Peking University earlier this week GAPP vice-director Liu Binjie spoke about the race toward the bottom in contemporary culture. According to the Beijing Daily Messenger: “Recently, the curtain has been pulled back on sex in the arts world, cultural products […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Chinese authorities have forcibly shut a school in Shanghai for 2,000 children of poor migrants, sparking clashes with parents and teachers, it is reported. About 300 government officials and police interrupted classes and ordered pupils onto buses at Jianying Hope School in the Putuo district on Friday. The fracas occurred on Monday […]
Read MoreFrom China Law Blog: Yesterday, I did a post, entitled, “Taking On China Patent Infringment At Home,” extolling the success of a U.S. company that sued a Chinese company in U.S. Federal Court for patent infringement. Today, I came across a good article from law.com [subscription required] on a U.S. company, 3M, that successfully sued […]
Read MoreFrom The China Blog, Time: If China’s boom has a group of unrecognized heroes it must surely be the 120 million or so migrant workers whose labor is the force that keeps the huge dynamo turning. Migrants do all the grunt work that no one else wants to take on, toiling in mines, constructions sites […]
Read MoreFrom Eurasia Daily Monitor: On December 23 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev wrapped up his first three-day visit to Beijing since his reelection in December 2005. The trip, characterized as “a breakthrough” in bilateral relations by the official mouthpiece Kazakhstanskaya pravda, was marked by series of landmark agreements aimed at boosting economic and trade ties and […]
Read MoreWow, some Shanghai-patriot threw up a bold proposal, or hint: making China’s largest city a Hong Kong-like SAR. What a courage, especially after Chen Liangyu’s downfall. A post from Josie Liu’s blog (Pictured – Prof. Zhang Jun): In a recent interview with Hong Kong media, an economics professor from Shanghai proposed the city to become […]
Read MoreAt a big annual conference on watchdog journalism late last month in Beijing, the bill was stacked with reporters and editorialists behind some of the more daunting stories of 2006. The show-stopper, though, was an ex-journalist whose case dated back to 1998: Gao Qinrong. The event was off-the-record, and many of the journalists, while speaking […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Yahoo’s China portal will be reorganized as a business-oriented search engine, the company’s head announced Monday, saying it had to change or fail amid intense competition from domestic rivals. Jack Ma, CEO of e-commerce company Alibaba Group, which runs Yahoo’s China operations, said specialization would help ward off competition from search leader Baidu […]
Read MoreFrom newkerala.com: With jobs hard to get in the highly competitive Chinese market, graduates are now stalking the corridors of holy temples. Famen Temple, one of the four most famous Buddhist Temples in ancient China, has employed four graduate students and five with bachelors degrees. They were selected at a job market at Northwest Agriculture […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China accused Taiwan’s president of trying to damage Sino-U.S. ties with a stopover in California on the way to Central America on Monday and criticized Washington for giving the brief visit permission. President Chen Shui-bian leaves for Nicaragua on Monday to attend the inauguration of president-elect Daniel Ortega, stopping en route in San […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: An attack on the traditional healing arts has inflamed adherents and sparked a debate about Western healthcare. The fur is flying, not to mention the acupuncture needles, the firewort and the $15,000-a-pound bull gallstones. China’s ancient healing arts, as integral to national identity as the Great Wall or steamed dumplings, have become […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: All his life, Qin Zhongfei has been an ardent reader, a lover of literature and an amateur poet. But the drama he lived in this little mountain town, Qin said, has taught him that putting his thoughts into verse can be dangerous in China. …Qin, 31, spent a month in jail […]
Read MoreTwo old friends visit in Shanghai, by Natalie Behring.
Read MoreTwo old friends visit in Shanghai, by Natalie Behring.
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu Wang, translated by CDT (Pictured – one of the IOU bills signed by former chief Yang Jiandong): Over nine years, central bankers at Henan‘s Huixian City (ËæâÂéøÂ∏Ç), a county-level town, have been eating big meals at a mom-and-pop hotel but hasn’t paid a penny. The total amount of bills over all these […]
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