From Times Online: Millions of Chinese football fans turning on their computers this morning will discover that the welcoming face of Chelsea has a rather glum look. Ashley Cole was selected to send a greeting to fans on the club’s new Chinese language website, but his stern countenance was in stark contrast to the wide […]
Read MoreGone, in some places, are the feudal-aged traditional Chinese how-dare-students-get-married conservatism. Step by step, advances are coming, such as that a college girl now is “officially” allowed to have a maternity leave in China. (Pictured: junior college girl during a record-setting wedding with her husband in Tianjin in 2004) From China Daily (watch out the […]
Read MoreAuthored by Willy Wo-lap Lam, reviewed by RFA Executive Editor Dan Southerland: In late 2003, China’s new president Hu Jintao made a speech celebrating the late Mao Zedong. He said not a word about Mao’s disastrous mistakes. According to author Willy Lam, this was a wake-up call for many Chinese intellectuals, who until then had […]
Read MoreKQED’s Forum just interviewed Jonathan Lewis, writer and director of a new documentary China From the Inside. The interview should be posted online here soon. The web site for the film is here, including discussion, an interactive map, and a section for educators. The documentary will be broadcast on PBS this week and next. Xiao […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices: First blind abortion rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng was charged in August last year for destruction of property and instigating a riot and sentenced to four years in prison, and land rights lawyer Guo Feixiong was arrested in September charged with running an illegal printing press out of his home, terms of sentence […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Chinese police have killed 18 people in a raid on an alleged militant training camp in the western autonomous region of Xinjiang, officials say. One policeman was killed and another injured in the raid, which took place on Friday, a police spokesman said. China is waging a campaign against what it calls […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a widely-discussed essay by Yu Keping, deputy director of the Central Translation Bureau and director of Center for Chinese Government Innovations at Beijing University: Democracy is a good thing, and this is not just for specific persons or certain officials; this is for the entire nation and its broad masses of people. […]
Read MoreFrom The China Blog: Avian influenza has returned to Hong Kong, but hardly anyone here seems panicked. In late 2005 and early 2006, when the disease killed 13 people on the mainland and more than a dozen infected birds were found in Hong Kong, people followed the news with dread. Now it barely inspires a […]
Read MoreWith the idea in mind that, “if you take your eyes off China for even a few days, a lot can change,” Time Magazine has launched a “China Blog,” with contributions from their China-based reporters: Simon Elegant, Bill Powell, Austin Ramzy, and Susan Jakes. Read it here.
Read MoreFrom China This Week blog: A 67-meter-high building near the West Lake in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province falls down after the demolition blast went off on January 6, 2006. The 22-storey building, also the highest building near the West Lake, was torn down successfully Saturday, causing no casualty. It served as the […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: Starting on Jan. 6, hundreds of transportation workers with the Qingyang (Â∫ÜÈò≥) Transportation Corp. of Gansu province have resorted to a sit-in in front of the city government to protest over a presumed sell-out plan by city officials to sever 1,400 workers’ employment and benefits, so […]
Read MoreA man and his daughter sit in their doorway on a market street in Yantai. Photo by china.sixty4.
Read MoreFrom Chinanews via Xinhua News Agency: Many foreigners complain that they are often puzzled and even startled by the menu when they dine in Chinese restaurants, saying the awful translations of the names of the dishes often give them no small culture shock. The names of many Chinese dishes are translated literally into English, though […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT (pictured is Yao Lifa, former Qianjiang assembly member in Hubei province): Over 20,400 township level officials and 273 county or chu level (Âéø§ÑÁ∫ß) ones were punished by the Communist party’s discipline authorities last year, according to He Yong (‰ΩïÂãá), deputy secretary of the central discipline committee […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei TV: Nan Luoguxiang is one of the oldest hutongs in Beijing and has been a residential neighborhood for hundreds of years. In the last few years, bars, caf√©s and boutique stores have flourished in the alley way, drawing tourists and Beijing residents in search of low key night life and a taste of […]
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