Heroine or Criminal? – Shanghaiist

From Shanghaiist blog: The Straits Times today tells us about 27 year old Liu Qian who “has been feted as a modern-day heroine, held up as a role model for women, and won the hearts of thousands across China”. For the past eight years, Liu was the mistress of Yao Chuanrui, a former manager of […]

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China’s Flawed Fight Against Corruption – Wu Zhong

From Asia Times: Ahead of its 17th National Congress next autumn, the power center of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has begun to restructure its anti-graft system to strengthen its direct supervision of the behavior of regional officials in the hope of more effectively curbing rampant corruption. President Hu Jintao’s renewed efforts to clean China’s […]

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Chinese Tomb Raiders Find Home – Weird Asia

From Weird Asia Blog: A vagrant woman and her young son lived in a tomb in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, for nearly three years before police found them and contacted family members in Jiangxi Province. Zeng Liuying, 48, said she couldn’t afford railway tickets to her hometown, didn’t know how to write a letter and didn’t […]

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China to Let 9 Foreign Banks Incorporate, in Step Toward Retail Business – AP

From AP via International Herald Tribune: Nine foreign banks took a key step Sunday toward breaking into the Chinese retail banking industry, receiving permission to become the first international lenders to incorporate in China under World Trade Organization market-opening pledges. The banks’ local units, once incorporated, will be able to take the final step of […]

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China: Nary Xmas? – John Kennedy

From Global Voices Online: A group of PhD students at several of China’s biggest and best universities came together last week to release a letter calling for Chinese to boycott Christmas”a holiday they see as representing waning interest in traditional Chinese culture”and all the rest of non-native cultural trends. Presumably not a very popular stance […]

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Chinese Culture Under Threat from Christmas – Richard Spencer

From Telegraph.co.uk: Their parents lived according to the rhythms of the Chinese countryside. They grew rice and vegetables in season, tended fish ponds, and their holiday was the two-week lunar new year festival. But life has changed for Hong Zhujin, Xu Zhijun, Mao Lanai, workers I met on my instant tour of China’s manufacturing zones, […]

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China’s Parliament Takes up Law to Equalize Taxes on Foreign, Domestic Companies – AP

From AP via International Herald Tribune: Chinese lawmakers on Sunday took up a proposed law to equalize corporate taxes on foreign and domestic businesses, a government news agency reported. Chinese business leaders have pushed for the change, complaining that tax breaks granted to foreign companies in order to attract investment are hurting domestic entrepreneurs. The […]

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China Sacks Qingdao City Communist Party Chief – Reuters

From Reuters via Guardian Unlimited: The Chinese government has sacked a senior Communist Party boss from the booming northern coastal province of Shandong for “serious discipline violation”, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. Du Shicheng was Party chief for Qingdao city, a magnet for South Korean and Japanese investment and the venue for […]

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Abusive Factory in China Makes Bratz, Group Says – AP

From AP via LA Times: MGA Entertainment Inc.’s Bratz dolls are made at a factory in southern China where workers are obliged to toil as many as 94 hours a week, labor rights advocates alleged in a report. The report by U.S.-based China Labor Watch and the National Labor Committee details allegations of harsh working […]

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