From China Law Prof Blog: Here’s an interesting commentary by Liang Jing (梁京) on the Chen Guangcheng case. Translation below, courtesy of David Kelly. When I read Yuan Weishi’s article in Southern Weekend criticizing...
Read MoreFrom USA Today: At the North Pole, the elves are bustling to fill Santa’s sack with toys for the world’s children. In the real world, Christmas looks like Dongguan: a grey, industrial city in South China, where mile upon mile of factories house mile upon mile of uniformed young women toiling on production lines. Within […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Teipei Times: A journalist serving a 13-year jail term for reporting about a bogus irrigation project has been released five years early to official acclaim for his determination in fighting against corruption (see CDT report on this). Gao Qinrong, previously an investigative journalist for the Xinhua news agency in Shanxi Province, was […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: In a country where media censorship is national policy, Liu Jianqiang has pulled off some remarkable journalistic scoops. When a wealthy socialite struck and killed a farmer with her BMW in northeastern China three years ago — and then got off with a slap on the wrist — it was […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: …At 9:39 am Wednesday, the Beijing Emergency Medical Centre received a call saying that Ma Ji was having a heart attack. When the team arrived at Ma’s home in northern Beijing, the performer was found slumped on the toilet in a critical condition. …He started his career in the 1950s, when xiangsheng […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The mental and physical abuse of minors is widespread and growing in South China’s Guangdong Province, a recent survey suggested. More than half of the children in Guangdong had suffered physical abuse at the hands of their parents and 44 per cent had been insulted mentally by teachers, according to the survey […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: The death toll is down in China’s accident-plagued coal industry, but local officials who collude with bosses of dangerous mines are hurting safety efforts, government officials said in Beijing Thursday. Dozens of officials have been punished for corruption or negligence in fatal accidents in the past year, said Li Yizhong, […]
Read MoreFrom BusinessWeek: While trying to thread a political needle through U.S.-China policy, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson may have ended up pricking himself”and strengthened the hand of China’s critics in Congress. Instead of calming China’s detractors on Capitol Hill, Paulson’s Dec. 19 conclusion that China isn’t manipulating its currency is likely to prompt a new round […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: What does a bribery case involving a hospital director in the Chinese city of Changde have to do with Hollywood actress Demi Moore? Absolutely nothing. But a perplexing mixture of pilfered Web photos and sensational law and order content smash the two together on a recent issue of Legal News Compendium […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Chinese shoemakers on Wednesday said they would sue the European Union over anti-dumping duties imposed on their products. Four Chinese footwear companies will tell Europe’s second-highest court that...
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist Blog: From the unreadable without a proxy BBC we find that Lu Jianhua, a scholar with the Chinese academy of social sciences (CASS) has been sentenced to 20 years in jail. The information has yet to be released widely in the media, though we wouldn’t be surprised if it got less play than […]
Read MoreFrom The Opposite End of China Blog: At the behest of neweurasia, I’m diving today into the unfamiliar waters of wild speculation. What will Xinjiang be like fifteen years from now, in the year 2021? Of course, no one really knows. If my predictions turn out to be correct, chalk it up to luck rather […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Inquirer: Pop Quiz! One question, and it seems simple. Q) Is China Communist? A) Yes, there are more than a billion commies living the Marxist utopian ideal in the East. B) No, they’re unforgiving, shrewd, money-hungry capitalists like the rest of us. Correct answer: B. China’s no more red than Michael […]
Read MoreFrom xinhua via People’s Daily Online: China urgently needs a new rural land ownership mechanism to guarantee farmers’ legal rights and security, according to a UN-China project inked in Beijing on Dec. 20. Jointly launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Chinese government, the four-year project aims to revitalize rural China by […]
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