From Asia Times: Used to widespread Western criticism on China’s human-rights record, lack of religious freedom, and Han chauvinism, and the inaccurate view that China’s ruling party is a monolithic entity obsessed exclusively with maintaining an unfair status quo, some fail to acknowledge the extent of China’s social pluralism and political opening-up. In fact, the […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Express: The latest recruitment brochure from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which beckons the uninitiated to “be a part of a mission that’s larger than all of us”, opens to reveal an image of the red-roofed entrance to Beijing’s Forbidden City. From an oversized portrait on the ancient wall, chairman Mao Zedong […]
Read MoreFrom Kyodo News, via Japan Times Online: Public sentiment toward China has improved slightly, helped in part by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s trip to Beijing in October, but the attitude toward South Korea has continued to worsen, according to a government poll released Saturday. In the survey, 34.3 percent of Japanese feel positive toward China, […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Eight years after banning door-to-door sales for wreaking social turmoil, China is reopening its doors to the Avon lady and her rivals from Amway and Mary Kay. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese ” women and men ” are beginning to hit the streets and go online to plug the latest […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online: Riots in China are threatening the Communist Party’s ability to rule, according to a policy document that seeks answers to the country’s social unrest. It is the first time that a partywide paper has asked how best to deal with rising public discontent and underscores the seriousness of the problem. Demonstrations have […]
Read MoreA group of children play in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, via Xitek.com.
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: For people who saw the event on television, the scene was a chilling flashback from 30 years ago: Social outcasts and supposed criminals, in this case prostitutes and a few pimps, were paraded in front of a jeering crowd, their names revealed, and then taken to jail without trial. The act […]
Read MoreChina is home to the world’s deadliest coal mines. The following youtube video was posted on many Chinese sites, but it has now been removed. All photos and footage are from the official television and news agencies, but the author of this remix video is not identified. Update: Starting from early morning December 10, this […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s population is so large and its economy growing so quickly that the Chinese are set to take over second place in the league table of the world’s wealthy people in the next decade. Research published this week by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-Wider) […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Chinese officials confirmed that they have re-arrested a Shanghai tycoon first jailed in 2003, making him the latest prominent figure in China’s commercial capital to fall amid a corruption probe involving the city’s pension system. Zhou Zhengyi, once one of China’s wealthiest people, was arrested in November “to investigate some […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China, which jails more journalists than any other nation, is challenging the view that information on the Internet is impossible to control, and the implications for press freedom could be far-reaching, a New York-based rights group said. At least 31 journalists are behind bars in China, making it the world’s leading jailer of […]
Read MoreTerraced field in Guilin, Guangxi province.
Read MoreFrom ChinaDialogue.net: “If a company can change its attitude towards the environment, it will see wider markets and increased competitiveness, not increased costs – something too few Chinese businesspeople have realised.” China’s attitude to corporate environmental management has developed in three stages. From the foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949 to the start of […]
Read MoreFrom China in transition blog: A scholar’s proposal of abandoning long, or Chinese dragon, as the symbol image of China triggered a hot public debate about this thousands-of-years-old emblem, particularly the English translation of its name. Early this month, Prof. Wu Youfu, a top administrator of Shanghai International Studies University, said in a local newspaper […]
Read MoreFrom Sinosplice blog: Last Monday I had the pleasure of meeting Wen Ling (Ê∏©Âáå) of Ziboy.com in the flesh. Although I interviewed him once upon a time, we hadn’t communicated much since then. I was happy, then, to get an e-mail from him out of the blue saying he was going to be in town […]
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