From Positive Solutions blog, the author is a British blogger currently living in China: It’s easy to get negative when blogging. You’ve got wide open spaces to fill. The fact that you’re blogging suggests you don’t have many people to talk to. And generally, it’s much easier to talk about something bad than something good. […]
Read MoreFrom Three Gorges Probe: A 20-year-old who took part in angry local protests against the Pubugou dam in Sichuan province two years ago was executed last week, with neither his family nor his lawyer notified beforehand. Chen Yongzhong, the father of the executed prisoner, learned of his son’s fate only when police instructed him to […]
Read MoreFrom AP via CBS: Several Chinese suppliers of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fail to pay legally required wages or provide health insurance and allow poor working conditions, a Hong Kong-based labor group says. A Wal-Mart spokesman said Friday it was looking into the claims in a report issued this week by China Labor Watch. Managers at […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Spain had a risk-taking queen. Britain’s nimble navy secured vital commodities overseas. The United States regulated markets and fought for national unity. Those are among the reasons that nine nations rose to become great powers, according to an elite team of Chinese historians. They briefed the ruling Politburo on the […]
Read MoreFrom Rose Garden Èóæ‰∏òÈú≤ËñáÁöÑBLOG, translated by ESWN: I have been watching the development of blogs on mainland China. After all, I am one of them because my blog is hosted on a server located in mainland China. During this period, I have communicated with certain experts in the field, certain people in the industry as […]
Read MoreA little boy eats sunflower seeds under his mother’s cart in Shanghai, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreFrom Archinect.com, an interview with artist Ai Weiwei: Ai Weiwei (Beijing) is an artist, curator, and architectural designer who has been working in China and the United States since the late 1970’s. An original member of “Stars,” a group of artists working in Beijing in the late 1970’s during the first years of reform, Ai […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times, a look at another implication of China’s recent involvement in Africa: The International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday that China’s emergence as an alternative lender was creating a new wave of hidden debt in Africa as it backed its companies’ expansion overseas with increasingly aggressive lending. Adnan Mazarei, a director at […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: China’s Communist Party leaders have quietly filled top anti-corruption spots in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin this week in a bid to stem embarrassing scandals linked to public pension funds and the construction industry. The move is also aimed at sending a signal to ordinary Chinese and party members that the administration of […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The Wall Street Journal: China has installed a new supervisor for construction projects for the 2008 Beijing Olympics as part of efforts to prevent corruption, following the dismissal of a vice mayor in charge of Games construction, an official said Thursday. Xu Bo, a 41-year-old engineer in the Ministry of Construction, was […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China has closed the door on new foreign investment in television and film production companies, telling international media companies to work instead through individual projects with local partners. Zhu Hong of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (Sarft), made clear in an interview with the Financial Times, that Beijing had […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: Cultural heritage lessons help the Chinese join the world economic scene without completely absorbing Western cultural values. On a recent Friday afternoon in this southern Chinese province, the fourth-graders at Bowen International School were sitting up straight, their arms neatly crossed in front of them, belting out 13th-century Chinese poems […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via theage.com: China had 19.87 million bloggers at the beginning of November – a 24 percent increase over the past 12 months. While more than 15 per cent update their blogs at least once a week, only 4.6 per cent do it daily, Baidu found. Blogs devoted to medicine and education are particularly […]
Read MoreFrom TIME.com: Zhang Haoming looks like a million dollars. Or, more precisely, half a million, the amount he spent on a recent Saturday afternoon as he strolled around Beijing’s funky 798 district, a series of crumbling redbrick factories that house the Chinese capital’s largest concentration of art galleries. Appearing at an opening for the painter […]
Read MoreFrom Brycejoystick on Youtube.com: Thousand Hands Guanyin Performance by a Chinese Deaf Group:
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