From sinosplice blog: Identify the theme that doesn’t belong in a series of books for Chinese children: Cartoon Characters Cute Animals Mysterious Dinosaurs Pretty Flowers Means of Transportation Military Weaponry If you guessed #4, “Pretty Flowers,” you are right! The other five are themes of real coloring/drawing/character practice books in a series by Beijing Children […]
Read MoreFrom The Times of India: A large number of Chinese academics are in the midst of a massive debate over the nation’s symbol Èæô” the dragon Èæô” after an influential professor suggested that it should be dumped. The professor’s comments caused a virtual storm with groups of academics taking up opposing stands on the proposition. […]
Read MoreFrom The American Prospect: After the economist Nicholas Lardy visited China in the mid-1980s, he came away distinctly skeptical. While Chinese leaders were gearing up for a huge export drive, Lardy predicted “a marked slowing in China’s trade expansion in the years ahead.” In particular he questioned Beijing’s reported plan to boost total Chinese trade […]
Read MoreFrom Line56.com: When it comes to the Internet economy, China is the elephant in the room. Sometime this year, according to sohu.com’s Dr. Charles Zhang, Chinese Internet users surpassed U.S. Internet users in number. We have roughly 154 million Internet users and China could have as many as 200 million.China is nearly four times larger […]
Read MoreFrom Virtual China: It’s a great collection. Most of the photos speak for themselves, but a few riff on Chinese political or religious images, or college student experiences such as mandatory military camp…
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Xiao Tian, a gay man, sparked an uproar in the gay community in the capital after he accused the prestigious Tsinghua University of discriminating against gays, xmnext.com reported on December 6. Xiao, in his 20s, wearing a signboard reading “I am gay and I hope to find my spouse on campus” was […]
Read MoreFrom Virtual China: QQÂè∑‰∏∫‰ªÄ‰πàÂĺÈí±Ôºü“Why are QQ numbers worth money?” is the title of a December 4 article in the Fan Group’s Computer Fans„ÄäÁîµËÑëÁà±Â•ΩËÄÖ„Äã . What kinds of QQ numbers are considered the best? How is the value of numbers calculated? The anonymous author sheds some light on these and other questions, with the caveat that […]
Read MoreProtester making a last stand on a soon to be demolished home in Shanghai, by monkeyking
Read MoreFrom The Independent: Chinese officials have secretly executed a demonstrator who took part in a massive protest in 2004 against a hydro-electric dam in the south-western province of Sichuan, lawyers and family members said yesterday. In a grim postscript to the summer of rural unrest that overtook China two years ago, Chen Tao was executed […]
Read MoreProtester making a last stand on a soon to be demolished home in Shanghai, by monkeyking
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Wearing an NBA sweatshirt and a Mickey Mouse cap, 13-year-old Mingbayi Abdubaki plays beside the mountainous highway to Pakistan with a battery-powered earth digger he built himself from scrap. The Chinese teenager hopes to design real machines when he grows up, but if you believe his headmaster, he cannot understand a word of […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post, an update on the case of the Uighur men being detained at Guantanamo Bay: Attorneys for a group of Chinese Muslims held for nearly five years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed suit yesterday, asking that the men be released immediately and alleging that they have been […]
Read MoreFrom China in Transition blog: More than 10,000 people in Urumqi, Xinjiang, found their home freezing after the heat was stopped on Saturday. A coal-burning furnace providing heat for the area stopped working after heat company workers fed it with coals of poor quality. The company purchased these bad coals from some small coal mines, […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: A year after Dongzhou shooting last winter, 300-400 local villager walked out to an altar to remember the event in front of portraits of three killed victims during the incident. The mourning was uninterrupted, Radio Free Asia learned from the villagers. But the atmosphere was still […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: High-level criminal charges on both sides of the Taiwan Strait illustrate how the two countries manage corruption. As recent corruption scandals have ensnared top politicians on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the differences between democratically ruled Taiwan’s approach to corruption and mainland China’s have been on graphic display in […]
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