From Reuters: Wang Wenhai worked for the Revolutionary Museum in Yan’an, in the central province of Shaanxi, the heart of the Chinese Communist revolution, where he devoted himself to creating thousands of sculptures of the late Chairman Mao, his hero. …Sui Jianguo, professor at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, had invited […]
Read MoreFrom India’s Business Standard Any visit by a Chinese president is important in and of itself, even if it seems to produce little forward movement on key issues. President Hu Jintao’s four-day Indian sojourn has not produced any breakthroughs, leading to understandably tepid media coverage, but the two largest countries in Asia have to engage […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China, seeking to ease its dependence on coal to fuel its booming economy, said on Tuesday it will build the world’s largest solar power station in the poor but sunny northwestern province of Gansu. The 100 megawatt (mw) project would cost approximately 6.03 billion yuan ($766 million) and construction would take five years, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via The Washington Post: China will next week try a blind human rights activist whose previous controversial conviction was overturned, his lawyer said on Wednesday, voicing fears the new trial will not hear claims that testimony was obtained through police torture. Chen Guangcheng, who drew international attention last year by reporting forced late-term […]
Read MoreHuman Rights Watch has posted the transcripts of interviews with two survivors of the shooting at Nangpa La Pass, when Chinese troops fired on Tibetans fleeing to Nepal, killing at least one nun. Read the interviews here. Read more about the incident, via CDT, here.
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine, an article outlining the complexities of the China-India relationship: India is obsessed with China. Mainland goods from refrigerators to clothes to cameras to children’s toys flood Indian markets. China’s pavilion is the most popular by far at the India International Trade Fair, which opened in Delhi last week and attracts hundreds of […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Hu Shuli 胡舒立, editor-in-chief of China’s influential Caijing magazine, was listed on the Wall Street Journal’s list of “Ten women to watch in Asia” on November 20. Hu Shuli is...
Read MoreFrom AP: Chinese animal rights activists welcomed a proposed European Union ban on imports of dog and cat fur, saying Tuesday it would pressure the Beijing government to enact better legal protections for animals, while the government denied torture and cruelty are widespread. The European Union proposed the ban Monday in all 25 member nations, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The number of reported HIV/AIDS cases in China has grown by nearly 30 per cent this year, state media said on Wednesday, warning the virus seemed to be spreading from high-risk groups to the general public. The reported number of cases had risen to 183,733, up from 144,089 at the end of last […]
Read MoreA lone cowgirl in the far western China, via Picture China.
Read MoreFrom Channelnewsasia.com: Police arrested more than a dozen Tibetan activists in separate incidents in New Delhi on Tuesday after they tried to storm venues of meetings between Indian and Chinese leaders, in protests that drew a rebuke from Beijing. In one incident, four flag-draped Tibetan protesters managed to breach heavy security outside the ornate Hyderabad […]
Read MoreThis ghostly cover drew a yellow card from the speech refs. Recently, the Central Publicity Department “yellow carded” Sanlian Lifeweek magazine (‰∏âËÅîÁîüÊ¥ªÂë®Âàä) for going too far with its October 30 cover story on the smashing of the Gang of Four, comrades in the magazine industry report. In the run-up to the sensitive anniversary, the propaganda-meisters […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s poor grew poorer at a time when the country was growing substantially wealthier, an analysis by World Bank economists has found. The real income of the poorest 10 per cent of China’s 1.3bn people fell by 2.4 per cent in the two years to 2003, the analysis showed, a period when […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: The power meal of a rising urban class is found in one lake near Shanghai. Crab is prized in China year round – it’s a dish with “special moment” written all over it in the Chinese family. But in November, when the hairy crabs of the Yangtze delta start developing […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: “We have many challenges,” the editor in chief of the South China Morning Post wrote to his staff in an internal memo that was leaked over the weekend, “but our problems are minor compared with those that many newspapers face.” Challenges, yes – what newspaper nowadays does not have its […]
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