From fengniao: Just ran across this photo which captures two couples in the same frame. The two wives are holding the husbands’ arms, as in China a husband is a wife’s hero, who supports the family and protects the wife. You can tell the sharp contrast between two, or three, generations from these two couples. […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The third richest man in China has bought an $800m stake in resources group Anglo American held by the Oppenheimer dynasty, a landmark deal in China’s aggressive acquisition of African resources. Larry Yung‘s acquisition comes two weeks after London and Johannesburg-listed Anglo appointed a new chief executive, American Cynthia Carroll – the […]
Read MoreFrom Houston Chronical: Cai Aimin says he was busily handing out homemade leaflets on the streets, campaigning for a seat in his city’s legislature, when police officers swooped in and dragged him into an unmarked car. The platform outlined in his handbills called for exposing corrupt officials and protecting citizens from seizures of their property. […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: The last time U.S. Democrats dominated Congress, a dozen years ago, China was still recovering from the traumatic 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Although the economy was growing at an impressive rate, China was still a net exporter of oil, and Beijing authorities were diplomatic introverts on the international stage. […]
Read MoreA man walks past a slogan advertising “Mao Zedong thought,” in Chuandixia. Photo by Natalie Behring.
Read MoreThe latest bad news for residents of the capital comes from Shanghai Daily via China Environmental News Digest: POLLUTION is threatening Beijing’s future source of drinking water as factory discharges and untreated sewage seep into a reservoir planned for the capital’s use by 2010, water experts said. The reservoir, in Danjiangkou City in Hubei Province, […]
Read MoreFrom Bangkok Post: Premier Wen Jiabao has a problem, albeit a rather unique one. Under his watch, China’s economy has experienced low inflation, steady liberalisation, and has grown in leaps and bounds. As it turns out, that last point is precisely the problem; China is indeed growing too fast. Just recently, China’s National Bureau of […]
Read MoreFrom Project Syndicate: Ever since he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the Peoples’ Republic of China four years ago, Hu Jintao has remained infuriatingly wooden-faced and opaque. Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop. Hu’s unbridled glorification of “Mao Zedong Thought,” coupled with […]
Read MoreFrom The EconomistÔºö A big Western company moves into China, but not for the usual reasons When large Western firms set up shop in China, it is generally because they plan to take advantage of low-cost manufacturing of goods that contain the minimum possible amount of intellectual property that might be stolen. But that is […]
Read MoreVisitors from other provinces arrive at the Shanghai train station, by monkeyking
Read MoreVisitors from other provinces arrive at the Shanghai train station, by monkeyking
Read MoreFrom Financial Times, via MSN.com China’s government on Thursday publicly kept its cool on the Democratic party’s victory in US Congressional elections, but Beijing policymakers are unlikely to be pleased to see Nancy Pelosi become House speaker. Asked about implications of the imminent ascent of a congresswoman who once demonstrated for democracy in Tiananmen Square, […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A few weeks ago, some young Chinese women wearing identical red uniforms were walking across the countryside near Beijing. It was a fine afternoon but a bitter north wind whipped across from the mountains in the distance and they looked cold as they paused every few yards to listen to a man […]
Read MoreThe Hoover Institution announces that issue No.19 of the China Leadership Monitor is available on-line at here. Articles in this issue includes: Military Affairs–James Mulvenon So Crooked They Have To Screw Their Pants On: New Trends in Chinese Military Corruption Corruption is the most dangerous cancer in the Chinese party-state today, and PRC media are […]
Read MoreFirst, a little belated comic relief to mark China Journalists’ Day (Nov. 8). On the BBS Journalists’ Home, one blogging hack had some fun with ten old propaganda affiches, inventing new captions. “Don’t step on the high-tension wire!” reads the caption appended to the one pictured at right. “Ten Lessons on Journalists’ Day,” the post […]
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