From San Francisco Chronicle: Change has added a lot of new words to the Mandarin vocabulary, and the most ominous is “guolaosi,” or death from over-working. Although China is ostensibly still a communist country, independent trade unions are banned here and every night 200 million Chinese workers go to bed in overcrowded dormitory rooms after […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via The International Herald Tribune: A Romanian videotape that appears to show Chinese security forces shooting two Tibetan refugees in the Himalayas contradicts Beijing’s claim that the refugees were shot when soldiers acted in self-defense. China on Thursday acknowledged that soldiers had killed one refugee and wounded another in an […]
Read MoreStatue of Kim Jong-il is standing in Pyong yang , via Veji.
Read MoreFrom A Beerist’s monologue blog (in Chinese, at blog.sina.com BLOG: translated by CDT): “Above there is Heaven; on earth there is Hangzhou and Suzhou.” A few days ago, I was on my way to meet a friend in...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A huge flow of refugees, a stronger U.S. presence in the region and economic pressures that could impact the stability of its government — those are the worst fears for China in the event its neighbor, North Korea, collapsed. The conclusion China has come to as it weighs its response to North Korea’s […]
Read MoreFom Xinhua: Chinese police are launching an all-out campaign to prevent crime at the nation’s schools, where 43 deaths have been reported over the past 18 months. On Friday, the ministry announced that it had received 200 reports of serious campus crimes including 103 involving homocide, kidnapping, and rape in 2005 and the first half […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency: Chinese folk singer Song Zuying(ÂÆãÁ•ñËã±) is set to hold a solo concert at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the United States on Thursday night. The concert, “What a Beautiful Jasmine(Â•Ω‰∏ÄÊúµÁæé‰∏ΩÁöÑËåâËéâËä±),” is one of the festivities scheduled for the Chinese Year of Culture in America. “Spice SisterÔºàËæ£Â¶πÂ≠êÔºâ”, […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: A senior economist and bureaucrat in Beijing has penned a blistering condemnation of the Hong Kong government in a local Chinese-language newspaper, denouncing the administration for inserting itself into the free market and relying too heavily on the mainland for economic handouts since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. “Relations between the Hong […]
Read MoreFrom Qihoo Picture: “Sound Of Youth(ÈùíÊò•‰πãÊ≠å)” was made in 1959 by Cui Wei and Chen Huaikai of Beijing Film Studio(Âåó‰∫¨ÁîµÂΩ±Âà∂ÁâáÂéÇ), who put Yang Mo’sÔºàÊù®Ê≤´Ôºâsame-name novel onto the silver screen. The movie could be seen as the gift of 10-year anniversary of People’s Republic. The story is about Lin Daojing, a young college girl from a […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The Wall Street Journal: The U.N. Security Council will vote Saturday after reaching a broad compromise on a resolution that would impose nonmilitary sanctions on North Korea for the nuclear test it announced earlier this week. Both the U.S. and Russian indicated that more tinkering would have to be done Friday before […]
Read More“For the Central Publicity Department, the main focus with regard to the nuclear test is how we report North Korea’s relationship with China,” one Communist Party newspaper editor told Biganzi earlier this week. “That is to say, we really aren’t supposed to at all.” Words of caution that are not at all surprising, but are […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Chinese and Russian firms are planning to spend $10bn (¬£5.4bn) on building power plants in north east China, Beijing media says. The China Daily said that the sites would be fuelled by coal from Siberia. China’s State Grid Corp and Russia’s Unified Energy systems are behind the project, the report said. The […]
Read MoreShanghai is reining in property buying by foreigners, if they want to buy a second one especially. Some may wonder whether this has anything to do with Chen Liangyu’s fall. Maybe not. District transaction centers in Pudong New Area and Jing’an, Xuhui and Baoshan districts have stopped accepting applications from foreigners and Hong Kong, Taiwan […]
Read MoreFrom I am Hutongs blog via Fengniao: Hutong is one of the symbols of Beijing’s traditional culture, and a life style, a history and an art. Blogger I am Hutongs posted a lot of vivid photos to memorialize hutongs.
Read MoreReflections from BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes, who has been called to frequent meetings by officials from the foreign ministry keen to discuss the way he covers China for the BBC: “Why are you so down on China?” is a refrain I have got used to hearing. And not just from the foreign ministry. … […]
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