Latest on Zhao Yan case, from the New York Times: A Chinese researcher for The New York Times may appear in court as early as next week to appeal his conviction on a fraud charge, but his legal team is worried that it will be unable to call witnesses, submit evidence or provide him with […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: The concrete shells of this city’s rising skyscrapers hold more than the promise of being tomorrow’s homes and offices — they’re already the abode of hundreds of thousands of China’s migrant construction workers. Sun Yi Lin, 38, a construction worker from China’s central Henan Province(Ê≤≥ÂçóÔºâ, said he has been living in […]
Read MoreLiu Hongwei, Assistant Minister of Finance and former head of Bureau of Finance of Shanghai, is under the investigation of the Central Committee of Discipline Inspection, Taiwan newspaper China Times said. Liu is not only a good accountant, but is also a good dancer. She used to be the accountant and dancing partner of former […]
Read MoreA promotional piece by UC Berkeley’s campus newsletter about the Berkeley China Initiative via its helmsman Sociology Professor Tom Gold: When a new adaptation of the 400-year-old opera The Peony Pavilion arrived at Zellerbach Hall last month, critics proclaimed it an artistic triumph. But it was more than that. The production’s U.S. premiere marked a […]
Read MoreOn CNet News, Robert Holleyman, president and CEO of the Business Software Alliance, writes about a recent survey undertaken in China by his company: While China’s economy has grown largely on the strength of its manufacturing base, the country increasingly aspires to be a leader in higher-value fields. Those aspirations have led many around the […]
Read MoreAsia Times reports on the consequences of China’s aggressive investment in some of the world’s most unsavory regimes: Where Western companies fear to tread because of small profit margins or environmental or political concerns, the Chinese have plunged in. China’s state-owned companies have the ability to put short-term profit aside and focus on the government’s […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: The Cambodian capital is becoming China’s Casablanca. While China’s giant state corporations have recently dropped billions of dollars in oilfields and mines across Africa and South America, low-profile, family-run Chinese firms have come to dominate approved investment in Cambodia. China topped Cambodia’s investment charts in 2005 with projects worth US$448 million and […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: With 70 million members, China’s ruling Communist Party is bigger than most nations. Yet when its Central Committee meets on Sunday a handful of leaders will spell out the country’s political agenda in tightly guarded secrecy. The plenum of some 350 senior officials will mark a big step in party General Secretary Hu […]
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Read MoreFrom Newsweek: ……Shen DingliÔºàÊ≤à‰∏ÅÁ´ãÔºâ, a political scientist at Shanghai’s Fudan University(‰∏äʵ∑§çÊó¶Â§ßÂ≠¶ÔºâChina’s best known arms-control experts, writes that, for Pyongyang, “the advantages of conducting a nuclear test outweigh the disadvantages; hence it will proceed with a nuclear test.” His analysis, posted online at the Nautilus Institute, a Berkeley, Calif., geopolitical think tank (www.nautilus.org), asserts that North […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Like many of the oracular pronouncements of China’s Communist Party, the arrest last week of Shanghai Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member”over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai’s pension accounts to fund investments in the city’s booming real estate”was […]
Read MoreFrom VOA: Listen to O’Sullivan report Download file A classic love story from China has been captivating California audiences. The U.S. production of the opera “The Peony Pavilion” is a collaboration between a Taiwanese literary scholar and performers from Jiangsu Province, China. The Peony Pavilion is probably the most famous play written for the Kunju […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: For many Chinese, an ancestor is someone to honor, but also someone whose needs must be maintained. Families burn offerings of fake money or paper models of luxury cars in case an ancestor might need pocket change or a stylish ride in the netherworld. But here in the parched canyons […]
Read MoreFrom McClatchy Newspapers’ Tim Johnson’s blog: The Chinese media love to highlight stories that illustrate how violent U.S. society is. Latest case in point: The Amish school shootings in Pennsylvania are all over the newspapers here. But get this: There was a school shooting in China, and it’s nowhere to be seen in the press. […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg News: Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei, better known as I.M. Pei, has brought his love of geometric design back to his family’s hometown in China with the opening this week of the new Suzhou Museum. The angular white and gray building is the latest — and some say the last — major design […]
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