From The People’s Daily Online: Many words or phrases are not frequently used or have been completely forgotten by Chinese people in the last decade. This is 49 of them. People may have different attitudes towards them. Nevertheless, these words are in people’s memories and they are worth discussing. Neighbor: disappeared in the 1990s For […]
Read MoreThe forecast for the weekly newspaper and periodicals market in China is very upbeat, but I am very pessimistic about the current situation. This, as a matter of fact, is also my view of the Chinese media industry as a whole… Remember Cheng Yizhong (Á®ãÁõä‰∏≠)? The above-quoted statement appears to be the first to be […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via sina.com, translated by CDT: Chen Liangyu (ÈôàËâØÂÆá), now former party secretary of Shanghai, was downed today for his involvement in the pension funds scandal. According to information available out of a recent investigation, Chen helped some businessmen and his aides and their families in lining their pockets in the misuse of social […]
Read MoreLast installment in the typology of corrupt officials from People’s Daily Online via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: “Swindled (“È™ó”Âá∫Êù•ÁöÑ),” like Chen Yaonan (ÈôàËÄÄÂçó), deputy party secretary of Zhenjiang City in Jiangsu Province. An ambitious #2 boss in his city who wanted to be the one who commands, Chen slip into a trap set up […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The most popular potential rival to Hong Kong’s chief executive has formally ruled out challenging the incumbent in an election next year, leaving the territory’s pro-democracy camp without an obvious opposition candidate. Anson Chan, who served as the government’s second highest ranking official from 1993 until her retirement in 2001, formally announced […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: An attempt by China’s Xinhua news agency to tighten controls on foreign rivals has sparked fierce criticism abroad and rumbles of discontent at home – but no trace of such negativism finds its way into the agency’s own reports. While international agencies such as Reuters have covered Beijing’s defence of the new […]
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: The ongoing political crisis in Thailand, which forced Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to temporarily resign in April and has now resulted in a coup by the Thai military, has not been good news for the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Since taking office in 2001, Thaksin has prioritized relations […]
Read MoreA two-month old blog attracted more than 150,000 clicks and over 3,000 comments. Its daily visitors reached as many as 5,000. This is not a blog about sex or private lives. It’s about social problems, economic reforms and bureaucracy, and it’s written by a motorcycle taxi driver who never went to college, and whose business […]
Read MoreChina analyst David Cowhig provided the following to CDT: In a recent blog posting, Zeng Jinyan, AIDS and rights activist and the wife of Hu Jia, discusses the mission of the PRC Public Security Domestic Security Detachment Guo’an ÂõΩÂÜÖÂÆâÂÖ®‰øùÂç´ÊîØÈòü. (See the earlier CDT post China: Cows, pigs and balls. See also the Chinese language Wikipedia […]
Read MoreA calling booth in the Shanghai train station, by monkeyking
Read MoreOn O’Reilly Radar, Stewart Brand summarizes a recent talk by Orville Schell about China: China is the most unresolved nation of consequence in the world,” Orville Schell began. It is defined by its massive contradictions. And by its massiveness— China’s population is estimated to be 1.25 to 1.3 billion; the margin of error in the […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Turned down by Cannes, “Still Life” had entered Venice on tiptoe, billed as the surprise film. Reviewers were mostly dismissive. “Almost zero plot but molto mood,” Variety reported. “It will appeal to the most faithful of the director’s camp followers and no one else.” Indeed Jia, 36, is known mostly […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The leader of NASA arrives in China on Sunday for a tour of space agency sites, making him the most senior American space official to go to China to discuss possible cooperation between the countries’ programs. Michael D. Griffin, the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has repeatedly […]
Read MoreMajor Chinese and western press recently published several reports about SK-II cosmetics ceasing sales in China. Read a recent Chinese news report “Procter & Gamble Co.’s Official Chinese Website Hacked” from Sept. 24th. Earlier, on Sept. 22nd there was a report that “Procter & Gamble Co. Shanghai Branch Smashed for SK-II cosmetics“. See also ESWN’s […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The standard portrait of Confucius is unveiled by the China Confucius Foundation (CCF) in an effort to give him a recognizable identity around the world in Qufu, East China’s Shandong Province September 23, 2006. Born in 551 BC, Confucius was considered one of the most reputed philosophers and thinkers in China. Related Chinese […]
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