A new book, Mao’s Last Revolution, by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, is reviewed by Michael Kenney in the Boston Globe: There is a play on words popular among Beijing intellectuals that transposes the characters for “cultural revolution” — “wenhua da geming” — to create a satiric expression, “da ge wenhua ming,” which translates loosely […]
Read MoreTry to log onto Yulun Jiandu’s two sites and you will get a “no entry” sign or a blue sky photo with the left column spelling out sections like “dating,” “Las Vegas” and “Hawaii.” Seems like Li Xinde’s persistent efforts to fight rounds of censorship or shut-down of his sites are running against the “Great […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: Chinese police have detained dissident writer Zhang Jianhong on allegations of “inciting subversion” through online political essays, a U.S.-based group advocating media rights said on Thursday. Police raided Zhang’s home in eastern China’s Zhejiang province on September 6, detained him and confiscated his computer, the Committee to Protect […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the Tibetan region of Karze in China’s southwestern Sichuan province have arrested a 22-year-old monk as part of a broader crackdown on anti-Chinese sentiment, making him the eighth Buddhist monk arrested or detained there this year, Tibetan sources said. Lobsang Palden, a monk at Karze monastery, was detained Aug. […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The American Chamber of Commerce in China has denounced as a “step backwards” rules issued by Xinhua, Beijing’s state news agency, banning foreign rivals from dealing directly with local clients and requiring them to strictly censor their products. The chamber’s condemnation of the rules, which have been widely seen abroad as a […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: The second phase of raising the water level of the Three Gorges Reservoir began at 10:00 p.m. Wednesday. One of the 13 power-producing generators was shut down, reducing electricity generation to 5.65 million kw, down from the normal 6.86 million kw, according to Li Yong’an, general manager of the China Yangtze River Three […]
Read MoreUtne.com’s Webwatch takes on the rhetorical question: China has long been recognized as a nation of bicyclists, but as its economy booms and the government paves the world’s largest interstate-highway system, pedaling two-wheelers are being pushed aside to make room for cars. As Bill Donahue reports for Sierra, the Chinese have been reaping the benefits […]
Read MoreFirst-year students get instruction from PLA soliders at an institute in Shandong, photo by china.sixty4
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China, the world’s most populous country, on Wednesday piloted its new birth rate forecasts in Shanghai. The system was launched in Pudong New District(ʵ¶‰∏úÊñ∞Âå∫Ôºâ to inform residents that the area faces a baby boom with a peak expected in 2012. The number of births in the district will soar from the current 15,000 […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo, was bitten by the bear and retaliated by chomping down on the animal’s back, state media said Wednesday. Zhang Xinyan, from the central province of Henan, drank four jugs of beer at a restaurant near the zoo before visiting […]
Read MoreFrom the AFP: A rising incidence of birth defects in some parts of China is being attributed to environmental pollution, unhealthy lifestyles and poor nutrition. The trend has led some experts to debate the reintroduction of compulsory pre-marital health checks which were scrapped in 2003, the Xinhua news agency reported. Figures released by two populous […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Given China’s status as the workshop of the world, and given that coal, more than anything, is powering that workshop, men like Mr. Zhu could be called the coal-truck drivers of the world. They carry the coal that powers the country’s restaurants, office buildings and high-rises, as well as the […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Chinese authorities have shut down an online survey that found most respondents would prefer a different nationality if they were born again. According to the South China Morning Post, two editors of the host website, NetEase, have also been fired in the past few days, prompting speculation that they have been punished […]
Read MoreThe following article was written by Chen Guojie, a senior researcher at the Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and translated by Three Gorges Probe: Since the 1950s, 22 million people have been moved to make way for hydropower dams in China, according to official statistics. Most […]
Read MoreA child stands outside his home, in a small street in the center of Yantai, by china.sixty4
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