Photo: Two men sit on a street in Yantai, by china.sixty4
Two men sit on a street in Yantai, by china.sixty4
Read More25 Coincidences of Busted Corrupt Officials, part four – Gao Fusheng
Latest installment in the typology of corrupt officials from People’s Daily Online via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: “Announced (“Á§∫“Âá∫Êù•ÁöÑ),” like Yang Shunjiang (Êù®È°∫ʱü), former deputy party secretary of Qiuqiao Township in Huai’an City, Jiangsu Province. Yang participated in an open bid for the position of Chuzhou District Health Bureau Chief in late 2001. In […]
Read MoreSilent Games – Melinda Liu
On Newsweek.com, Melinda Liu summarizes the recent government crackdown on free expression in China: For a while many foreign correspondents thought authorities were “killing the chicken to scare the monkey.” That’s a Chinese proverb meaning one target is attacked in order to intimidate another. When we saw our Chinese contacts harassed, detained, physically assaulted and […]
Read MoreChinese JSR (Journalistic Social Responsibility)??
Here’s yet another stir-fried tale of muckraking that has begged (and somewhat blurred) the ethical question of the hour: is the system to blame, or the journalists? For the past few weeks, Sohu.com has been polling readers opinions’ in the case of Bai Rundai. The senior investigative journalist for the Henan Commercial News, a six-time […]
Read MoreNews Corp plans China MySpace – Aline van Duyn and Joshua Chaffin
From Financial Times: Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday that his wife, Wendy Deng, was working with senior News Corp executives to help bring the company’s popular MySpace social networking site to China. “We have to make MySpace a very Chinese site,” Mr Murdoch said at a media conference organised by Goldman Sachs. “I have sent […]
Read MoreI.M.F. Votes to Enhance Power of China and Others – Steven Weisman
From New York Times: Member states of the International Monetary Fund, yielding to demands from China and leading Western countries, voted Monday to adopt a disputed plan to modify the fund’s power structure and take steps to expand the voice of China and other rapidly developing nations. The modification of the governance of the fund, […]
Read MoreAgricultural Bank of China is Ready to be Reorganized – Miaoyan and Guo Tianyong
From Shanghai Security News via Soho.com, translated by CDT: Zhou Xiaochuan, China’s central bank governor, said today “it won’t be too long before the Agricultural Bank of China is reformed.” Zhou said this in Singapore at an annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund. The bank’s business plan and reform process have been basically decided, […]
Read MoreSeventy Percent of Chinese Can’t Afford New Houses – Cai Guozhao
From Shanghai Security News, tranlsated by CDT: According to a report done by Beijing Normal University, the average price for a house in east China has reached 4,000 yuan per square meter. The average household income was between 15,000 and 17,000 in 2005, and the house price-income ratio was about 13. The report also revealed […]
Read MoreMan rejects first penis transplant – Ian Sample
From the Guardian: Chinese surgeons have performed the world’s first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse. “His quality of life was affected severely,” said Dr […]
Read MoreInnocents (Not) Abroad – Eamonn Fingleton
From the American Prospect: The size of the trade deficit with China is one of the hottest potatoes in American economic policy these days. It is about to get a little hotter, thanks to Beijing’s highly provocative, if hitherto largely overlooked, controls on outbound tourism. In theory the United States should be a major beneficiary […]
Read MoreBeijing to ban parking at Olympic Games venues – China Daily
From China Daily: Beijing citizens will not be allowed to park at Olympic venues as part of government plans to discourage the use of private cars during the 2008 Games, local media reported on Monday. The authorities in China’s capital, which has an official population of 15 million and notoriously congested traffic, are considering a […]
Read MoreTop diplomats from Japan, China to meet at weekend – Reuters
From Reuters: Top diplomats from Japan and China are set to meet in Tokyo at the weekend amid speculation that Shinzo AbeÔºàÂÆâÂÄçÊôã‰∏âÔºâ may hold a summit with Chinese President Hu JintaoÔºàËÉ°Èî¶Ê∂õÔºâ after he becomes Japan’s next prime minister. Relations between the two nations are at their worst in decades, and China has refused to hold […]
Read MoreChina boosts global role with US/Asia energy meet – Reuters
From Reuters: China will host a summit of top U.S. and Asian energy officials next month, government officials said on Tuesday, as Beijing seeks a greater say in coordinating global consumer-nation policy to help rein in oil prices. Government officials from China, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States will attend the October 23-26 […]
Read MoreFifty Influential Public Intellectuals – DACHS
The Digital Archive of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg has translated the list of 50 Influential Public Intellectuals in China, originally published in 2004 in the Nanfang renwu zhoukan (Southern People Weekly), and compiled a record of their publications and of the debate over public intellectuals: The “Public Intellectuals” issue was heatedly debated […]
Read MoreChina Jails Official in Graft Crackdown – Reuters
From Reuters via the New York Times: China sentenced a former senior provincial official to 11 years in jail for taking bribes, state media reported on Tuesday, adding to the toll of cadres punished in the Communist Party’s anti-corruption drive. The former deputy Communist Party secretary of coal-rich Shanxi province in northern China, Hou Wujie […]
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