From Reuters via the New York Times: A Chinese court has rejected a woman’s claims for compensation for her sex life, which was ruined when her husband was injured in an accident, the Shanghai Daily reported on Thursday. Wei Suying, 31, whose husband has suffered from erectile dysfunction since a 2003 workplace accident, filed suit […]
Read MoreRural residents comprise more than 70% of China’s population. How does the Chinese government implement its policy to and exert control over this vast population? One traveling to the countryside can find slogans on village walls. These slogans are usually composed and painted by local government officals. Some of those slogans are more notable than […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Louis Cha is the number one kung fu fiction writer in China according to a biennial poll of the top ten most widely read authors in the country conducted by the Chinese Publishing Science Research Center....
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Read MoreFrom the AP, via the International Herald Tribune: China’s sentencing of a Hong Kong reporter to five years in prison on a charge of spying this week reflects a mounting conflict for the communist government: how to tighten control over information in an increasingly open, Internet-savvy society. Dozens of journalists and Internet essayists have been […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Gulinar Sitkan’s contribution to China’s pollution problem is four tons of coal a year. It forms heaping black piles outside the shepherd’s log cabin in this mountainous village of China’s northwestern Xinjiang Province. Coal is cheap and readily available, and China burns nearly 2 billion tons a year for energy […]
Read MoreIn The Nation, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom reviews three recent books about China: Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present by Peter Hessler; China Candid: The People on the People’s Republic by Sang Ye; Geremie R. Barm√© and Miriam Lang, eds.; and One China, Many Paths by Chaohua Wang, ed.: What kinds of conclusions […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: When high school students in Shanghai crack their history textbooks this fall, they may be in for a surprise. The new standard world history text drops wars, dynasties and Communist revolutions in favor of colorful tutorials on economics, technology, social customs and globalization. Socialism has been reduced to a single, […]
Read MoreFrom Three Gorges Probe: Sinohydro, the Chinese company set to build a billion-dollar dam on the Salween River in Burma in partnership with the Thai utility EGAT, has been criticized in an annual performance review of state-owned enterprises for unspecified “safety or environmental pollution accidents.” It is the second high-level public rebuke in recent years […]
Read MoreFrom Spot-On: The last time I chatted with Gao Zhisheng, he’d just finished watching Gandhi. It was one of those late April days in Beijing when you can taste the dust. I was with Martin Garbus, the veteran First Amendment trial lawyer, whose case work with dissidents includes names like Havel, Sahkarov and Mandela. He […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: A Hong Kong journalist has been sentenced to five years in prison after a Beijing court convicted him on charges of spying for Taiwan, state media reported Thursday morning. The journalist, Ching Cheong, 56, was tried in a closed courtroom earlier this month after being held for 18 months. International human […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, the nation’s biggest lender, will seek waivers from the government to help sell a record $21 billion of stock in an initial public offering, two people involved in the sale said. Conflicting regulations in Hong Kong and Shanghai are hampering the Beijing-based bank’s plan to sell about […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Shi Yongxin, the abbot of Shaolin Temple, widely considered the birthplace of Chinese Kung Fu, spends most of his day greeting corporate executives, government officials and friends from all over the world and dealing with dinner invitations and business instead of shepherding all disciples. When Henan officials presented Shi with a spectacular […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Edward Friedman, a professor in the Political Science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recommends China’s Peaceful Rise: Speeches of Zheng Bijian 1997-2005 Brookings Institution Press, 2005. Friedman writes: This is a collection of talks […]
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