photo: Two construction workers escaping the rain in Chifeng City of Inner Mongolia, via www.50mm.cn.
Two construction workers escaping the rain in Chifeng City of Inner Mongolia, via www.50mm.cn
Read MoreWith a Changing World Comes An Urgency to Learn Chinese – Lori Aratani
From the Washington Post: The U.S. government flew 10 teachers to Washington from China this month and gave them a five-day crash course in Dupont Circle on how to teach — American-style — before dispatching them to schools across the country. Although the number may seem small, the scramble to recruit and train these teachers […]
Read MoreAudio: An Interview with Xiao Qiang on Human Rights Watch’s report – Ric Allan and Doran Barons
Digital Village is KPFK’s weekly show about the impact of technology, computers and the Internet on media and popular culture. Here is my conversation with the hosts on the latest Human Rights Watch report: “Race to the Bottom”: Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship.
Read MoreAppeal Likely for Journalist at The Times – Jim Yardley
From the New York Times: Lawyers for a Chinese researcher for The New York Times said on Friday that they would probably appeal his conviction on a fraud charge but also expressed satisfaction that a Beijing court dismissed a more serious charge of leaking state secrets. The researcher, Zhao Yan, 44, was found not guilty […]
Read MoreVan Gogh From the Sweatshop – Martin Paetsch
From Spiegel Online: Southern China is the world’s leading center for mass-produced works of art. One village of artists exports about five million paintings every year — most of them copies of famous masterpieces....
Read MoreLunch with the FT: China’s Oprah – Richard McGregor
From the Financial Times: Hung (pronounced “Hong”) Huang is sometimes labelled as China’s Oprah Winfrey, a description that both flatters and underestimates her. She has an agony column in her listings magazine; an internet blog offering advice that is a little racy – at least by local standards; an expanding stable of magazines; and a […]
Read MoreOath absent action turns into parody – Raymond Zhou blog
From Raymond Zhou blog: Last Sunday, 500 newly recruited civil servants participated in a ceremony in Guangzhou. They all come from government customs and tax departments, which are deemed “highly vulnerable to corruption.” (Actually, the original term is “highly dangerous professions,” something that usually refers to construction workers who toil on skyscrapers, nurses who handle […]
Read MoreHarmonious society vs. popular television – Danwei blog
From Danwei blog: Following the drop-off of costume dramas, emotional dramas of family ethics were on the increase, but the administrators have already begun privately discussing rules and policies to clean up what’s currently on screen, and the next step will be to limit domestic dramas and period comedies. Crime dramas, costume dramas, and emotional […]
Read MoreMysterious Face of Mogao Caves Unveiled – CRI.com
From CRI.com via China Net: The mysterious face of 200 caves north of the Mogao Caves has been unveiled and will be made into a new tourist route, said Fan Jinshi, the dean of the Dunhuang Research Institute. Situated at a strategic point along the Silk Route at the crossroads of trade as well as […]
Read MoreAffordable housing, food, recreation drive a trend of reverse migration – Vanessa Hua
From The San Francisco Chronicle, via A Glimpse of the World blog: Philip Hu fled Shanghai as a child after the communists took over China in 1949. After growing up in Taiwan, he went to UC Berkeley and eventually became a Silicon Valley tech executive. But he and his wife, Tanlie Chao, 55, have sold […]
Read MoreWhen activists fall foul of China’s police state – Zeng Jinyan
From International Herald Tribune: A “green, high-tech and people’s Olympics” in Beijing 2008? Nothing is more ironic than this official slogan as I look out of my window at my home in Bobo Freedom City in the Beijing suburbs, not far from where the Games are intended to bring glory to my country. I live […]
Read MoreChina releases underground bishop after decade in prison – CWNews.com
From CWNews.com: A bishop of China’s underground Catholic Church has been released after more than 10 years in prison, the US-based Cardinal Kung Foundation reports. Bishop An Shuxin, an auxiliary of the Baoding diocese in Hebei province, was set free on August 24. He had been arrested in May 1996, in a government raid on […]
Read MoreVideo: China dismisses fraud charges – Deborah Lutterbeck
From Reuters: A Chinese court dismissed charges against a New York Times researcher Zhao Yan, 44, had been accused of telling the U.S. newspaper details of rivalry between Chinese President Hu Jintao and his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, over military appointments in 2004. [Click to see] See also China Gives Times Researcher 3 Years by Jim […]
Read MoreVideo: CNN’s latest reports on China
Here are the two latest China reports from CNN.com: (1) China’s Blog Revolution: Thousands in China are using blogs as a way of self-expression. CNN’s Mike Chinoy reports. [Click to see] (2) China cracks down on rights defenders: China’s communist regime is cracking down on those who seek freedom. CNN’s Jaime FlorCruz reports. [Click to […]
Read MoreBusiness, Politics Merge in Chinese Villages – Louisa Lim
From NPR’s Morning Edition: The village of Xiacheng in Zhejiang province is part of a tiny revolution, which could slowly change the way China is governed. All villages in China now elect their own leaders. And in Zhejiang province, where many households run factories in their front rooms, they’re choosing businessmen like Wu Houhui. “In […]
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