From Reuters: A Chinese court jailed a blind human rights campaigner for four years and three months on Thursday, state media announced, prompting other activists to warn of a clampdown on China’s “rights defenders.” Chen Guangcheng, who was tried last Friday without his own lawyers present, drew international attention last year by accusing officials in […]
Read MoreFrom Letters from China blog: A restaurant in Changsha parodies Grand Ceremony of the Founding of the Nation, one of the reddest oil paintings, Changsha Evening News reports. The only noticeable differences are the colour tone and a newly added caption: “Comrades, Dafanguo [Restaurant] is established!” Grand Ceremony of the Founding of the Nation (1953) […]
Read MoreIn the Korea Herald, Wenran Jiang writes: Once again, protests against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s annual visit to the Yasukuni Shrine are breaking out in China as well as South Korea. Koizumi’s insistence on paying homage to the war dead interred at Yasukuni, where convicted war criminals from World War II are among the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A drought in southwest China, the worst in 50 years, has led to the loss of five million tonnes of grain and damaged more than two million hectares (7,700 sq miles) of farmland, state media said on Thursday. The government was helping farmers plant crops like sweet potatoes, beans and yams which can […]
Read MoreFrom crienglish.com via Xinhua News Agnecy: A TV contest by Beijing TV station launched formally at the Great Hall of the People on Monday aiming to select roles for the remake of the 1987 CCTV classic TV drama “A Dream of Red Mansions(Á∫¢Ê•ºÊ¢¶).” The original TV series “A Dream of Red Mansions” is based on […]
Read More2006 Conference on Clean Governance and Party Moral Building at Shanghai Jiaotong University, from sjtu.edu.cn
Read MoreZhang Quanjing, (张全景) is the former head of the organization department of the CPC Central Committee (1994 Р1999). The following quotes are from his interview with the Chinese official publication Oriental...
Read MoreFrom Confessions of an Aca/Fan (via ESWN): Last month, what some are describing as “the largest political protest gathering in a virtual world game ever” occurred within the Chinese Massively Multiplayer Game, Fantasy Westward Journey (FWJ). Comparative Media Studies alum Zhan Li has been working with me over the past several weeks to piece together […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: A Chinese court has ordered two Japanese historians to pay damages of 1.6m yuan (¬£110,000) to a survivor of the 1937 Nanjing massacre whom they accused of fabricating her account. Although the ruling is largely symbolic because it has no force in Japan, the defamation lawsuit opens up a new front in […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The Wall Street Journal: Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, once considered one of the world’s wealthiest political groups, said it lost 42.7 billion New Taiwan dollars (US$1.3 billion) on investments over the past decade. The party’s losses began in 1996 on a wide range of investments in Taiwan […]
Read MoreFrom CRI.com via China Net: When a tourist from Beijing accompanied a Chinese friend to the Forbidden City, they were not allowed to enter two shops in the Forbidden City. The shops claimed they only welcomed foreign tourists, not Chinese ones. Given that all shops aim to promote themselves to bring in more customers, why […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Five people have been detained in China for running striptease send-offs at funerals, state media say. The once-common events are held to boost the number of mourners, as large crowds are seen as a mark of honour. But the arrests, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, could signal the end of the […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Besides being one of the most recognizable tourist sites in China, the landmark Friendship Store on Beijing’s Peace Avenue has meant many things to many people. When it opened in 1973, it was a comfort to foreigners, who back then could not find their imported wine, shoes and food anywhere else. […]
Read MoreFrom Youth Times, translated by Danwei: In his Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy once said, through the character Nekhludoff, “On Easter eve, the most secret of moments has nothing to do with the living.” N years ago Brother Monk read that line without understanding it, but N days ago he had a sudden realization. 16 news reporters, […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Draconian management of information is a time-honored tradition in China, where the pen has always garnered roughly the same respect as the sword. But China’s leaders have rarely been so open about major media controls – and have never publicly considered writing them into its legal code. “This is definitely […]
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