From the Christian Science Monitor (link): Ni Youlian is the “Last Mohican” in a downtown neighborhood that used to have 4,000 families. He’s glad that President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have taken up the cause of ordinary people in their speeches this week at China’s annual National People’s Congress. But like so many […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link) Like a giant company concerned with organizational disarray and a sinking public image, the Chinese Communist Party is trying to remake itself into an efficient, modern machine. But to do so, it has chosen one of its oldest political tools ” a Maoist-style ideological campaign, complete with required study […]
Read MoreA girl enjoying her fish BBQ in Changsha street, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom CNET News (link) “It is more important for us to participate, not only for economic reasons, but to be able to” help shape where the industry is going, Yang said during a question-and-answer session at the Thomas Weisel Partners Internet and Telecom Conference in San Francisco. “You have to balance the risk of not […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (link): China is moving to protect rural residents against the demands of rapacious officials and developers by drawing up plans to reform the rules governing state requisitions of farmers’ land. The reform would introduce a “market mechanism” for compensation payments for farmland seized for commercial use, said Du Ying, a deputy […]
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio (link): Like everything else Internet-related in China, podcasts are exploding in popularity. From film parodies to pornography, audio and video downloads are pushing the boundaries of the law and decency. Irishman Ken Carroll started podcasting Chinese lessons just over five months ago. His learn-with-Ken podcasts now attract more than 10,000 visitors […]
Read MoreFrom Red Herring (link): Media coverage of northern Inuit clubbing baby seals was enough to charge emotions and virtually close down Canada’s fur trade in the 1980s. Images of white police officers clubbing blacks in Soweto Township outside Johannesburg sent international investors and multinationals packing in apartheid-era South Africa a decade earlier. Can reports of […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times (link): When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao presented his third Government Work Report this week to the National People’s Congress (NPC), there was plenty to boast about. With China’s economy racing along at 9.9% growth last year and surpassing Britain as the fourth-largest economy in the world, the premier clearly enjoyed basking in […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post (link): China warned the United States on Tuesday against sending “false signals” to Taiwan by playing down a recent decision by the island to do away with the National Unification Council. Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said Taiwan’s decision constituted an “open provocation” that required a tough response not only from China […]
Read MoreFrom the New Statesman (link): According to Hu Jintao, China’s president and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Marxism is still applicable in China. And, in a recent announcement that has startled analysts, the party has pledged “unlimited funds” to the cause of “reviving” Marxism in China, in an attempt to turn the country […]
Read MoreFrom the Finantial Times (link) The head of China’s statistics bureau has called for action to limit “malicious” moves by multinational companies to acquire local companies as a way of establishing monopolies in the domestic market. In an interview with the official Xinhua news agency published by newspapers on Wednesday, Li Deshui, head of the […]
Read MoreThe environmental crisis in China is attracting European investment and technology. From China View (link). SHANGHAI, March 8 (Xinhuanet) — Suez, the largest French environmental industry group, will double its investment in China in the next two years. The remark was made by Michel Detay, president for Asian-Pacific Operations with Suez here on Wednesday. He […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post (link) In an open clearing on a sunny winter day, Mrs. Liu looks as fashionable as any wannabe Shanghainese. But her highlighted hair, black leather jacket, fake fur collar and high-heeled boots contrast sharply with the heaps of scrap rubber in a muddy hollow far from the city’s skyscrapers, where several […]
Read MoreOn NPR’s All Things Considered, Louisa Lim reported on blogging in China (link). Tomorrow, All Things Considered will cover podcasting in China: China has more than 30 million bloggers, by some estimates. A few are political. Some are unusual, such as Mumu, a Communist Party member who has clips of herself doing sexy dances. But […]
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