From BusinessWeek Online: Net-savvy outfits are finding ways to let citizens see banned sites From an undisclosed location in North Carolina, Bill Xia is fighting a lonely war against China’s censors. From morning till well into the night, the Chinese native plays a cat-and-mouse game, exploiting openings in Beijing’s formidable Internet firewall and trying to […]
Read MoreFrom The Useless Tree: We all know China is an incredibly competitive society, with millions of people struggling for a good job, a good education, a good life. Young people are under incredible pressure to get into college and, once in college, to find career opportunities afterward. This story, from China Daily, shows how wrongly […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: By 2050 China will have eradicated poverty, established itself as a world power in science and lifted the average lifespan of its billion-plus citizens to 80 years, according to two blueprints for the future published yesterday. Even by the standards of a country that has a passion for long-term economic plans, the […]
Read MoreThe following was posted on the Tianyishengshui Zhuziwuyu (§©‰∏ÄÁîüÊ∞¥ Êú±Â≠êÊó†ËØ≠ ) blog in MSN Spaces. It is reported to be the latest in a series of orders tightening the restrictions on online news (Translated by CDT): Announcement of Beijing Municipal Administration Office of Internet Propaganda All, The media listed below are frequently chosen as sources […]
Read MoreMother and son taking a bath, Guangxi province, via impactlab.com.
Read MoreFreedom House just published a new report titled “Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China.” The full report is available to download here (PDF file): State control over the news media in China is achieved through a complex combination of party monitoring of news content, legal restrictions on journalists, and financial incentives for […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, recommends “A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman” by Ida Pruitt, Stanford University Press, 1967: […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The Chinese workers who have been busy for months laying paving stones in front of the white marble senate building in Libreville, Gabon, have finished. But another job awaits them across the road, with the construction of a media centre commissioned by President Omar Bongo. Thousands of kilometres to the northwest, in […]
Read MoreFrom CBS News’ Public Eye blog: China is the world’s second largest Internet market, and the aggressive efforts of U.S. Internet companies to gain a foothold there have put them in a position where they must weigh potential profits against high minded principles. U.S. lawmakers are now holding hearings to look at American Internet companies […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A chief editor of the outspoken Beijing-based newspaper the Public Interest Times was sacked yesterday after executives came under pressure from the authorities amid the ongoing tightening of official control over the media. Sources inside the newspaper said it was announced that Chen Jieren, 34, who […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Mainland internet companies are expecting new controls over their content that would prevent them from posting political and current affairs articles published by metropolitan newspapers on their websites, sources said. But articles from magazines and party newspapers would be exempt from the soon-to-be-announced directives, the sources […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has gone on record stating that the fear of soaring energy prices should not deter the international community from imposing comprehensive sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. That is easier said than done, especially when looking at the dire economic and non-economic consequences of the current […]
Read MoreFrom the Art Newspaper: A Unesco report on global trade in cultural goods and services includes two surprises. The first is that China has now become the second largest exporter of “visual arts”, accounting for 19% of world exports in this category (particularly statuary). The second surprise is that the global trade in both the […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: China’s economy will grow at 9.2% this year and will become less reliant on exports, according to the World Bank. The bank’s quarterly update said China’s politically sensitive trade surplus, which tripled to $102bn (¬£58bn) in 2005, had peaked. China has been accused of undervaluing its currency, the yuan, in order to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Hundreds of workers at a sprawling Japanese-owned Hitachi factory here are fashioning plates of glass and aluminum into shiny computer disks, wrapping them in foil. The products are destined for the United States, where they will arrive like billions of other items, labeled “made in China.” Hitachi is among multinational […]
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