From Three Gorges Probe: A cancer cluster that has been linked to water pollution in a village downstream of the Danjiangkou dam in Hubei province highlights the human misery caused by China’s poisoned rivers. It also raises fears that the south-north water transfer project, which will divert river water from central China to major cities […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: LI QUN spends 12 hours a day, seven days a week building the new China. She has not seen her three children, 13, 7 and 6, for more than a year. She and her husband Lu Shigui left their village near the city of Nanchong in Sichuan province for Beijing after a […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth: (in translation) Far away from the plaza of the bronze statue of Mao Zedong, one can already hear the sound of firecrackers going off just like frying beans … pao pao … without pause. The tall and erect bronze statue of Mao Zedong was enveloped by a haze of smoke. In front of […]
Read MoreFrom The Wilson Quarterly, via A Glimpse of the World: When China first intrigued America, in the late 18th century, we desired its tea and silk. The American missionaries and traders who reached Canton and other ports did not trouble to reflect on what China might want of us”nothing more than the Christian gospel and […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: France, Germany and other states that have coddled up to the Communist dictatorship in Beijing will one day have to answer to the Chinese people, one of the country’s leading civil rights activist has told The Observer. Gao Zhisheng, a firebrand lawyer who has defended hundreds of victims of torture and persecution, […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: While experts in the United States and Europe talk about reviving plans for nuclear power, China, as in so many other fields, is racing ahead. The so-called pebblebed technology behind the Beijing test plant originated in Germany more than three decades ago, and the U.S. nuclear-power industry also pursued it. But when public […]
Read MoreThis open letter from former Cultural Minister of Taipei Lung Yingtai is translated by EastSouthWestNorth: Please Use Civilization To Convince Us — An Open Letter To Mr. Hu Jintao (see Chinese original) Mr. Jintao: In...
Read MoreThe following is CDT’s translation of an official document about the closure of Freezing Point issued by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Youth League. The original Chinese is below. On Jan. 11, 2006, the „ÄäFreezing Point„ÄãWeekly published the article “Modernization and Historical Textbooks” by Yuan Weishi, a professor in the History Department […]
Read MoreA Dog in the Shadow of Bamboo; by Lang Shining (Giuseppe Castiglione); via Liu Yue’s Eighth Continent blog.
Read MoreFrom The Washington Posrt: After a run-up in stock price, good press and public accolades, Google Inc. hit a rough patch this week.The popular Internet company acknowledged a design flaw in its recently launched video service and released a version of its search engine in China that, at the behest of the Chinese government, filtered […]
Read MoreFrom Nanfengchuang (in Chinese), translated by EastSouthWestNorth: Upon understanding, when the film crew of The Promise led by Chen Kaige arrived, Shangri La county thought that they have a terrific promotional opportunity and they discussed if the sets from The Promise such as the Flowery Golden House could be left behind for the purpose of […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent, via A Glimpse of the World: China, China, China. The country’s prospects, its relations with the rest of the world and its impact on the world economy run through proceedings here at the World Economic Forum like a stick of Brighton rock. Just a little noticed footnote at these meetings of business […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Faced with steadily increasing peasant unrest, the Communist Party has decreed extensive changes to improve the lot of farmers and stop rapid economic development from encroaching on their land. The party declared rural reform a major goal of its new five-year economic program, which began this month. The government has also […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: This week on the web we have mostly been talking about censorship. To be more specific, Google’s decision to censor some search results in order to be allowed to run a service out of China. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who spoke about the controversial decision at the Davos economic conference last week, […]
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