Photo: A street scene, by redredpei via Flickr.com
A street scene, by redredpei via Flickr.com
Read MoreChinese acrobatics troupe turns ‘Swan Lake’ on its head – Sheila Melvin
From the International Herald Tribune: ‘Swan Lake” is one of the best-loved of all ballets, especially in China, where it was the first full-length ballet performed by Chinese dancers after the founding of the People’s Republic. The Tchaikovsky classic is a standard in the Central Ballet of China’s repertory and is also frequently performed by […]
Read MoreImpeaching Corrupt Officials in Henan AIDS Villages – Yazhou Zhoukan
ESWN has provided a loose translation of an article from Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly): Now corruption is present whenever opportunities present themselves and the risks of being caught are perceived to be low. So it is really really unfortunate that there are abundant opportunities for improper enrichment in the Henan AIDS villages of Shangcai county […]
Read MoreHunan deputy governor tries to kill himself amid corruption probe – Irene Wang and Ivan Zhai
From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A deputy governor of Hunan apparently tried to kill himself at his home in Changsha last week after being questioned by inspectors from Beijing, making him the most senior official in the country to attempt suicide. Sources said Zheng Maoqing, 60, had been admitted to hospital […]
Read MoreRisky business in China’s west – David Nguyen
From Asia Times: The “Go West” campaign is one of many policies China has initiated to develop the infrastructure and vast resources of its far western regions, Xinjiang and Xizang, also known as the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, while strengthening political and economic ties with bordering states. As money continues to be invested in these regions […]
Read MoreTake me home, Chinese roads – Ralph Jennings
From Asia Times: In mountainous Miyun, a suburb of Beijing about 120 kilometers from Tiananmen Square, farmers have taken advantage of their location along a highway from the district center to where Beijing outdoors people like to scale cliffs on weekends. Farmers living along the road have converted their homes into guesthouses that charge 40 […]
Read MoreChina Releases Investigative Reporter Whose Jailing Had Upset U.S. – Philip P. Pan
From the Washington Post: The Chinese government released a prominent investigative reporter from prison Tuesday, even as it has been intensifying a crackdown on the press. The early release appeared intended to mollify the Bush administration, which had included the journalist on a short list of political prisoners whose cases it raises regularly with Chinese […]
Read MoreChina fixed-line, mobile phone subscribers to top 820 mln in 2006 – AFX
From AFX, via Forbes.com: The number of telephone subscribers in China is expected to top 820 mln this year, up from 746 mln at the end of 2005, the China Daily reported, citing figures from the Ministry of Information Industry. Fixed-line subscribers are expected to increase by 30 mln this year, while mobile phone subscribers […]
Read MoreBefore You Set Up Shop in China… – Business Week
From a special Business Week report on Doing Business in China: Small-business owners looking to move into the Middle Kingdom, take note: Despite the allure of cheap labor and a staggeringly large market, successfully setting up shop in China might be one of the biggest challenges your company will ever face.‚Ä®‚Ä®First, there’s a long history […]
Read MoreCantonese Is Losing Its Voice – David Pierson
From the Los Angeles Times: Cantonese, a sharp, cackling dialect full of slang and exaggerated expressions, was never the dominant language of China. But it came to dominate the Chinatowns of North America because the first immigrants came from the Cantonese-speaking southern province of Guangdong, where China first opened its ports to foreigners centuries ago. […]
Read MoreHow to Be A Player in Beijing – Red Herring
From Red Herring: Remember Peter Chung? Back in May 2001, Mr. Chung was a 24-year-old Princeton University grad posted to Seoul by the Carlyle Group and living, by his own account, quite large. A week and a half into his new buy-side job, he emailed home telling friends about his opulent digs, about riding around […]
Read MoreChina’s top communist scholar ‘stole liberal dissident’s ideas’ – Chris Gill
From the Guardian: A Chinese professor adopted as the intellectual poster boy of the Communist party has come under fire for plagiarising the work of a dissident jailed by the government in the early 1990s. Zhou Ye Zhong, a professor at Wuhan University, is credited with much of the inspiration behind the current leadership’s new […]
Read MoreSmall Mines Key to China’s Coal Crisis – Peter Enav
From the AP, via the Guardian: Small, privately owned and worked by moonlighting farmers, the coal mine in central China’s Xin’an County was like hundreds throughout the country. And, like thousands of Chinese miners, those below ground faced the daily danger of injury or death. On Dec. 2, a nearby river overflowed, sending water pouring […]
Read MoreBeijing drops out of top 10 ‘best city’ list – Fu Jing
From China Daily: Beijing may be the nation’s capital, but according to a recent survey, it does not even rank in China’s top 10 cities in terms of suitability for living. The city came 15th in the list, as compared to third in 2004, due to its bad traffic, high housing prices and heavy pollution.
Read MoreChina frees corruption journalist – BBC
From BBC: A Chinese journalist imprisoned for subversion after writing articles about corruption has been freed a year early, according to a campaign group. Jiang Weiping was reunited with his family after a court in Dalian, north-eastern China, commuted the final year of his six-year sentence. The US-based Dui Hua Foundation said he was freed […]
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