From The Washington Post: At first glance, it looked like a spirited online discussion about an essay written nearly 80 years ago by modern China’s greatest author. But then again, the exchange on a popular Chinese bulletin board site seemed a bit emotional, given the subject. “In Memory of Ms. Liu Hezhen,” which Lu Xun […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Express: India is getting wealthier! At least some Indians are, according to the Forbes’ annual 40 richest Indians list, which saw the number of billionaires double since last year. There are as many as “27 billionaires, which is more than double (of) last year’s count,” Forbes latest data said. With a cut […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The United Nations Development Programme yesterday warned that the growing income gap between rich and poor in China could threaten its stability, saying Beijing should increase social spending, reform the fiscal system and push government reforms to narrow the gap. The call reflects rising concern about the inequality that has accompanied […]
Read MoreFrom the Useless Tree blog: Notice, too, how today the People’s Daily and China Daily both run a story announcing the sixth confirmed case of Bird Flu. And this gets picked up by the Washington Post. They are changing the story, diverting out gaze elsewhere… And, then, they respond indirectly with a People’s Daily story […]
Read MoreFrom InfoWorld: Access to Google’s free Web log service, Blogger, appears to once again be blocked by official censors in China, less than two months after the service became accessible to users here… In October, Google’s Blogger service became accessible to users in Beijing after having apparently been blocked by official censors for more than […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The Standard: A lawyer jailed for helping residents in Shanghai fight a forced eviction case may have been beaten and has been denied family visits, Amnesty International said. A lawyer jailed for helping residents in Shanghai fight a forced eviction case may have been beaten and has been denied family visits, Amnesty […]
Read MoreFrom Salon.com: About once a month executives from China’s Internet news sites gather in a small meeting room on the first floor of Beijing’s Information Office, where a government official tells them what not to report. China’s Internet giants all send representatives, as does the China branch of one of America’s best known icons: Yahoo. […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Seattle Times: The makers of “Memoirs of a Geisha” expected to be lauded for creating the first big-budget Hollywood movie with Asian actors in every leading role. Instead, they find themselves defending casting decisions that have inflamed historical tensions between Japan and China. The English-language film is set in Japan and […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The inaugural East Asia summit in Kuala Lumpur that ended on Thursday can be seen as a significant setback for Chinese diplomacy. That may seem a surprising conclusion given the way that Beijing has been enjoying the run of Asian diplomatic play for at least the past three years. But […]
Read MoreFrom Truthdig: Perhaps no other country has so many positive and negative trends as the home of a quarter of the world’s population. Editor’s Note: First the Terminator, then the president – there’s no shortage of people trekking to China, filled with wonderment and doubt about the future of the world’s most populous nation and […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via The Opposite End of China (Korla, Xinjiang Blog): Google Inc. became a business superstar by relentlessly following one goal: making the world’s information “universally accessible and useful.” Now its ambitions overseas are bringing it up against a government whose philosophy is very different: China. Yahoo Inc. and other rivals […]
Read MoreYuan Xiuli, who lost her husband in the Dongzhou Killins, via boxunnews.com.
Read MorePhoto series: Real China: the first photo in their life, by Linshui, via duoweinews.com.
Read MoreFrom Esquire magazine: The greatest threat to America’s success in its war on terrorism sits inside the Pentagon. The proponents of Big War (that cold-war gift that keeps on giving), found overwhelmingly in the Air Force and Navy, will go to any length to demonize China in their quest to justify high-tech weaponry (space wars […]
Read MoreHe Zuoxiu, a 78 year old self-claimed Marxist is member of Chinese Academy of Science and is a science delegate to Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference that advises the Chinese legislature. He is also a crusader against supernatural and “unscientific” thinking. The following interview was published on the Southern People’s Weekly, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: Here […]
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