From the BBC: University student, Ma Dingming, has just purchased his second mobile phone this year. The phone, made by Taiwanese company Dopod, cost him $848. The phone he bought earlier in the year cost him $867… China’s increasingly wealthy middle classes and tech savvy youngsters are the main reasons why companies, including Nokia and […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The prominent Chinese dissident writer, Liu Binyan, has died at the age of 80 in the US, reports say. Mr Liu had lived in exile in the US for the past 18 years and had been suffering from cancer. He was the son of a railway worker and joined the underground Communist […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: China ordered all employees at Chinese newspapers and periodicals to undergo examinations to ensure they meet “press and publication qualifications,” the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) said Monday. In the past, journalists and editors working at Chinese newspapers and periodicals had to take tests in order to receive journalist cards, which […]
Read MoreFrom The China Post: Chairman of the Kuomintang Ma Ying-jeou, triumphant after his party’s landslide victory over the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, called on President Chen Shui-bian yesterday to improve relations between Taiwan and China. In a CTV television interview, Ma said President Chen has to “relax” restrictions on interchanges across the Taiwan Strait rather […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: The income gap between urban and rural residents may be as high as 3.3 to 1. The ratio may reach 4 to 1 by 2020 should no action be taken to curb the trend, revealed Zheng Xinli. Vice Minister, Policy Research Office of CPC Central Committee at a forum on […]
Read MoreFrom vnunet.com: The vast majority of China’s internet users want to be free to discuss and read about politics online, but also believe that people should be protected from pornographic and violent content, according to recent survey funded by a US foundation. Only eight per cent of Chinese surfers believe that political content should be […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: Three Chinese actors have evoked outrage and jubilation in the internet chatrooms of China by appearing as Japanese geishas in the film Memoirs of a Geisha. Ziyi Zhang, China’s most famous actress, has attracted epithets and accolades from “shameful traitor” to “graceful beauty” for her role. The outrage stems from the anger […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: It was well past midnight when the peasants finished piling up fragrant tobacco leaves, more than 1,000 pounds of them stacked 10 feet high on the back of a rented truck. In the still darkness, they pulled slowly out of Shangdeng village, bumped along a dirt road for a few miles […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The Communist Party has launched a campaign among political leaders and senior academics to modernize Chinese Marxism, seeking to reconcile increasingly obvious contradictions between the government’s founding ideology and its broad free-market reforms. The campaign involves the allocation of millions of dollars to produce new translations of Marxist literature and to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s rocketing medical charges are being fuelled by chronic corruption and a lack of official accountability, the family and doctor at the centre of a widening billing scandal said in reports on Monday. Weng Wenhui was treated for 67 days at a hospital in the northeastern city of Harbin before dying on Aug. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Police have apprehended three of the suspects who fled after a deadly coal mine flooding which left 42 miners missing Friday in Xin’an County in central China’s Henan Province. The three included a coal mine official in charge of production safety, a director who take charge of coal mine administration in Shisi Township […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Shi Yongxin wears a bright yellow robe and heavy prayer beads and lives in an ancient shrine high up in the mountains of central China. Yet he spends a lot of his time traveling in a chauffeur-driven jeep, jet-setting around the world and hobnobbing with Hollywood types. No wonder some […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: A huge throng of pro-democracy protesters poured through the skyscraper canyons of Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon, defying warnings from senior Chinese officials who refuse to set a timetable for general elections here. The march continued well past sunset, as more and more men, women and children of all ages […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Geremie R. Barm√©, Professor, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University, comments on “Mao: The Unknown Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Alfred A. Knopf 2005. The following is a short excerpt […]
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