Starting from last week, it has been very hard to find any unofficial writings inside of the Great Firewall about Bush’s visit. Searching “Bush” (Â∏ɉªÄ) through Chinese search engines such as Baidu shows very “clean” results of mostly official news. Smaller search start-ups such as BBS search engine teein.com did not do such a clean […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: In his 19th-century classic, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, German sociologist Max Weber argued that Asian values were incompatible with the development of a modern economic system. He saw in the brand of Christianity practiced in northern Europe the only ethical system with the attributes needed to make […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: President George W. Bush began a one-day visit here on Sunday with a first set of meetings with President Hu Jintao of China to defuse a host of tensions, even as many in Beijing argue that he will be able to apply little true pressure on the world’s fastest-rising power. […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Ask citizens of Moscow or St. Petersburg if China will soon rule the world and you’ll get a roll of the eyes and some variation of: “Well, isn’t that what the Soviet Union was supposed to do? Look at us today.” Now superimpose those sentiments over President George W. Bush’s […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via San Francisco Chronicle: U.S. President George W. Bush pressed China on Sunday to expand religious, political and social freedoms and won renewed promises ” but no concrete actions ” from President Hu Jintao to open China’s huge markets to U.S. farmers and businesses. Hu said the two leaders sought an outcome of […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth: When Zhang Baoqing (º†‰øùÂ∫Ü) retired from his position as deputy minister at the Ministry of Education in China, he was interviewed by China Youth Daily (November 14, 2005). From that interview, this particular piece of Q&A stood out: Reporter: I have read your poetry collections. Over the last ten years, your poetry seemed […]
Read MoreFrom Economist.com: When George Bush visits China this weekend, he and his counterpart, Hu Jintao, will stress their common ground. But the two countries continue nervously to appraise each other’s intentions HU JINTAO, China’s president, has a favourite phrase these days: “harmonious world”, in which countries of different outlooks live together in peace. Mr Hu […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Li Sheng-tsiang is a local success story. Brought up in a small fishing community on the outskirts of the central Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei Province, his school friends laughed at him when he said he wanted to run his own business. But the economic reforms brought new opportunities and today […]
Read MoreFrom The Nanfang Daily, via Press Interpreter, translated by Shirley Xiaobi Dong: My father- and mother-in-law live in the country. My wife and I work in the city. Since we live far away from them and we are both busy with work, we seldom visit them except on holidays. One day, very unexpectedly, they visited […]
Read MoreFrom TIME.com: Beijing will use the occasion to showcase its status as a world power. A visit by a U.S. president once had the power to change China. President Nixon’s breakthrough meeting in Chairman Mao’s quarters in 1972 signaled China’s willingness to side with the U.S. against the Soviet Union; President Reagan’s visit in 1984 […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: ANALYSIS: Bureaucrats who fear losing jobs, and farmers, their livelihood, are likely to conceal or deny an outbreak, In the coastal city of Ningbo, jittery residents have been queuing up for tables at a hot-pot restaurant that promised a special dish to prevent bird flu. The restaurant’s popularity soared — […]
Read MoreFrom USATODAY.com: The number of Americans living in China has reached a historic high of 110,000. They are teachers, hairdressers, diplomats, travelers, students and business fat cats. There’s even a bluegrass banjo player and singer who is scheduled to perform in Mandarin here Friday night. What kind of advice about dealing with the Chinese can […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: Brushing aside democrats’ demands for a timetable on universal suffrage, President Hu Jintao called on Hong Kong Friday to accept what’s being offered on political reform. There was no indication that Hu was prepared to condone any compromise on the government’s political reform plan and the underlying message was that Hong Kong […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: A young Japanese woman in the comic book “Hating the Korean Wave” exclaims, “It’s not an exaggeration to say that Japan built the South Korea of today!” In another passage the book states that “there is nothing at all in Korean culture to be proud of.” In another comic book, […]
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