From the Independent: The east will be reassuringly red today when China’s President Hu Jintao takes his place at the top of the table in the vast conference room of the Jingxi Hotel in Beijing for the opening of the 5th Plenum of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCPC). Mr […]
Read MoreFrom the Sydney Morning Herald: A tiny widow aged 85 living in two rooms, an electric rice-cooker her only modern appliance, may be a crucial witness to a dispute involving Jung Chang, the wealthy Chinese author of the worldwide bestseller Wild Swans. The dispute is one of many being picked up by some of the […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times, via A Glimpse of the World: Imagine 20 Britains. Imagine three European Unions. Now you are beginning to get the idea about China, where more than a fifth of the human race resides. Now imagine that vast country’s economy growing more than four times faster than that of the United […]
Read MoreFrom BBCnews: The amount of yuan held by foreign banks has risen significantly, in anticipation of another rise in the value of China’s currency. The Chinese government revalued its currency in July, allowing it to trade at a higher rate against the US dollar. Speculators expect the yuan to rise further as China comes under […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Floods have forced around 286,000 people to flee their homes in northwestern China, where steady rainfall since late September has strained the banks of the Hanjiang and Weihe rivers, the China Daily reported on Friday. The rising water levels along tributaries to China’s two top rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow river, affected […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Lu Li, a 23-year-old working with a foreign firm in East China’s Shanghai, has found surfing online indispensable in her daily life since she first accessed to the Internet seven years ago. “It has unfolded a new chapter in my life,” she says, adding that she can hardly imagine living without the Internet. […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Is China on the brink of being the world’s economic champion, or is it still just a developing country with hundreds of millions of poor? How about both? Sometimes it’s hard to separate the perception from the reality, but there are good reasons China is already punching above its weight […]
Read MoreFather and daughter on the streets, Beijing, from wenxue.com.
Read MoreHong Kong fishing boats, thanks to Li Huai for the photo
Read MoreFrom The Weekly Standard, via A Glimpse of the World: It seems like only a few months ago that commentators were blithely babbling about how much relations between Beijing and Washington had improved since the start of the Bush administration, which was marred by China’s downing of an American EP-3 surveillance plane and the detention […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: She’s the star of a television talent show, but Li Yuchun is not an outstanding singer or dancer. Nor is the 21-year-old considered particularly pretty. She dresses like a tomboy and, last but not least, the title of the show, sponsored by a dairy company, is The Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Supergirl […]
Read MoreFrom The Nation: Ever since taking office, the Bush Administration has struggled to define its stance on the most critical long-term strategic issue facing the United States: whether to view China as a future military adversary,...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Fancy imported cars, five star hotels and slick malls dot Guangzhou, the hub of a region that has blossomed into one of China’s — and the world’s — main economic engines. But Chen stands by the train station as a reminder of one of the most dangerous features to develop on China’s socio-political […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The Kennedy Center’s Festival of China promises rare glimpses of art from half a world away. But Tuesday at the Eisenhower Theater, it was a familiar Western work that offered the biggest surprise, as the National Ballet of China performed a tender and finely detailed excerpt from the French romantic ballet […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: There was a time when the comparatively wealthy residents of Hong Kong were skeptical about the economic and social rewards of the mainland tourist invasion. Mainlanders were seen as lower spending and more demanding than either European or North American visitors. But one new study of the economics of Chinese […]
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