From CTA.ca: A group of women in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu are proving the old adage that goes ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.’ Under the banner Women’s Rights Protection Investigation Centre (WRPIC), a growing team of women are cruising the streets of the Sichuan capital, on the hunt for wife-beaters […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Foreign investments into Chinese commercial banks, which began just a few years ago, have accelerated to a frantic pace in recent months, with record-shattering deals being announced seemingly almost weekly. Three of the four big state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) that acquired foreign funding – Bank of China (BOC), China Construction Bank (CCB), […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News At least 60 students at a military training school have been swept away during a typhoon in south-east China, state media has reported. The students went missing when two buildings were struck by a landslide in the coastal province of Fujian, Xinhua news agency said. Chinese President Hu Jintao has ordered a […]
Read MoreThanks to Professor Rudolph Wagner of the University of Heidelberg for the following information: Yannan.cn, a Beijing-based website that over the last year had emerged as the foremost forum for intellectual discussion and cutting-edge thinking in China, has closed down effective Oct. 1. A note says: “Effective today, Yannan.cn has closed for cleansing up and […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Demand from China will drive world demand for steel to increase by 4 percent or 5 percent a year in 2005 and 2006, the International Iron and Steel Institute, the leading industry body, said on Monday. Steel demand in China is expected to grow 10 percent this year and between […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via the International Herald Tribune: For a leader looking to bolster his nation’s economy and reduce its reliance on the United States, the idea seemed like a no-brainer: Hitch your fortunes to China. President Luiz In√°cio Lula da Silva of Brazil did just that… Now, Lula has some explaining to do to a […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Wen Guiyu thinks back to three years ago, when she and her mother came here from her small hometown in Hebei Province, after a 12-hour train ride. Arriving at their destination on Xi Tu Cheng Road, Ms. Wen recalls seeing masses of people – “10,000 of them.” Like her, the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: From behind her big desk on the top floor of a sleek new office tower in the Xintiandi district, Angelica Cheung, the guiding hand behind this country’s new edition of Vogue magazine, contemplated a very Chinese dilemma. “Just a few years ago, China definitely wasn’t ready and didn’t have consumers […]
Read MoreCui Jian played first officially sanctioned concert in Beijing in 12 years, via keso’s blog.
Read MoreFrom TIME: Nothing in Zheng Yichun’s upbringing foreshadowed his landing in a political prison. His English-speaking father interrogated captured American G.I.s during the Korean War, and as a teenager two decades later, Zheng led his middle school’s Communist Youth League. Only when the reform era hit China in the 1980s did the aspiring poet have […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Ten years ago, police in a small village in China’s southern Hubei province discovered the mostly decomposed body of an unidentified woman. Local villager She Xianglin had recently reported his wife, Zhang Zaiyu, missing. Zhang’s family swore the body was hers, and police arrested She and charged him with murder. She, a security […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times: For months Washington has been growing increasingly frustrated by Taiwan’s lack of spending on national defense in the face of China’s rising arms expenditures and force modernization. But seldom has the US delivered such a stern tongue-lashing to an old friend and ally as it did earlier this month. The occasion […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A gas explosion in a Chinese coal mine on Monday killed at least 34 people, the official Xinhua news agency reported, just the latest accident to hit the world’s deadliest mining industry. The blast occurred in a mine near Hebi, a city in the central province of Henan, Xinhua said, but gave no […]
Read MoreFrom The Useless Tree blog: I don’t know what is more interesting: this description of Zhang Huan‘s performance art; or the fact that the Boston Globe story ran in the China Daily. Here we have an officially sanctioned Chinese newspaper running commentary on postmodern performance art and, simultaneously, telling us that traditional Confucianism is making […]
Read MoreGito Gito Hustler live at the Ark Livehouse, Xintiandi, photo thanks to Shanghai Diaries, via flickr
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