For the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, James Mann, author-in-residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and former Beijing correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, recommends “To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960” by Jonathan Spence, Little, Brown and Company, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In the summers of 2003 and 2004, hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets here to call for the direct election of Hong Kong’s chief executive and the entire legislature. But the demand was quickly ruled out by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s rubber-stamp parliament. […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: China published new guidelines on Websites that provide news to better regulate the country’s rapidly developing online industry. The rules, issued yesterday by the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Council, China’s Cabinet, will “standardize the management of news and information” in the country, the government said. The rules went into […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via A Glimpse of the World: Shortly after Li Chunyan married five years ago, she sold her wedding gifts ” two water buffaloes ” and set up a tiny medical clinic next door to a pigpen. Her only competition in this hamlet with no running water was a witch doctor […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: In the following, you will find the full translation of Li Ao’s speech at Beijing University. I was working off an imperfect transcription (see Xinzhoubao; in Chinese) that contained some things that were obvious errors. Therefore, this translation contains some guesses by me as to what was really said. There are other […]
Read MoreYan Chang Lu open market, thanks to Shanghai Diaries for the photo, via flickr
Read MoreFrom AP, via Sydney Morning Herald: China is imposing new regulations to control content on its news websites, the Government said today, another step in efforts to police a rapidly expanding internet population. The rules were issued by the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Council, China’s cabinet, to “standardise the management of news […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Three years after becoming China’s top leader, Hu Jintao has solidified his grip on power and intimidated critics inside and outside the Communist Party with the help of the man once seen as his most potent rival. Mr. Hu, China’s president and Communist Party chief, and Zeng Qinghong, vice president […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (registration required): Japan on Tuesday accused China of beginning to produce oil or gas from a field in disputed waters in the East China Sea, saying it was weighing up what counter-measures to take. Shoichi Nakagawa, the trade minister who has turned Chinese gas production into a territorial issue, said on […]
Read MoreFrom the Sunday Times: Would-be webloggers living under repressive regimes from China to Iran can now download an online handbook on how to become a successful “cyber-dissident”. Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based media watchdog, today published its Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, an 87-page pamphlet full of tips on producing successul blogs and sneaking past […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.co.uk: Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven economic powers warned on Friday that oil prices were a growing threat to healthy world economic growth, calling for more crude output, energy conservation and investment. Agreeing to meet again in Britain in December, the ministers and central bankers from the United States, Italy, Canada, Japan, […]
Read MoreFrom The Taipei Times: Writer, TV commentator, political gadfly and independent Legislator Li Ao (ÊùéÊïñ) claimed yesterday that today’s China is in its halcyon days that have not been seen since the Han (206 BC-AD 220) and Tang dynasties (AD 618-907). Li, in his second speech in China to Tsinghua University faculty and students, lauded […]
Read MoreFrom The Taipei Times: With the best will in the world it is hard to see anything new in President Chen Shui-bian’s (Èô≥Ê∞¥ÊâÅ) invitation to Chinese President Hu Jintao (ËÉ°Èå¶Êø§) to hold a “rational dialogue.” The government is trying to talk up the offer as if it involves major concessions. After all, Taiwan has now […]
Read MoreFrom The Japan Times Online : In very important negotiations, the Chinese tend to work things in a manner different from the West. Their diplomats generally dislike framing positions in an edgy, confrontational, take-it-or-leave-it style. That approach strikes them as too risky. They tend to process an initial rebuff or outright rejection as engendering a […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: Each year, more than six million farmers leave villages in the locality for cities for jobs in transportation, construction or cleaning, Chongqing itself absorbs 400,000 new migrant farmer workers annually. A sample survey by the Chongqing Municipal Agricultural Bureau shows that 92 percent of migrant farmer workers say they feel […]
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