Photo: Yahoo facing moral dilemma in China, via fofo.org/news
Yahoo is expanding its operation in China by making huge deals with Alibaba.com, photo from fofo.org/news.
Read MorePhoto: Man with umbrella at the Temple of Heaven, thanks to Natasha Pickowicz
Man with umbrella at the Temple of Heaven, thanks to Natasha Pickowicz for the photo, via webshots
Read MoreBuddhist Capitalists? – Sam Crane
From The Useless Tree blog: China Daily is reporting that Buddhist monks in Shanghai are enrolling in MBA courses to learn how to better manage their temples. Just another example of the ineluctable power of capitalism to “break down all Chinese walls,” as a long-dead German political economist once said. Perhaps it is necessary for […]
Read MoreActivist on hunger strike in jail – Jonathan Watts
From the Guardian: A blind Chinese activist who has been at the forefront of a campaign to expose the dark side of the state’s one-child policy went on hunger strike yesterday after he was arrested for trying to launch a class action lawsuit against forced sterilisations and abortions. Chinese Rights Defenders has issued a statement […]
Read MoreA Chinese University Removes a Topic From the Closet – Howard W. French
From the New York Times: The Fudan University class, Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies, is the first of its kind ever offered to Chinese undergraduates, and Ms. Sun briefly wondered why it was so well attended, before providing her own answer. “The attitude toward homosexuality in China is changing,” she said. “It is a […]
Read MoreRelief goods from China arrives in US – Xinhua
From Xinhua: A total of 104 tons of emergency supplies from China, destined for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, arrived in a US airbase in Little Rocks, Arkansas Wednesday afternoon local time. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said the relief goods include power generators, tents, bed sheets and child clothing, with a value of 5 […]
Read MoreDebating China’s ‘peaceful rise’ – Michael Vatikiotis
From the International Herald Tribune: Recent Chinese statements on its critical relationship with the United States have tried to deflect perceptions of a brewing confrontation by projecting China as a “force for peace.” Such statements highlight the carefully woven rhetoric that has accompanied China’s emergence as a global superpower. Although it is often dismissed as […]
Read MoreFrom a Village in China To the Wedding Canopy in Jerusalem – Baruch Gordon
From Israel National News: Shlomo and Dina Jin are descendants of the Jewish community that existed for nearly a thousand years in Kaifeng, China. With the help of the Shavei Israel organization, the Jins recently completed their conversion back to Judaism by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, and will be getting married at 5:30 PM at Heichal […]
Read MoreWal-Mart steps up expansion in China – Hugo Miller
From Bloomberg, via the International Herald Tribune: Wal-Mart plans to open 14 superstores in China this year in an effort to catch up with Carrefour and domestic chains. China’s retail market is estimated at $652 billion. In December, China made it possible for foreign retailers to open stores without a local partner. The decision met […]
Read MoreNew Orleans, another facet of American civilization – People’s Daily
From People’s Daily Online: The disaster brought by Hurricane Katrina is perhaps unprecedented in the American history. Some people associated it with the tsunami happened last yearend in the Indian Ocean and called it “a tsunami of America”; others were reminded of the terror attacks New York suffered four years ago, and called it a […]
Read MoreThe lives and deaths of Chinese coal miners
This power point presentation describes the harsh lives – and deaths – of coal miners in China. For more on coal miners, see here.
Read MoreAs China changes, so does its image of US – Robert Marquand
From the Christian Science Monitor: Many Chinese still feel a century-old sense that America is young and flexible, a “sunshine society,” a place of wealth and generosity where laws are made to protect people, as one Beijing scholar here puts it. At the same time, more Chinese describe the US as trying to keep China […]
Read MoreMicrosoft China defector hits out – BBC
From the BBC: Microsoft’s failures in the Chinese market prompted a key employee to defect to search engine firm Google, a US court heard during testimony. Former Microsoft vice-president Kai-Fu Lee is at the centre of a bitter employment wrangle after he was hired by Google to set up a research centre. This topic on […]
Read MoreFirms face moral dilemma in China – Jane Wakefield
From the BBC: Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has accused Yahoo of being “a police informant for the Chinese regime”, following allegations that information supplied by the company helped jail a journalist. The allegations have once again raised questions about how companies should do business in China and how far they should collaborate with the […]
Read MorePhoto: Hong Kong billboard, thanks to Li Huai for the photo
Photo: Hong Kong billboard, thanks to Li Huai for the photo
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