From The New York Times, via Shanghai Journal: As people in this richest of Chinese cities have grown more and more affluent, they have displayed an American-style passion for the automobile. But for Shanghai, as for much of China, getting rich and growing attached to cars have increasingly gone hand in hand, and have produced […]
Read MoreFrom Slate: Kristof is right that China’s blogging rules can be sidestepped by experts. But what he and others overlook is a larger assault on the identity of the Internet itself. The Web was conceived as one global medium, by its nature open and free. But countries like China are pushing hard to divide that […]
Read MoreFrom the Chronicle of Higher Education, via a Glimpse of the World blog: Mr. Jiao is the latest casualty in the Chinese government’s war against academic dissent, a campaign that has caught many scholars by surprise. Shortly before a new, younger generation of Chinese leaders took office in 2002, intellectuals in Beijing were hoping that […]
Read MoreThe New Yorker has an article, titled the Turtles, which has no web link, about Beijing real estate tycoons Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin. Sam Crane has an interesting post about the article on his blog Useless Tree.
Read MoreOn The Washington Post, Peter Goodman wrote: Costs of Goods Rise, Standard of Living Falls. The China that Wang Huazhong glimpses on television is in the midst of an amazing transformation. In cities he has never visited, skyscrapers tower over highways choked with cars, and people jam glass-fronted malls buying up jewelry and luggage simply […]
Read MoreFrom Kyoto News, via Japan Today: A Western-style restaurant in the northeastern Chinese city of Jilin has hung a sign requiring Japanese customers to apologize for what China sees as Japan’s wartime crimes, according to a local newspaper. The City Evening News of Jilin reported that the restaurant had put up a sign saying, “Japanese […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: A total of 18,130 trademark infringement and counterfeiting cases including 2,451 foreign related cases were dealt with in the first half of this year by China’s administrative authorities for industry and commerce (AICs) at all levels throughout the country, said a senior Chinese official in Beijing on Monday. Li Dongsheng, vice minister of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNN: China’s economic growth will slow to 8.6 percent in the third quarter and to 8.2 percent in the fourth amid government efforts to make growth more sustainable, the China Securities Journal quoted a think-tank as predicting. That would take full-year growth to 8.8 percent, significantly lower than 9.5 percent seen last […]
Read MorePhoto series: my impression of Shanghai, by fushengdashi, from bbs3.news.163.com.
Read MoreFrom LOCAL 8 :: KFMB Stations, San Diego, California: An explosion in a coal mine Monday in China’s far west killed 41 people, with another 42 still missing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The blast occurred at 2:30 a.m. in the Shenlong Coal Mine in the Xinjiang region, when about 87 miners were working, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via deepikaglobal.com: China has arrested more than 100 people in connection with a clash over village land in northern Hebei province that left seven people dead and wounded 48, the China Daily newspaper said today. Hundreds of thugs armed with pipes, scythes, hunting rifles and other weapons attacked villagers squatting on the planned […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily, via China Economic Net: Nearly 600 years ago, 20 Chinese sailors swam ashore an island off Kenya’s east coast, having escaped from a shipwreck. They went on to marry local women and convert to Islam. Now a 19-year-old girl who claims to be one of their descendants has come to China […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Three members of the Bush Cabinet are here today, trying to patch up economic relations. It’s not going to be easy. In conversations in China this past week, I heard the muddle-through-uneasily forecast. And I heard the downward-spiral theory. The downward spiral starts with China’s cooling economy. Slower growth is expected […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country will prioritize China over Japan as the recipient of oil supplies from a pipeline project linking eastern Siberia with the Russian Far East, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported yesterday. Putin made the remarks during a news conference after the three-day summit of the Group […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese legislature on Sunday released its draft law on property rights in full text to general public for soliciting revision opinions. The draft law on property rights, with five chapters and 268 items, had been deliberated for three times by lawmakers by the end of June. Citizens could offer their opinions on the […]
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