From the Guardian: …Something momentous has just happened: Penguin Modern Classics has for the first time allowed a work of 20th-century Chinese fiction on to its list. After skulking for decades in small, academic or, more disastrously, communist Chinese presses (the threadbare Panda Books), translated fiction from China has, 50 years after a similar gesture […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily has given their take on Google’s entry into China: Signs have shown that the once arrogant Google has paid more and more attentions to Chinese market. Sources from the company say Google has gained approval from Chinese government to put up branches in China. The office location in Shanghai has been fixed. Google […]
Read MoreWorking girls near the Shanghai Train Station, by Xie Haitao, via Yecao.net
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via KNEB: Hundreds of Chinese farmers protested in a Beijing suburb on Thursday after being forced from their land to make way for an Olympic stadium, the latest in a wave of disputes over property rights. Makeshift signs reading “Support the Olympics, resettle the farmers who have lost their land!” were strung up […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: When Chinese government officials confiscated 906 books that Wang Yi had privately printed to give to friends across the country, it seemed unremarkable in a country where censorship is pervasive and rarely challenged. But for Wang, a law lecturer and writer with a reputation for trenchantly criticizing the government, the […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: After weeks of ignoring them, the Australian government is taking seriously claims by Chinese defectors that China’s intelligence services have up to a thousand spies actively working in the country.
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Health workers in Gejiu offer tests for H.I.V. and dispense methadone to drug users, as well as counseling and support for anyone with H.I.V. or AIDS. One group in the city has opened a drop-in center for parents of drug users to exchange information about how to prevent H.I.V. The […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Sandiego.com: Human Rights Watch says China should stop harassing AIDS activists. The group warned that Beijing’s heavy-handed methods of controlling information about the disease could hinder efforts to stop its spread. “In a 57-page report, Human Rights Watch called on China to remove restrictions on private groups that work with AIDS patients […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: “In China today, cosmetic surgeons can change a face beyond recognition – and the police are going to have to take notice,” a highly qualified Shanghai plastic surgeon told Asia Times Online. Before long, he expects, anyone who wants to significantly alter his or her appearance will first have to register with […]
Read MoreFrom SFGate.com: The Chinese government enacted a series of labor laws in 1992, 1994 and 1999 that strengthened the rights of workers and made legal challenges easier. Since the 1990s, it has also permitted the introduction of locally run organizations that advocate everything from environmental protection to labor rights. “Many young people think we should […]
Read MoreFrom the Kansas City Star: U.S. policy assumes that free trade benefits all who engage in it… Today, that concept is being questioned as never before. China’s rapid rise is feeding a common fear: that developing nations led by China and India may out-compete the world for high-tech jobs and keep the low-skill, labor-intensive manufacturing […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: In “going global”, we should stress introducing traditional Chinese culture, especially new Chinese culture. It is totally necessary to carry forward the fine traditions of the Chinese culture to let the world appreciate the permanent charm of the longstanding traditional Chinese culture. At the same time, we should also stress […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: China’s eastern province of Shandong has called for overseas investment in up to six new railway lines, opening the way for what analysts say would be the first wholly foreign-owned track to be laid since the 1949 communist revolution. The Shandong lines are among several railway projects across China opened to […]
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net: Theory of modern economics holds that, unemployment can be divided into 3 categories: capacity unemployment, frictional unemployment and structural unemployment. Structural unemployment is mainly generated when the change of economic structure (including industrial structure, product structure and area structure, etc.) comes into being, yet the knowledge, skills, conceptions and regional distribution […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune, via A Glimpse of the World: No one in this city has any illusions about enjoying a democratic system of government. Nonetheless, the current campaign for the “election” of a new chief executive is a curious spectacle, one that mixes a sense of unseriousness and good humor with some slightly […]
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