China Focus: Chinese “Sixth Generation” directors surface

From The People’s Daily Online: The directors’ focus on contemporary society and striking personal style distinguishes them from the Fifth Generation, led by Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, and had made them “underground.” Last year, however, their films started to rise onto the ground from “underground.”

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Bay Fang: The Floating People

From U.S.News & World Report: He has a rice sack for a suitcase and squats on it. He has sun-reddened cheeks and tattered sneakers. He is one of hundreds of migrant workers who crowd the Shanghai Train Station on a sunny, cold afternoon, chatting in different dialects, playing cards, napping with their heads in their […]

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Heather StewartÔºöThe west sees red

From The Guardian Unlimited: Distant, mysterious and authoritarian, China is an ideal scapegoat for politicians hoping to distract attention from the shortcomings of their own economic policies. Washington has preferred to blame China for the gaping US current account deficit instead of cutting back on government spending.

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Katherine Heires: China Bound

From The BusinessWeek Online: More young companies are scaling the Great Wall. It’s not just the push from big businesses. China’s entry into the World Trade Organization and significant reductions to registered capital requirements are allowing more U.S. companies to do business there. And rising Chinese incomes are making a large consumer market even more […]

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SCMP: Activists petition for journalist’s release

From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A group of activists petitioned the central government’s liaison office yesterday calling for the early release of Hong Kong-based journalist Ching Cheong… About 500 people have signed an internet petition calling for Ching’s release during the past week, and the alliance plans to step up the […]

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Geoffrey Lean: Fears that new strain of bird flu will kill millions

From The Independent: International experts fear that bird flu is mutating into a strain that will cause a worldwide pandemic, killing many millions of people after the mass deaths of wild birds in China. Unconfirmed reports say that more than 100 people have also died, suggesting that the virus may have evolved to pass from […]

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Geoffrey York: In China, cigarettes are a kind of miracle drug

From the Globe and Mail: Here’s some exciting medical news from the Chinese government: Smoking is great for your health. Cigarettes, according to China’s tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to prevent ulcers. They also reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost your brain cells, speed up your thinking, improve your reactions and […]

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Xinhua: New history book launched by China, Japan, S.Korea

From Xinhua: Publishers from China, Japan and South Korea have gathered in Beijing to launch the Chinese version of a new textbook that seeks to set the record straight on the region’s history. The book is seen as a response to attempts by right-wingers in Japan to gloss over the country’s wartime atrocities… The book […]

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Shaping China’s Future Power

Three different perspectives on China’s rising power. In the New York Times, Roger Cohen writes: Given China’s size, economic dynamism and evident self-belief, it seems unlikely that it can be dissuaded from the...

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Claire Miller: Fear of Dalai Lama birthday spoilers

From theage.com.au: In espionage terms, it is one of the world’s worst-kept secrets that the Chinese Government keeps close tabs on anything and anyone it suspects might undermine the Communist regime, no matter how trivial the activity. While the focus last week was on claims that 1000 spies are active in Australia, some cultural experts […]

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The Australian: Tiptoeing around China

From The Australian: THE Howard Government’s inept response to the attempted defection of diplomat Chen Yonglin is a reminder of the growing “Chinese problem”: having the future regional hegemony defying the conventions of liberal democracy. At face value there seem to be three imperatives here: that Australia should grant a safe home to the defecting […]

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Geoffrey York: In China, cigarettes are a kind of miracle drug

From The Globe and Mail: Guiyang, China ” Here’s some exciting medical news from the Chinese government: Smoking is great for your health. Cigarettes, according to China’s tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to prevent ulcers. They also reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost your brain cells, speed up your thinking, improve […]

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The Journalists’ Jailer

From The Washington Post: WHO LEADS the world in jailing reporters? That’s an easy one: China has been the champion for the past six years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. At the end of 2004 its count of imprisoned professionals was 42, including several singled out by the two-year-old regime of Hu Jintao. […]

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Antoine Blua: Beijing Looking For Solutions To Energy Concerns

From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Since economic reforms began in 1978, China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has expanded at an average rate of over 9 percent per year. However this economic success has been accompanied by a series of energy concerns — insufficient energy supply, heavy reliance on coal despite its negative environmental impact, and […]

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