From Brad Setser’s Web Log: So, is the Bush Administration for bashing China or against it? Let no one think the Bush Administration doesn’t occasionally try to have it both ways.
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: In “Shanghai Dreams” by the Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, the focus is on the uprooted lives of a generation that moved from Shanghai in the 1960s to work in the undeveloped Guizhou Province. The Chinese government under Mao, fearing conflict with the Soviet Union, relocated factories inland to make up […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Interest in art collecting is growing in Shanghai and neighbouring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, said Li Lei, vice-president of the Shanghai Institute of Oil Painting and Sculptures and one of the organizers of “Art Shanghai,” which begins today. The four-day fair includes more than 6,000 works by Western artists and some Chinese […]
Read MoreSalon has an interview with Rachel DeWoskin, author of Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China: This month, DeWoskin’s account of her years as a foreign babe — and playing one on TV — hits the shelves. “Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China” is a double […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A landmark survey on violence against children in China shows abuse is more widespread than previously believed and has a lasting effect on mental health… The survey of more than 3,500 adolescents undertaken by the All-China Women’s Federation, Peking University and UNICEF showed more than 50 percent of males taking part and one-third […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China will work to allure more investment from overseas to boost its recycling economy and help develop a pollutant-free new energy, a senior environmental-protection official said here Wednesday… Giving a long list of multinationals engaged in China’s environmental protection business, Pan encouraged foreign companies to invest in this sector that took in a […]
Read MoreFrom Fortune Magazine: China is in shock from becoming so dependent on the world oil market so fast. A dozen years ago it was self-sufficient in oil; now it is the world’s third-largest oil importer. This year China may import half its oil. That’s why the country’s leadership, worried that energy shortages could threaten economic […]
Read MoreFrom Morgan Stanley: Mary Meeker discussed thoughts on the Internet and China at the annual Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA) conference in Santa Clara, California on May 7… Below, we have provided a link...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The Bush administration warned China on Tuesday that its currency policies were distorting world trade, and it brandished the threat of retaliation against the country’s exports if Chinese leaders did not change course in the next year. In language far harsher than it has used before, the Treasury Department declared […]
Read MoreThanks to David Cowhig for sending the following into CDT: Prof. Arienne Dwyer of the University of Kansas just sent me The Xinjiang Conflict: Uighur Identity, Language, Policy and Political Discourse. The book does get into the linguistic weeds a bit, but is worth skimming for those who follow developments in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous […]
Read More“After the school“, by xingying via fengniao.com, from Dandong, Liaoning Province.
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Star Online: China must teach its young people not to let the nation’s growing political and economic might threaten its neighbours, former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said Tuesday. “China’s young must be made aware of this need to reassure the world that China will not turn out to be […]
Read MoreFrom The Daily Yomiuri On-Line: More than 90 percent of people are dissatisfied with Beijing’s handling of anti-Japanese demonstrations in China last month, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey conducted over the weekend. Eighty-five percent said Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should urge Beijing to apologize and pay compensation for the violent protests.
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Bush administration warned China today that its currency policies were “highly distortionary” to world trade and implicitly threatened to retaliate if Chinese leaders did not change course within the next year. In language far harsher than any it has used before, the Treasury Department declared that China’s fixed exchange […]
Read MoreIn the Standard, an article about Hong Kong bloggers, including ESWN and Glutter: There are more than 50 Hong Kong-based blogs that run the gamut from personal to political, that are adding voice to a growing grassroots democracy movement that may be virtual in presence but very real in the belief it represents: that Hong […]
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