Joan Dupont: Uncensored: Wang’s ‘Shanghai Dreams’

From 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 […]

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Luo Man and Wang Shanshan: Shanghai interest in arts grows

From 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 […]

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Christine Smallwood: China girl

Salon 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 […]

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Study shows worrying trend of child abuse in China

From 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 […]

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China welcomes foreign investment in environmental protection

From 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 […]

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U.S. Warns China on Currency

From 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 […]

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Yomiuri Shimbun: China’s handling of protests slammed

From 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.

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The blog is mightier than the sword

In 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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