From the Standard: The idea of “money first, everything else second” now appears to have affected nearly everyone on the mainland. So don’t be surprised or upset when you find you have to pay a whole lot more for a ticket to visit a World Heritage site in China – or to discover that designation […]
Read MoreFrom CNN’s special report Eye on China, an article about rural discontent and the recent riots in Huankantou: The hardships and resentments felt there — against corrupt local officials, pollution, land seizures, and the growing wealth gap between the urban rich and rural poor — are felt by millions of rural Chinese across the country. […]
Read MoreFrom News.telegraph: Marriage guidance counsellors and their inevitable offshoot, the divorce lawyer, are the latest growth industry to emerge from China’s booming cities. Divorces rose last year too 1.6 million, up by a fifth on 2003. The government and media are now paying agonised attention to the “quicky” divorce and its irresponsible parent, the “flash” […]
Read MoreFrom ETToday: On Monday morning, KMT Chairman Lien Chan met up with the chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), Wang Daohan and presented him with a painting created by the late, former chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Ku Chen-fu. The two men praised the late SEF chairman for […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Visiting Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party Chairman Lien Chan said in Shanghai on Monday that he admires the rapid economic growth achieved by the mainland, and called for concrete measures from both sides of the Taiwan Straits to seek common prosperity. It calls for efforts from both the Taiwan authorities and the Taiwan […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times: It isn’t every day that a university professor goes to a factory in China and enrolls as one of the workforce in order to study the conditions there and the experiences of its workers. But this is what Pun Ngai has done in this remarkable book. Made in China is in […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: Outside this stark, but pastoral monument to the victims of Cambodia’s gory Khmer Rouge years southwest of Phnom Penh, a group of young men played cards recently and listened to Chinese pop music. Music from China seemed a bit incongruous, given that China, along with the United States and the Soviet Union, […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Anti-Japan violence, statements and other developments in China suggest the recent political situation in Beijing has been less stable than outward appearances indicate and that a hidden power struggle may have occurred during the past few weeks of unrest. State-run newspapers in China have recently suggested that the anti-Japan riots across the […]
Read MoreA Child in Red, by Vivian Fung via Flickr
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABCNews.com: Taiwan’s leader on Monday invited rival China to talks under the principles of “peace, democracy and parity,” echoing a call by Taiwan’s opposition leader while on a visit to the mainland. President Chen Shui-bian called on Chinese leaders to begin negotiations shortly after Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan made a similar […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Today: Police guarded streets, parks and other potential protest hotspots in Shanghai and Beijing Sunday morning to head off any further anti-Japan protests after three weeks of demonstrations last month led to vandalism and a diplomatic rift between Tokyo and Beijing. In Beijing, about 200 police officers stood guard at the Hailong Building, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The three faces — English, American, African-American — press against one another in a sisterhood of pulchritude. They are the three graces, Est√©e Lauder’s iconic model trio. The reason you are feeling so lost in translation is that you are seeing them on posters screaming down Nanking Road, the Fifth […]
Read MoreFrom the Detroit Free Press: From violins and pianos, and on to bassoons, guitars, cellos and nearly every other musical instrument, China is taking the global music market by storm. China already makes more violins and pianos than any other nation on Earth, and its production of brass, woodwind and electronic instruments is soaring. Workshops […]
Read MoreFrom Greenpeace via Times Online: Just two weeks after Greenpeace exposed the illegal selling and planting of genetically engineered (GE) rice in Hubei province, a research paper published today in Science magazine describes what appear to be unregulated trials of the same GE rice (Shanyou 63) that Greenpeace researchers found being illegally sold in the […]
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