From Art Daily: The Ashmolean Museum presents Everyone’s Life is an Epic: New Work by Qu Lei Lei, on view through July 17, 2005. For the first time in the Ashmolean’s series of Chinese exhibitions, a show will be devoted to the paintings of a living artist, Qu Lei Lei. Renowned worldwide, Lei Lei will […]
Read MoreFrom Yomiuri Shimbun, via Kansas City Star: A media blackout over anti-Japanese demonstrations was in effect across China on Monday despite an escalation in the number of demonstrations, and foreign media were kept away from the Japanese Embassy in Beijing after it was pelted with rocks and eggs by protesters over the weekend. Meanwhile, the […]
Read MoreFrom the High Performance Composites: Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Randers, Denmark) is planning to establish a wind blade factory in China after receiving an order from Jiangsu Unipower Wind Power Co. Ltd. for 50 V80-2.0 MW wind turbines. Ordered as part of China’s Rudong Wind Power Concession project, the turbines will have a total capacity […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the westernmost region in China, will invest 13.68 million yuan (1.65 million US dollars) in the coming three years to build a wetland reserve along the Ertix River, China’s only river emptying into the Arctic Ocean, according to the local government. The Keketuohai wetland reserve, located in Habahe […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The Taiwanese press reported on Chen Shui-bian’s presence at the funeral of pope John Paul II: “The Holy See used an alphabetical order of country names for seating arrangements, and they used ‘Taiwan’ to seat President Chen Shui-bian. Chen’s seat was therefore placed on the right side of the church in […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: There could scarcely be a sharper contrast than between the bonhomie displayed by China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao, on his current tour of South Asia and China’s behavior towards its North Asian neighbor, Japan. The anti-Japanese demonstrations during the weekend, and some only slightly less nationalistic outbursts in South Korea, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, agreed on a roadmap to settle a decades-old border dispute on Monday, as the nuclear rivals build a new “bridge of friendship”. Announcing a cooperative and strategic partnership for peace and prosperity, the pair signed several agreements from the border issue, to more […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times, via A Glimpse of the World: The fried pigs livers with yellow wine were my idea – but the inspiration was really down to Yu Hua. In his masterpiece, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, the downtrodden hero, Xu Sanguan, eats the dish in the belief it will restore his strength. So […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via HindustanTimes.com: Japan’s wartime past haunts its relations with its neighbours 60 years later, with Chinese protesters attacking Japanese interests and urging boycotts of its products and with passionate anti-Japanese sentiment in the two Koreas. Japan occupied the Korean peninsula and much of China up to 1945, during which imperial troops forced thousands […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Thousands of villagers rioted in eastern China, injuring dozens of police, after two of about 200 elderly women protesting over factory pollution died during efforts to disperse them, residents and officials said on Monday. The rioting on Sunday in Huankantou village, Dongyang city, in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang coincided with violent […]
Read MoreFrom PTInews: In a bid to further boost booming Sino-Indian trade, China has started renovation of the historic Stilwell Road connecting its Yunnan Province to Myanmar and India, the state media reported today. Chinese...
Read MoreFrom CNN.com: China says Japan is responsible for escalating tensions between the two former rivals after a weekend where tens of thousands of angry Chinese took to the streets.
Read MoreFrom asahi.com Koizumi must send clear message to the Chinese people. Anti-Japan demonstrations accompanied by movements to boycott Japanese products have flared across China. Television footage showed scenes of enraged Chinese youths breaking windows of a Japanese supermarket. Demonstrators carried banners with anti-Japanese slogans. The demonstrations come on the heels of violent protests in South […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: A visit by Taiwanese pro-independence politicians to Japan’s Yasukuni shrine has triggered a heated ideological argument, exposing the historical roots of the island’s confused national identity and highlighting Taiwan’s attempts to take advantage of the rising tensions between Japan and China. Shu Chin-chiang, chairman of the Taiwan Solidarity Union, visited the […]
Read MoreFrom ET Today (Taiwan): Two Chinese media organizations will no longer be allowed to station their staff in Taiwan. This new announcement came from the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) which concluded that the news –as presented by the Xinhua News Agency and the People’s Daily newspaper– is not conducive to the enhancement of understanding between […]
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