From today’s New York Times: China’s growing material wealth has eluded the countryside, home to two-thirds of its population. But there is a bull market in sects and cults competing for souls. That has alarmed the authorities, who seem uncertain whether the spread of religion or its systematic repression does more to turn peasants against […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via China Study Group: “Ideological education will be stepped up among Communist Party members after internal surveys revealed “shocking” findings on their commitment and discipline. ……The nationwide survey identified problems such as wavering faith, a lack of focus and loose organisation. Its recommendation for a party-wide education programme was […]
Read MoreVia the China Study Group, the South China Morning Post published a story on “a showdown between the mainland’s traditional union and an American corporate giant underlines the radical changes occurring in the workplace.” It is a battle between the world’s largest retailer and the national trade union of one of its fastest growing markets. […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: China’s big appetite for budding sales combined with major loans from its highly centralized banking system is one form of the expression “market Leninism,” used by Perry Link of Princeton University to describe China’s hybrid red capitalism. “From the beginning we wanted the largest shopping center in the world,” says […]
Read MoreAlso from Xinhuanet: “China will adopt new standards to calculate and register its verified oil and natural gas reserves to get accurate data. The calculation will be based on the Classification of Resources and Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas, a new national standard that was implemented beginning Oct.1, Vice Minister of Land and Resources […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “To cope with crippling energy shortage, China launched a comprehensive energy saving plan Tuesday, effective from now to 2020. The plan is the biggest and most ambitious one of its kind in China’s history, said Zhao Jiarong, director of the department of environment resources conservation under the National Development and Reform Commission at […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: Sony Pictures TV said it has formed a joint venture with Hua Long in China to develop Chinese-language television projects including sitcoms, drama series and movies. This is the first development to arise out of the government’s recent decision to allow overseas investors to buy stakes in Chinese television companies. Viacom and Disney […]
Read MoreAlan Stone, a professor of law and psychiatry at Harvard, wrote a commentary in Psychiatric Times about the psychiatric abuse of Falun Gong members in China. Dr. Stone was appointed as a member of a task force organized by the World Psychiatric Association and responsible for investigating political misuse of psychiatry in China, including against […]
Read MoreWhat happened to the persons who spread paint on Mao’s portrait during the student protests in 1989? Read about their plight here.
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “Chinese police have cracked down on 1,045 drug gangs, arresting 10,537 suspects and seized 6.27 tons of illegal drugs since Aug. 1, the government said Wednesday. Drug-related funds of 77.85 million yuan (9.38 million US dollars) were also seized in the four-month anti-drug campaign, said Chen Yicun, deputy-director of anti-drug department under theMinistry […]
Read MoreForeign TV companies, including HBO, Nickelodeon and National Geographic, are moving quickly to take advantage of new relaxed rules in China allowing foreign investment in content production: “Most of the partnerships are seizing on new rules that go into effect next week allowing foreign firms to own up to 49 percent of joint ventures engaged […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: “Since China’s annexation of the Xinjiang-Uighur autonomous region in 1950, Beijing has pursued policies that have put considerable pressure on the local environment. This western region, which borders Central Asia, is home to China’s main nuclear testing site. Pollution does not respect political boundaries, which is why the impact of the 42 […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “An Aids prevention campaign distributing free condoms on Chinese campuses has been halted by authorities at Beijing’s top two universities. Administrators at Peking University and Tsinghua University said the campaign was unacceptable. It is a sign of how Aids prevention work on the mainland is being hampered by bureaucracy and traditional taboos. ” […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post, via MSNBC: “As a growing economy produces new wealth and a spreading middle class in China, the epochal Cultural Revolution has receded to the distant past in just one generation. The millions of urban youths who were forced to abandon their books and live their teenage years with peasants have grown into […]
Read MoreWal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has conceded to Chinese government demands that it allow branches of the All China Federation of Trade Unions to operate in its China stores. The superstore recently announced plans to open ten new stores in China. The ACFTU, a Communist Party controlled organization, had threatened to sue Wal-Mart if it […]
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