Photos from a fellow blogger

Instead of posting news links, here is a group of incredible photos from ESWN’s blog: EastSouthWestNorth: Humanizing China-Part 1. For a change, you can also check out two city photo bloggers: Zboy and Shanghaiphotos.

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China to increase top-level nodes for “dot CN” connection

From Xinhua: “China plans to increase the distribution of top level nodes to smooth the connection with web sites ending with ‘dot CN’ in more regions. The domain name of ‘dot CN’ is the only Internet address system registered and managed by China and is considered a top-level domain name.” Xinhua also reported that “China […]

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Chinese Activist Wins Press Freedom Award

From VOA: “Liu Xiaobo, a prominent Chinese dissident, has won an international award as a defender of press freedoms. The announcement comes as a number of prominent activists in China are being arrested or detained. Despite repeated government efforts to silence him, Liu Xiaobo refuses to back down. The former Beijing University teacher has been […]

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Foreign students flocking to Shanghai

From Big News Network:„ÄÄ”More than 19,000 foreign students have enrolled in Shanghai universities this year, up 40 percent from last year, China Daily reported Wednesday. The figure is expected to exceed 50,000 by 2010, said Zhou Qinjian, a Shanghai Education Commission official. He said China’s rapid economic development and its improving education system were attracting […]

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Spengler: Santa Clausewitz, a minor Chinese god

From the Asia Times online: “Santa Claus, were Christianity to disappear, would live on in China as a minor prosperity god. The Chinese love to shop and have naturalized the American symbol of Yuletide acquisitiveness. America’s contribution to Chinese prosperity goes beyond symbols, though. The United States gave China precisely what it lacked, namely an […]

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Japan asks media not to cover Lee’s visit and upset China

From AFP, via The China Post In a rare step, the Japanese government called Monday on the media not to cover a visit next week by Taiwan’s former president Lee Teng-hui which China has said will jeopardize bilateral ties. “It’s a totally private trip,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda told a news conference. “So, I […]

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Listing rings in media changes: Beijing Youth Daily

From China Daily: “The response was overwhelming for the Chinese mainland’s first media company to list on an international stock exchange. The IPO of the Beijing Media Corp Ltd was covered 422 times after its flotation yesterday on the Hong Kong stock exchange, rising to 50 per cent from its original 10 per cent issue. […]

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Wang Yiwei: China’s defensive realism

From the Asia Times Online: “At first glance, the world was very surprised by the timing of the announcement last Friday that Beijing was starting the legislative initiative of an anti-secession law, as it came after Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian’s pro-independence party and its allies suffered a defeat in Taiwan’s legislative elections on December 11. […]

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Rural Exodus for Work Fractures Chinese Family

Jim Yardley wrote a very good story on the New York Times: Yang Shan is in fourth grade and spends a few hours every day practicing her Chinese characters. Her script is neat and precise, and one day, instead of drills, she wrote letters to her parents and put them in the mail. “How is […]

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House of Flying Daggers panned in China

While Zhang Yimou’s new kung fu epic, House of Flying Daggers, is getting rave reviews as it opens in the U.S., the movie has been largely panned by Chinese reviewers, according to the Guardian: “Although House of Flying Daggers grossed a reasonable 150m renminbi at the box office, newspapers and internet bulletin boards said it […]

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Japan Issues Visa for Ex – Taiwan President

From AP, via the New York Times: “Japan issued a visa Tuesday for former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to visit for the holidays, a Foreign Ministry official said, shrugging off protests by China. The visa was issued by the Interchange Association, which operates as Japan’s representative office in Taipei, Taiwan, the official said, speaking on […]

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2004: China’s coming out party

Mary Hennock wrote this analysis on BBC News: For years, specialist China-watchers have been predicting that the wider world would one day wake up to the country’s global economic influence and superpower potential. 2004 was the year when it happened. The world focused on China’s new-found economic strength as never before. Its thirst for oil, […]

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SCMP on Li Boguang’s arrest

The South China Morning Post yesterday reported the arrest of farmers’ advocate Li Boguang. The article quotes a police official in Fu’an, Fujian as saying, ‘We have reason enough to charge him. I don’t want to tell you what crime. We now are detaining him for 15 days. We can prolong it to one month […]

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