In Asia Times, Colin Mackerras reviews a new book, Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland – Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus, a collection of essays edited by S Frederick Starr: “Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland is not the first book to focus on Xinjiang… However, it is the first to take an all-round view on Xinjiang […]
Read More“When the opening lyrics of “Dark Side of the Moon” floated through the air at a Beijing bar on a recent evening, patrons sang along to the Pink Floyd classic. “Breathe, breathe in the air,” they chanted in chorus. They seemed oblivious to the irony, in a city that is fast becoming one of the […]
Read MoreAssociated Press (via Washington Post): “China’s capital saw double on Saturday as Beijing opened its first festival for twins, attracting hundreds of look-alike siblings, a rare sight in a society where birth control rules limit most urban families to one child. Twins in matching cowboy hats, sweaters or scarves mingled, chatted and performed on stage […]
Read MoreFrom the The Goethe-Institute website: “In Berlin on the 2nd of October, 2004, an international jury composed of writers from ten linguistic regions announced the 2004 winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage . The annual Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage was established in 2003 initiated by the […]
Read MoreBeijing University recently notified Professor Jiao Guobiao, who earlier wrote a powerful essay against the Central Propaganda Department, that his course for this semester has been cancelled and that he can no longer advise masters research students. Although Professor Jiao told school officials he would not talk to the media about his situation, he gave […]
Read MoreRadio Free Asia has reported that police in Tibet shot and killed a monk who had demanded medical compensation after being beaten in custody in Machen County, Qinghai Province. “The shooting is said to have occurred at the Darlag (in Chinese, Dari) County police station after a group of monks including She Tse went there […]
Read MoreWashington Post had an article on China at G-7 meeting, and the U.S. approach on currency issues. “China made its debut last night in the club of the world’s leading economic powers, as international pressure mounts to change a decade-old currency peg that critics accuse of giving Chinese products an unfair competitive edge. ”
Read MoreChina said Thursday that it wanted Canada to return the 44 refugees who scaled the fence into the Canadian embassy in Bejing to Chinese soil. The Toronto Star reported that Chinese assistant foreign minister promised the North Korean refugees would be treated “in accordance with international and domestic laws and in the spirit of humanitarianism,” […]
Read MoreAsia Times has two articles about the slowdown in China’s automobile industry. The first, “China’s Auto Industry Slows Down” is here. The second, “Gentleman, Kill Your Engines,” explores the consequences for foreign auto makers who have invested billions of dollars in capturing the China market: “Despite figures showing rising incomes and increased consumer spending, car-sales […]
Read MoreTed Plafker wrote this OP-ED piece on the International Herald Tribune today: “For those who manage China’s economy, or for those who simply bet on it, understanding what is going on can be just as hard as figuring out what to do next. Over the past year, Chinese policy makers have focused on heading off […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: “China pledged to “push ahead firmly and steadily” toward a more flexible exchange rate, yet stopped short of providing a timetable for when it will shift from the decade-old currency peg that has drawn fire from the Group of Seven industrial nations. China has fixed the value of the yuan at about 8.3 […]
Read MoreAsia Wall Street Journal had a very good commentary article on Google’s Chinese dilemma. “Google’s decision to omit sources that the Chinese government doesn’t like from their new Google News China edition means that the U.S. company has agreed to play by Communist Party censorship rules. The question is, at what cost?” “It’s one thing […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: “China’s domain name “.CN” had hit 402,291 by the end of August, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The number of domain names in the world has reached a record 64.5 million, averaging one for every 100 persons. China’s state-level domain name .CN has grown the fastest in the […]
Read More“The economic boom in China is causing concern in the export-oriented economies of Southeast Asia. However, China is taking diplomatic steps to make its expanding economic might less threatening. For decades, Southeast Asian governments worried about only one Chinese export: communist ideology. They blamed China for fostering violent revolutionary parties around the region in the […]
Read MoreThe U.S. government has taken up the case of arrested journalist Zhao Yan, who worked as a researcher for the New York Times. Secretary of State Colin Powell says he raised the case with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing: “‘Yes, I raised the issue of the Chinese citizen who is working for the New York […]
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