Early Monday, Xinhua reported that the GDP for the second quarter had slowed to 7.5%, as many economists had expected: CHINA'S Q2 GDP GROWTH EASES TO 7.5 PCT— Xinhua News Agency (@XHNews) July 15, 2013 Reuters earlier...
Read MoreIan Johnson reports for a New York Times series on mass migration in China that a 200 billion dollar project will relocate 2.4 million farmers from the Shaanxi mountains to towns that have been “built from scratch on...
Read MoreA slideshow in National Geographic depicts life in a Miao village in Guizhou which carries on a tradition of gun ownership and use, a rarity in China. From the introduction: The population of Biasha is ethnically Miao, one of 55...
Read MoreThe death toll of this week’s flooding and landslide in Dujiangyan City, Sichuan continues to climb, with 43 now reported dead and dozens more still missing. From CNN: Some 118 people across Dujiangyan City — mostly...
Read MoreA report on The World discusses the Chinese tradition called “zuo yue zi”, when women enter a month of bed rest with their babies after giving birth. Ruth Morris reports that in China’s expanding confinement...
Read MoreTea Leaf Nation’s Rachel Lu reports that the Internet is in an “uproar” over yesterday’s execution of “China’s Madoff”, Zeng Chengjie, a once highly regarded rags-to-riches real estate...
Read MoreBrook Larmer at The New York Times looks into the increasing zeal for golf in Mainland China: The People’s Republic might seem an unlikely incubator for golf prodigies. Chairman Mao, after all, banned the game in 1949 as so much...
Read MoreA Chinese teenager has died from wounds sustained in the crash of Asian Airlines flight at San Francisco International Airport last Saturday. She is the third fatality from the flight; all three of those killed were students...
Read MoreAmidst speculation earlier this year over whether China is finally growing frustrated with their longtime ally North Korea, Cary Huang at South China Morning Post explains that regional diplomacy in the area is a complex affair...
Read MoreAlthough some believe that Xi Jinping’s recent consultation with retired Party leaders on the current leadership’s anti-graft campaign is a sign that incumbents lack the political will to push through reforms in the...
Read MoreJeffrey Wasserstrom, professor of Chinese history and author of several books on China, tries to see the silver lining in recent gathering clouds, by showing that bad news for others can be good news for China’s...
Read MoreThe issue of so-called leftover women, or women who remain unmarried in their late 20s, is again in the media spotlight thanks to a bilingual book by Joy Chen titled, “Do Not Marry Before Age 30.” American Public...
Read MoreScientists in China are working to save the world’s largest freshwater turtle, which is on the verge of extinction, with only four known to be alive. Once prevalent in the Yangtze River and other parts of China and...
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