After a pilot launched in 2008, research for the landmark China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) began in 2011 with support from Peking University, the National Science Foundation of China, and the World Bank....
Read MoreThe following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: Regarding the recent spate of school indecency cases, the media should...
Read MoreIn what could be the largest ever Chinese takeover of an American company, pork producer Shuanghui International has reached a deal to buy Smithfield Foods, a Virginia-based food conglomerate. From the New York Times: If...
Read MoreFormer U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson announced her new role as Apple’s vice president for environmental initiatives this week. As Brian Fung points out at the National Journal, it seems likely that...
Read MoreA cross-Pacific controversy recently erupted surrounding a recurring column published on the English- and Chinese-language websites of CCP mouthpiece People’s Daily. Originally titled “Dishonest Americans”...
Read MoreA kerfuffle between a Global Times journalist and a reporter in his hometown has turned up the heat on the state newspaper. Global Times English writer Zhang Zhilong called China Business News’ Wang Wai in Xi’an when his mother...
Read MoreChinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s new film, A Touch of Sin (天注定) screened at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. While it lost the festival’s top prize to French-Tunisian director Abdellatif...
Read MoreFor his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab comments on the situation for freedom of expression under the new administration of Xi Jinping. One lone pen wanders among a crowd of censors’...
Read MoreAt Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson describes Chinese companies’ growing interest in “big data”, which has been described in the West as “A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and...
Read MoreWednesday was the 60th anniversary of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s historic climb to the top of Qomolangma, or Mount Everest, whose summit is neatly bisected by the border between China and Nepal. China Daily marked...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal examines the global trade in fake, counterfeit and otherwise substandard malaria medication, in which China and particularly Guangzhou’s African community appear to play a substantial part. From...
Read MoreAn online scuffle between Global Times reporter Zhang Zhilong and Wang Wai of Xi’an’s China Business News has highlighted the newspaper’s status as a nationalist bogeyman on China’s media scene. From Amy...
Read MoreNPR’s Louisa Lim interviews graphic novelist Xie Peng, whose first novel, “Darkness Outside The Night,” is described as, “a psychological journey into the world of young Chinese,” reflecting the...
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