The Grand Canal: China’s Ancient Lifeline
Veteran China journalist Ian Johnson, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his coverage of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, recently spent two weeks aboard a barge on China’s Grand Canal. In a feature for National...
Read MoreChina Still King of the Global Counterfeit Trade
According to a new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, 68 percent of all counterfeit goods seized globally between 2008 and 2010 were manufactured in China. Quartz reports: Counterfeit goods make up about 2% of world...
Read MoreDrawing the News: Tributes, Tears, and Tricks
The latest illustrated commentary on the Chinese Internet. Click any image to launch gallery view. Weibo has been flooded with condolences for Lü Lingzi, the Chinese graduate student who died in the bombing at the Boston...
Read MoreSensitive Words: HK Paper Takes Readers for a Ride
As of April 19, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Hong Kong Paper Takes Readers for a Ride: Ta Kung Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper backed by the Chinese Communist...
Read MoreFree Trade and China’s European Playbook
China signed a free trade agreement with Iceland on Monday, its first such deal with a European country, in a move that The New York Times’ David Jolly reported will help China’s push for influence in the Arctic. For...
Read More“China’s Own Subprime Mortgage Crisis”
Credit Rating agencies have taken action on China over the past two weeks, expressing concern over the risks posed by excessive government borrowing, as Fitch cut its long-term local currency rating and Moody’s lowered its...
Read MoreWhy is China Still Friends With N. Korea Anyway?
North Korea’s annual saber-rattling has long frustrated the world, and has also made the belligerent nation an international laughingstock. When the country stepped-up its threatening rhetoric last month, western media...
Read MoreInfo Emerges on Boston Bomb Victim Lü Lingzi
More information has emerged regarding the Chinese national and Boston University graduate student who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday and mourned widely by her compatriots on weibo. For the New Yorker,...
Read MoreTa Kung Pao Apologizes for Fake Xi Jinping Taxi Story
On Thursday, the pro-Beijing, Hong Kong-based newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported that President Xi Jinping had surreptitiously taken a cab ride in Beijing last month and recounted the cab driver’s recollection of their...
Read MoreExtreme Poverty in China Crashes Since 1981
While China’s severe income inequality has become an increasingly prominent issue in recent months, new estimates from the World Bank on extreme poverty around the globe (PDF) show another side to the country’s...
Read MoreNetizen Voices: New Agency Muffles Chinese Press
Weibo and other social media have allowed journalists to skirt press censorship, posting information about the Wenzhou train crash, the Southern Weekly protest, and other major events on their personal accounts. Media...
Read MoreChina Gains Influence in Arctic Region
This week in Beijing, during a visit from Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland became the first country in Europe to sign a free-trade pact with China. The agreement is aimed at assisting the recovery of...
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