From the Guardian: From the Matrix and Kill Bill to Kung Fu Hustle and House of Flying Daggers, the Shaolin monks have had to watch passively as their trademark martial arts have made millions for film studios in Hollywood and Hong Kong. But now the monks are striking back with a series of big budget […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: A blind Chinese activist who has been at the forefront of a campaign to expose the dark side of the state’s one-child policy went on hunger strike yesterday after he was arrested for trying to launch a class action lawsuit against forced sterilisations and abortions. Chinese Rights Defenders has issued a statement […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: By linking up with China’s second biggest financial institution, the Royal Bank of Scotland has secured a powerful local partner ahead of the opening of China’s fast-growing banking sector next year. Bank of China is the nation’s top foreign exchange lender and one of the big four banks, which together control 60% […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: In autumn and spring, the migration of hundreds of thousands of birds is such a glorious sight that Qinghai Lake draws tourists from all over the world. But after the first mass outbreak of avian flu among wild birds this summer, the resort is attracting attention from a different group of bird […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: More than 1,000 villagers in inner Mongolia took the local communist party chief hostage yesterday in the latest land dispute to rock the Chinese countryside. Amid signs of division in the government about how to handle rural unrest, the residents of Qianjin village have driven off hundreds of armed police and blocked […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: It could have been the scoop of the year: the deputy governor of Henan province had reportedly conspired with a local mayor to have his wife killed and chopped up. If proven, the murder would rank as one of the worst crimes by a senior official for decades. But the story was […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: There are probably very few people outside China who have heard of Pan Yue, but if the planet is to have any chance of avoiding disastrous levels of global warming this is a name that environmentalists should get to know very quickly. Pan is the deputy director of the state environmental protection […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: A media group in China has filmed a soap opera to be broadcast only on mobile phones. Each of the five episodes, about two bikers vying for the love of a beauti ful woman, will last five minutes. There is very little dialogue and a lot of close-ups of characters striking exaggerated […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The Shaki adult toy factory in Shenzhen is an orgy of production. And though nothing could seem less erotic to the workers, their output is testimony to the growing passion of consumers for China’s latest boom industry: sex. The country now provides 70% of the world’s sex toys. While the bulk of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: At a recent lecture at a Beijing university, students politely lambasted this correspondent – and by association all other foreign journalists – for painting too negative a picture of China. “Why,” asked one questioner, “do you keep writing about the Tiananmen Square incident and the Cultural Revolution? The past is the past. […]
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