Amid the recent swirling news tightening waves, some more discipline with the judicial system, from Xinhua net via Sina.com, translated by CDT: Vice President Cao Jianming of China’s Supreme Court stressed the need to strictly observe news release discipline in courts across the country. Some embargoed items, quite arbitrary in case of ambiguity, include: contents […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Famed comedy filmmaker Feng Xiaogang doesn’t want to be typecast as a director of light fare. So he has made “The Banquet,” a tragedy blockbuster of martial arts, murder, revenge and romance. Reviews, however, are mixed…. The action-packed film, with a budget of 150 million yuan (US$18.75 million), depicts the royal power […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: During a recent interview with foreign reporters, Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, said “China’s economy has been growing at an average annual rate of over 9% during the past three decades. In the last three years, its annual growth rate has exceeded 10%. Many people are asking whether China can maintain sustained and […]
Read MoreFrom Duowei.com: “Studying Mao Zedong made me ‘Shivering All Over Though Not Cold'” by Chen Xiaoya ÈôàÂ∞èÈõÖ, translated by CDT. (Original Chinese text is here.) Ms. Chen, formerly a research fellow at the...
Read MoreFrom CRI English via Xinhua News Agency: Chinese director Jia Zhangke‘sÔºàË¥æÊ®üÊüØԺ⠓Sanxia HaorenÔºà‰∏âÂ≥°Â•Ω‰∫∫Ժ┠(Still Life) was screened at Venice Film Festival Wednesday. Besides, Jia’s another film “DongÔºà‰∏úԺ┠has also been included in Horizons session at the festival. “Still Life” was shot in the old village of Fengjie, which has been destroyed by the building of […]
Read MoreRevived talk of Green GDP with a Reuters story on a new report from the State Environmental Protection Agency: It would cost China about $136 billion, close to 7 percent of GDP, to clean up all the pollution pumped out in the country just in 2004, the national environmental protection watchdog said on Thursday. A […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: The latest incident to outrage China’s Internet users is being dubbed ‘Toiletgate’ (ÂéïÊâÄÈó®) by some Chinese fourm posters. A Taiwanese model named Meng Guangmei (Â≠üÂπøÁæé) who came to the Mainland ten years ago and built a career as a TV presenter and entertainer was invited to be a guest on Taiwanese talk show […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: A Chinese researcher for The New York Times, sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, decided Monday to appeal his conviction, one of his lawyers said. Zhao Yan, 44, who worked in The Times’s Beijing bureau, won a victory on Aug. 25 when a Beijing court dismissed the more […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: A blind Chinese human rights activist whose jailing last month sparked an international outcry has filed an appeal, asserting authorities stifled his defense and apparently coerced witnesses into testifying against him. Chen Guangcheng attracted world attention last year after issuing a report that said officials in east China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: Blogger’s block, we all get it sometimes. Ruthless readers, our editors, don’t have time for excuses. So what’s a blogger to do? Lists! Here are few from the last few days of the Chinese blogsphere, ordered with a certain amount of thematic continuity:… -The internet is now becoming a game between […]
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