The trend in Chinese ideology is going back to harmony (和谐) as a “universal value.” The term “harmonious society” (和谐社会) has been used before by Hu Jintao. As discussed in the fifth annual Beijing Forum...
Read MoreWandering through the Chinese blogosphere, one never knows who you will encounter. Here is a blog titled “Love of Nature,” which contains social commentary mixed with personal memories. Its author did not reveal...
Read MoreThe following is an account of the heart-wrenching experience shared by 40 parents of missing children. After the Olympics and Paralympics had finished, they went to Beijing to petition for help to find their children. Written...
Read MoreBeijing-based legal scholar Xu Zhiyong (许志永) writes on his blog, translated by CDT: Seven-year-old Yang Peiyi sang a lovely song for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. However, audiences all over the world...
Read MoreBao Tong, former top Communist Party aide to the ousted late Chinese premier, Zhao Ziyang, has been under house arrest at his Beijing home for nearly two decades after his boss’s fall from power during the 1989...
Read MoreThe New York Times continues its paper-wide China coverage with a review of the so-called Bird’s Nest stadium by architecture critic Nicholai Ouroussoff: Designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de...
Read MoreResidents of Beijing have noticed their city growing smaller, rather than larger, as the Olympics approach. This strange shrinkage is a result of the pre-Olympics eviction of migrant workers and other “undesirables,” a...
Read MoreFrom AllAfrica, Chinese Investments in Nigeria: (July 3, 2008) In recent times, quite a lot has been said and written about the presence of Chinese investors in Africa . The West is clearly worried not just about the rate of...
Read MoreLin Qiang (林强), the Deputy Inspector of the Sichuan Education Department, is a Party-recognized model cadre and was given the honor of being one of the Olympic torch bearers. But Lin just submitted a letter to Sichuan provincial...
Read More“The Sichuan quake has inspired a powerful, and unpredictable, movement among China’s youth.” Melinda Liu and Mary Hennock writes on the Newsweek website: Youth movements like this are rare events in China. In...
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