Hua Xinmin, an urban preservationist and daughter of architect Hua Lanhong, wrote the following piece in Southern Weekend about the problems with the current urban planning policies in China which are allowing the historical parts of cities to be destroyed while also ruining large swaths of arable land (original Chinese version here). Thanks to David […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Listen to the apostles of free trade, and you’ll learn that once consumer choice comes to authoritarian regimes, democracy is sure to follow. Call it the Starbucks rule: Situate enough Starbucks around Shanghai, and the Communist Party‘s control will crumble like dunked biscotti. As a theory of revolution, the Starbucks rule […]
Read MoreFrom The Chicago Tribune, via RedOrbit: The Country’s Internet Community Expands, but the Boundaries of Where It Can Go Are Hazy at Best One week, one Web, two very different outcomes. An angry Chinese father posted his tale of a vacation gone wrong and triggered an Internet uproar that ended last week when the government […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel: They represent workers without rights, autistic children and the environment. The Communist Party eyes them suspiciously, but allows them to exist — so long as they make no political demands. China’s nascent non-governmental organizations are beginning to help those left behind by the country’s economic boom. Death wafts from the White River, which […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: India is Asia’s tortoise, plodding along as China races off with a leading chunk of the world’s direct foreign investment. Its infrastructure is an embarrassment, its bureaucracy a major economic headwind and its crushing poverty a reminder of challenges facing the world’s second-most populous nation. For all its warts, India boasts a […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune, via centredaily.com: The residents of Golden Lands, Life Gallery Townhouse and New Health Gardens left the heart of Beijing in search of just what their high-priced new addresses suggested: space, class and clean living. But it wasn’t long before people began noticing a sharp metallic odor in the wind, which scratched […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: …Why does the US hope to promote at least the constituent elements of civil society, including freedom of speech, freedom of association, transparency and accountability? The spread of civil society in East Asia over the past several years has coincided with stability in the security and economic realms. In line with this […]
Read MoreFrom Foreign Policy: The recent democratic revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kirgizstan sent small tremors through China’s leadership. To avoid its own “color revolution” Beijing is now quietly cracking down on those who would dare to show dissent. Its primary target? China’s civil society.
Read MoreFrom Baltimoresun.com: It was on the Internet that anti-Japanese sentiments coalesced into a real-world movement, generating huge street demonstrations in Chinese cities last spring. And it was on the Internet that a routine car accident, in which a BMW struck and killed someone, became a flash point for angry debate about China’s growing divide between […]
Read MoreTime Magazine has a cover story “China’s New Revolution,” accompanied by several articles and features about China, including: Cover Story: Small World, Big Stakes The U.S. and China are intimately linked–for better or worse. Can we make room for each other? The Last Frontier Almost anything goes these days–but you still can’t oppose the Communist […]
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