From Newsweek (link): China’s official buzzword these days is “harmony.” Whether the audience is Chinese or foreign, rich or poor, Beijing’s leaders are spreading the message: can’t we all just get along? After becoming president in 2003, Hu Jintao made the pursuit of a “harmonious society” his personal mantra. Last week Prime Minister Wen Jiabao […]
Read MoreFrom UPI (link): China has pledged to issue a blacklist of dishonest academics to stem the tide of false research results and plagiarism among academics and scientists. Science Minister Xu Guanhua vowed he would name and shame guilty researchers, the South China Morning Post reported Thursday. The Ministry of Education said it was conducting its […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media (link): Hundreds of thousands of netizens posted appeals and questions to Wen Jiabao on special bulletin boards prepared by main state media websites in the run-up to the premier’s press conference yesterday. The rare opportunity to make their voices heard by the premier attracted a wave […]
Read MoreThe following is a full list of Zhejiang Province delegates to this year’s annual session of the National People’s Congress, currently underway in Beijing. The names were posted on March 14 by moogee, along with lists of delegates from Hebei, Liaoning and Shanxi provinces, on the SOHO Xiaobao BBS. (Password = 4) (Translated by CDT. […]
Read MoreIn Spiegel Online (link), Andrea Lorenz interviews Chinese economist and reformist Chi Fulin: SPIEGEL: The gap between the rich and the poor is wider than ever, and party leader and head of state Hu Jintao called for the building of a harmonious society. How does he expect such a society to function? Chi: Economic development […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua (link): In Chinese universities, published dissertations closely correlate with a teacher’s promotion, salary and other perks. Instead of placing emphasis on the quality of research findings, the number of books and research papers that have been published is deemed as a benchmark for the successful academic career of a professor. As a result, […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian (link): The US is being swept by a rush to learn Mandarin, the official form of the language used in mainland China. From wealthy New York mothers hiring Chinese nannies for their toddlers, to west coast parents demanding classes from their local schools to a defence department education project in Oregon. The […]
Read MoreThe following post is from the China-based Ah-Q Weekly blog (link: ÈòøQÂë®Âàä), translated and links embedded by CDT; the author’s writing mixes using a sarcastic tone and some real heartfelt words: About the NPC and...
Read MoreThe following was posted on Soho Xiaobao BBS (link) (translation by CDT): This is a collection of twenty independent reports of real cases [of suicide resulting from inability to pay school fees]. Every year, from July to...
Read MoreFrom Time Asia (link): In the fall of 1991, at the age of 18, Yiyun Li reported to the barren city of Xinyang for a year in the Chinese army. The government had decreed that any student bound for Beijing’s Peking University, as Li was, first had to complete a period of military training and […]
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