On Open Democracy, Hu Xingdou, professor of economics at the Beijing Institute of Technology, writes about the reasons why it is difficult to break out of the cycle of poverty in China: In China, the cycle of poverty is due to...
Read MoreChina Geeks translates a post by lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan about a visit he received from officials after writing about a petitioner who was charged with extortion and blackmail: I said, if the media wants to pay attention and...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on the upheaval at the ground-breaking financial magazine Caijing: Caijing, the highly respected Chinese business magazine, has been thrown into turmoil after 11 high-ranking business executives...
Read MoreIan Buruma is a professor of human rights at Bard College and the author of, most recently, “The China Lover.” From LA Times: Hong Huang is a round-faced, expensively dressed media mogul who runs a string of trendy...
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Advocacy: 2009 is a political sensitive year in China. Apart from the 60th anniversary of PRC, it is also the 20th anniversary of Tienanmen Massacre and the 50th anniversary of Dalai Lama’s exile....
Read MoreJerome Cohen, a professor of law at New York University, takes a look at the PRC’s legal system at the East Asia Forum. Cohen comments that while the PRC has made impressive strides in the area of legal reform, problems...
Read MoreOn the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples’ Republic of China, Dinah Gardner of Al Jazeera writes about prognostications of what China would be like if there was no Mao Zedong. Statements include: Ai Weiwei...
Read MoreState-controlled Chinese phone company, China Mobile, has changed customer’s ring-back tones to a patriotic song for the October 1st holiday. The song, sung by Jackie Chan, is the patriotic song called “Guojia”...
Read MoreAccording to the Global Times, Mao Xinyu has not been promoted to military general, as was reported in a number of other newspapers. (H/T Shanghaiist) Reports that Chairman Mao’s only grandson was promoted to the rank of...
Read MoreSarah Palin, the former Alaska Governor and U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate, delivered her first public address abroad in Hong Kong, where she delivered her thoughts on China’s rise. From the Wall Street Journal: She...
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