The vast majority of China’s more than 210 million Internet users are under 30 years old. They are creating an online world that is openly critical of the Chinese government. When the country was paralyzed by winter storms...
Read MoreOverseas political commentator Liang Jing wrote following essay, thanks to Dr. David Kelly for the translation: China’s 2008 snow storms are still far from approaching an end: tens of millions of farmers in mountain...
Read MoreOverseas political commentator Liang Jing wrote following essay, thanks to Dr. David Kelly for the translation: A very important item of information spread around Beijing’s dining and mahjong tables during Spring Festival...
Read MoreGuangzhou-based writer and blogger Hengjun Yang (杨恒均) wrote the following post on his blog, translated by CDT’s Linjun Fan. I had to exit the highway because of a traffic jam on my way back to Guangzhou after a trip to...
Read MoreHarvard Business School Professor Tarun Khanna’s new book “Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours ” is a comparative book on the different business landscapes of...
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Earthtimes.org : In his dim two-room flat, Huang Renzhong showed a visitor a Mickey Mouse statuette and explained how creating Disney figurines during 15-hour work days in a grim factory led to a $90,000...
Read MoreFrom Radio Netherlands Wordwide: “It’s the hundreds of thousands of Chinese bloggers who are the most reliable eyes and ears in China,” says Xiao Qiang , professor of journalism at the University of California...
Read MoreNew rules aimed at regulating online video on the Chinese internet, implemented last week, may cut down on embarrassing episode’s like Hu Ziwei’s outburst at the unveiling of the new CCTV sports channel (posted widely on video sharing sites like Tudou), but some worry such efforts to control online will clash with the increasingly global concerns of the country’s swelling middle classes.
Read MoreAn editorial in the Houston Chronicle takes China’s press freedom to task: While China’s booming economy and rising standard of living will be showcased at the upcoming Summer Olympics, there is a dark face of the...
Read MoreThe Economist reports on China’s rapid Internet growth and the unique habits of Internet users there: That such a big, increasingly wealthy and technologically adept country has embraced the internet is no surprise, but it...
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