Public Intellectuals in China

From ChinaGeeks:

Every year, the Southern People Weekly compiles a list of top public intellectuals in China. The magazine defines public intellectual as those: 1) with academic background and professional standing; 2) with active participation in the…

Making the Most of Chinese Aid to Africa

From McKinsey Quarterly [registration required for full article]:

The debate over China’s role in Africa continues to rage. One side contends that China is a rapacious neocolonial oppressor, while the other sees it as a miraculous alternative to dec…

Vanishing Grasslands

From Asia Society’s Green China project:

Vanishing Grasslands is a mixed media project documenting desertification in northern China. Over 400 million people in China are being affected by desertification today. Over population, over grazing and…

China Reaps Benefits of Iraq War with Oil Deals

From AP:

From among the most outspoken of critics of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, China has emerged as one of the biggest economic beneficiaries of the war, snagging five lucrative deals. While Western firms were largely subdue…

Beijing Rock Scene Is Inspired by Western Hipster Chic Rather Than the Search for a Deeper Soul

Danwei’s Alice Xin Liu writes on Huffington Post:

It was the first day of summer in Beijing. It also happened to be the May holiday, when Chinese people had three days off in honor of International Workers’ Day. Holiday is a rare treat in …

A New Book on Mao: A Quick Q & A with Author Rebecca Karl

From China Beat:

Rebecca Karl, who teaches at New York University and is known in Chinese studies circles as the author of important studies of nationalism during the final years of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) and the development of Marxist thought b…

Senators Question Administration’s China Policy

From the New York Times:

Even as both economies struggle to recover from the recession, complaints about China have grown: that China gives unfair support to its export-oriented manufacturers, has failed to abide by World Trade Organization agreements…

China’s Tobacco Industry Wields Huge Power

From Didi Kirsten Tatlow in the New York Times:

China has the world’s largest population, so it easily lends itself to superlatives. Even so, its 350 million smokers and the sheer scale of its tobacco industry overshadow others. “The China C.D.C. …

More Than Just a Factory Floor Now

From the Economist blog:

When Google pulled out of China back in March, it must have hoped that other Western technology heavyweights would show a little solidarity. Not that it expected others to follow suit, but at least some declaration of support….

Ang Yuen Yuen: Made in China Remade

From Project Syndicate:

As labor costs continue to climb, is China set to lose its coveted spot as the world’s workshop?
Rising labor costs are inevitable. China’s government introduced tough labor laws and a minimum wage in 2008. Recent policies …

Facelift for Old Summer Palace

From Global Times:

The 303-year-old Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, will have a new theme park and a culture square on its periphery, according to urban plan-ning authorities.
“The adjacent neighborhoods around the Yuanmingyuan Park are …

The (Limited) Rise of Labor in China

From china/divide:

Lots of labor stories in the news these days, the two most popular being Foxconn’s wage hikes and reorganizations, and Honda’s repeated strike problems with its China labor force. It’s enough to make one think that…

Labor Disputes Spread in China

The New York Times:

There were fresh reports on Thursday of strikes at foreign-owned factories in at least five other cities. But all of these strikes appeared to have ended quickly as managers, faced with an acute labor shortage, sought to address wo…

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US Presses China to Rein in N.Korea

From AFP:

The United States is pressing China to rein in North Korea, voicing “dismay” that the Asian power has not put more pressure on its ally as tensions build over the sinking of a South Korean warship.
China has offered condolences o…

Google Says West Should Press China On Censorship

From NPR:

The world’s largest search engine is asking U.S. and European governments to put more pressure on China to stop censoring the Internet.
Google’s top attorney, David Drummond, described the practice as an unfair barrier to free tr…

Honda Set to Resume China Car Output, Labour Unrest Lingers

Reuters reports:

Honda, which sold 17 percent of its cars in China last year, has idled its four local factories on and off since May 24, since a first strike at a wholly owned transmissions maker in the southern city of Foshan.
A second strike, at a…

Comic Strip: Birth of a Fifty Cent Party Member

Netizens first coined the term “Fifty Cent Party” to refer to undercover Internet commentators who were paid by the government to sway public opinion (“fifty cents” is a reference to the alleged pay received per post). Now, howe…

He Weifang: Under the Banner of Strict Professional Ethics

ChinaGeeks has translated an essay by legal professor He Weifang. From their introduction:

On May 14th the Work Group for Education of the Party Committee and the Department of Education of Fujian province issued a new set of regulations concerning

Ezra Klein: Problems Ahead for China’s Banks?

On the Washington Post blog, Ezra Klein interviews Patrick Chovanec, associate professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management:

EK: Let’s talk about China’s stimulus. A lot of people know that they flooded the marke…

Russia and China Leaders to Meet at Security Summit

From Reuters:

The six-nation SCO, led by Russia and China, will meet in the Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent on Thursday, a day after the United Nations Security Council is expected to approve fresh sanctions against a defiant Iran. The regional se…

Ongoing Online ‘Jihad’ Against Korean Pop Fans

From Global Voices:

An online ‘jihad’ reached its peak Wednesday night with massive numbers of World of Warcraft players (”wowers”) swarming popular forums for fans of Korean pop boy bands on Baidu, trying to drown them in virtual noise. A…

Notes on a Conversation: Ian Johnson and Angilee Shah

From China Beat, notes from “a dialogue between Ian Johnson and Angilee Shah. Johnson, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, is author of Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China and A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim…

China: A Wave of Strikes Hits Shanghai

Asia News reports on recent strikes around China:

Fresh strikes have broken out in mainland China, this time in the affluent Yangtze River Delta, where hundreds of workers clashed with police on Monday morning trying to forcibly stop their sit-in outs…

冯永锋：城市内急是水生态失调所致

其实城市的雨水灾难是城市生活者自己制造的。害怕自然的人对雨水同样的害怕，想要自然安全的人想让雨水也变得绝对安全

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