· January, 2006

Stories about China from January, 2006

China, Korea: Mandarin Required

The Asia Pages asks: “Who needs to study Mandarin?” While China's rise is important and far-reaching, she admits, Mandarin is difficult for Westerners to learn and Chinese in business meetings...

18 January 2006

China, Thailand: Free Trade Defenders

Bangkok Pundit rebuts local Thai newspaper editorials that argue that Thailand's free-trade agreement with China has been disastrous. “For China, Thailand has always had a large trade deficit with China...

18 January 2006

China, Vietnam: Character-less

Pinyin News translates comments by a Chinese writer who claims that the foundation for Vietnamese culture is “extremely superficial” since Vietnam gave up writing Vietnamese in Chinese characters.

17 January 2006

China: Coverage of the Zhongshan Incident

EastSouthWestNorth posts selections from English-language and Chinese-language (translated into English) coverage of the “Zhongshan incident” — a clash over the weekend between protesting villagers and local authorities in Guangdong province.

17 January 2006

News From Chinese Blogosphere

Blogger Movie: the first short DV movie that is produced and casted by Chinese bloggers is under way for public show, named “A Hard Day's Night”(Or Adventure Of XiaoQiang). The...

14 January 2006

China: Three Kinds of Bloggers

EastSouthWestNorth translates a Yazhou Zhoukan article describing “three kinds of Chinese bloggers” — the angry youth, the petit bourgeois, and the commercial blogger.

13 January 2006

China: Confucian Confusion

China Herald and danwei ridicule a press release that both received touting a new book about Chinese consumers. The release contained “12 Facts about the Confucian Consumer.” Writes Fons: “Confucius...

13 January 2006

China: The Art of No

Talk Talk China ponders customer service in China, which hasn't improved despite the booming economy. He reflects on asking for a bar of soap right behind the counter and being...

10 January 2006

China: Blogger Movie

China Top Blog tantalizingly gives us a shot of a movie Chinese bloggers are shooting on their own. They're dressed as policemen. This will be interesting.

10 January 2006

China: Cat Meat

Imagethief has a post about the discovery that cat meat is being served in some Shanghai restaurants: “China is the land of the food scandal, which makes any trip to...

10 January 2006

China: Panda Economics

An animal researcher in Taiwan concluded that the island should no longer accept artificially bred pandas from China since their rate of survival is so low. Sun Bin talks about...

10 January 2006

Taiwan: One China Revisited

the leaky pen explains his doubts about the U.S.'s one-China policy. “As support for the one-China policy, many pro-China folks in Taiwan and abroad like to use the argument that...

9 January 2006

Cooking up the World!

How many people that are lactose-intolerant do you know? Well, I have good news for them: “Raw Milk”. Verdant San Francisco tells us his story about how he became vegan...

7 January 2006

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Oiwan Lam
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