Stories about China from July, 2006
China: Text book
Joel Martinsen has a post in Danwei on the controversy over Chinese textbook revisions. He puts together various articles and discussions on the recent change of historical perspective.
China: Rock band
Wonwon from Chinatimes puts up a review on the development of rock band music in mainland China in the past twenty years (zh).
Vietnam: Is Vietnam the next China?
The blogger at itsthefinalword links to a post that compares China's growth with that of Vietnam's.
Japan: weather forecast
“Japan is planning to implement a new program that provides forecasts of typhoons, storms, blizzards, droughts and other inclement weather 30 years in advance!” JP reports on this in Japundit.
China: KFC
ESWN translates Hu Jinghua's report in Financial and Economic Times concerning the recently debate about KFC's newly release adverstiment that adopted the image of Seven Swords in CCTV. The ad...
China: Journey to the West
There are some discussions about Spielberg’s plans to remake Journey to the West. However, some worries that western director will turn the Monkey King into his Hollywood cousin, King Kong....
China: How do you say RSS feed in Chinese again?
One day soon, when content flow between Chinese and English websites reaches a reciprocal balance, when newspapers, textbooks and bloggers everywhere go bilingual, how well-positioned will you be? It's not...
China: Blogsphere
Lyn Jeffery in Virtual China reports on China Market research's finding in Chinese blogsphere: “CMR estimates that 80% of Chinese online urban youth 18-25 (50 million people) are actively blogging...
China: cruel news
Zhao mu puts together a bunch of descriptions used by some mainstream newspapers reports to show the indifference and cruelity of news language (zh). For example, to describe the suicidal...
China: tell me what's wrong with China
Last week Danwei‘s Joel Martinsen translated an article from the New Century Weekly by Sun Yafei titled America through Chinese eyes – a columnist living abroad reports on ugly Americans....
China: AIDS orphans
Zhen Jin yan writes about how AIDS orphans (whose parents were diseased by AIDS) in China were rejected by social institutes, such as hospital and orphanage (zh), even though the...
China: death of a mother
ESWN translates a forum post on a new mother leapt to her death 15 days after delivering a baby girl.
China: baidu space
Williamlong has an initial analysis (zh) on baidu space. There are several inadequacies as blog platform, including 1. its encoding system is not UTF-8; 2. very long url; 3. cannot...
China: Visa problem
Ma-yue talks about his experience in visa application to other countries (zh) . He complains that although China is blooming in economic development and considered as a big nation, however,...
China: the most beautiful reporter in China
ESWN puts together forum posts and news concerning how a woman reporter Cao Aiwen put her work aside and tried to rescue a drowned girl. She was then crowned by...
China: reporter sentenced for two years
Glutter puts up the news concerning China government sentenced reporter Li Yuanlong to two years in jail earlier last week (July 13). ESWN translates an article “On Becoming an American...
Hong Kong: patriotic education
The Voyager discusses a news headline in a Hong Kong newspapers: Cutter Youth: No Regrets For Anti-Japanese / Nine Intimidation Letters; Fanatically Patriotic Heart. The news is about a youth...
China: Birthday wish comes true
Hu hao's sister writes in huhaofamily about her birthday and how her birthday wish came true (zh). Hu Hao is back and she thanks all the friends for their suppport.
China: World cup
The World Cup is over. However there are still much discussion about Zidane's head butt. Ah Q magazine comments that Zidane's head butt is a perfect ending of his career...
China: Chinese graffiti
Raymondzhou shows how Chinese graffiti is different from Amercian one.
China: Wu Hao released
Following nearly five months in prison, blogger, documentary maker and American permanent resident Wu Hao has been released, as noted in a July 11 post on his sister Nina's blog:...
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