Stories about China from February, 2007
China: alternative voice about Tibet
Granite Studio blogs about a debate about the historical status of Tibet: professor Ge Jianxiong from Fudan University argues that despite the continuing official stance of the CCP, Tibet has in fact not always been a part of China.
China: Pearl River Cancer zone
Onemanbandwidth retells a story about a victim of cancer in Pearl River Delta, a most industrialized area in China: Like the Mississippi Delta, the Pearl River Delta is in the midst of a class four silent storm. It is a cancer zone. It is the dumping ground for every industrial...
China: The Apprentice
The Beijing version of The Apprentice is upcoming in summer. According to Bill Zhang from DANWEI, the show will cater more to the tastes of the Chinese audience than other reality shows.
Senegal: Poor Working Conditions for Workers at a Chinese Owned Factory
Blog Politique du Sénégal outlines (Fr) poor working conditions for Senegalese workers at Henan Chine, a chinese-owned factory in Senegal: “Holidays are not paid, social contributions are not made even though they are withheld from salaries.” Adds the blog: “Can things be any different given the rights (or non-rights) of...
China: Lunar New Year Evening Gala
Weiai Xu from Ohmynews explains about the social and cultural meaning of CCTV Lunar New Year Evening Gala in mainland China. While ESWN translates an article from Southern Metropolis Daily on the decline of the Gala: The Impossibility of the Spring Gala Festival to Please Everyone Reveals A Changing China.
China: post-Deng 10 years
Han Song blogs about the unresolved issues 10 years after Deng Xiao Ping's era (zh), including of democratization, polarization of rich and poor.
China: MTV
An interview with a Hong Kong MTV director, Kahing Chan, who works in China MTV now. The interview touches about issues such as MTV style, censorship, future trend.
China: Blood Money
Toadi from interlocals.net has translated a recent report from Huaxia Times(zh) on the operation of a blood collection station in Shanxi where blood plamas is extracted from rural pleasants like a factory to supply a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Beijing.
China: Sexologist shuts up
Renowned Chinese sociologist Li Yinhe announced last week that she had been told in no uncertain terms, by people whose identity she declined to identify, to shut up. A longtime fixture of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Li is known mostly for her liberal attitudes towards a whole range...
China: Aesthetics of Power
Chong translates a cultural critics Zhu Dake's comments on Zhang Yimou's film (director of the Curse of the Golden Flower) and the aesthetics of power that colours Chinese modernity: It is a problem of Chinese culture. We have a passion for sickness and aesthetics of power rather than ordinary people's...
China: cycling with goods
Onemanbandwith puts up a series of photos to show how people carry a dozen pigs, tens of chicken, hundreds of eggs, etc in bicycle or motor cycle.
China: the 10th anniversary of the death of Deng Xiaoping
Positivesolutions blogs about how China Daily plans for the 10th anniversary of the death of Deng Xiaoping. The blogger feels that, under the present context, the China Daily story looks at best unfortunate, and at worst deeply cynical.
China: greatfirewallofchina.net
A new website www.greatfirewallofchina.net has been set up for testing whether a url is blocked in China or not.
China: greenify
Peijin Chen from Shanghaiist shows how local governments “greenify” the landscape.
China: Valentines Day Caption Contest
Onemanbandwidth holds a caption contest of a striking photo which puts soldiers and heart together.
China and Hong Kong: Ai Xiao-ming
An interview with mainland China independent film maker Ai Xiao-ming on the Vagina Monologue at interlocals.net.
China: Li Yinhe fires back
Peijin Chen from Shanghaiist translates a post from Southern Metropolis entitled “A China This Big Cannot Tolerate Even One Li Yinhe?” The article is not only about Li, but also about freedom of speech.
China: don't shit
Chiao blogs a photo taken outside a Beijing bar which listed out various regulations, including: don't shit in our tiolet but U can pee…
China: freedom and liberal
Li Yinhe comments that the word “自由” (liberal and freedom) is too negative in China because of various political campaign agains “liberalism”. She hopes people can slowly make it a positive term (zh).
Caribbean: China or Taiwan revisited
“CARICOM countries would benefit more from a trade, aid and investment treaty with China that is collectively negotiated and that takes full account of the peculiar development needs of each of them,” writes Sir Ronald Sanders in an article continuing the discussion of the relative benefits, for Caribbean territories, of...
China: rescuing cats
Ai wei wei blogs about a rescuing cats action in Tianjian. More than 400 cats were rescued from the hand of illegal cat trader (zh). Some of the photos can be found here.
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