Stories about China from May, 2007
China: Three Gorges dam
Zhaoshilong wrote a very elaborated report(zh) on the environmental disasters (earthquakes, drought, warming effect etc.) as a result of the three Gorges dam project.
China: Harmonizing Property Ads
DANWEI puts together and translates reports, commentaries on the recent attempt by Beijing Mayor Wang Qishan in harmonizing property Ads: advertisements should be cleaned up because they revealed a massive wealth disparity and threatened social harmony.
China: Lawsuit Against GFW
A Chinese open-source software programmer is suing China Telecom because his website was blocked by the Great Firewall. This trial will be held in Shanghai at 9:00AM (Beijing time, zone of UMT+8:00) May 29th. The place is No. 611 Ding Xiang Road, Pu Dong New District, Shanghai, China.– Via Ya,...
China: Stock market bubble
Fons Tuinstra from China Herald quotes comment from Hu Shuli, the chief-editor of the famous financial magazine Caijing, about the policies in cooling down of mainland stock market bubble.
Hong Kong and China: June 4 massacre
Imagethief has a reading of a pro-China political party's chairperson, Ma Lik's comment about June 4 massacre: Ma Lik wants not only to redefine the language that is used to describe the Tiananmen Square events, but that he wants to institutionalize that redefinition as a pre-requisite for universal suffrage in...
China: Google a little evil
Onemanbandwidth has a post on Google's policy. In regarding to censorship, it is rather active. The blogger compares the photo search result of Tiananmen / 天安門 from U.S and from China, and the result is completely different.
China: history of Chinese characters
Granite Studio blogs on a recent discovery in the study of Damaidi carvings, which carry symbols that resemble early Chinese writing. If the researchers are correct, then these pictographs would be by far the earliest extant examples of proto-Chinese characters.
China: Property law review
China law blog has a review on the China property law. It is in four parts: 1, 2, 3, and 4.
China: Citizen blogger treading new ground?
With all the hype and money behind web 2.0 citizen media in America, is it possible that one young Chinese vegetable farmer has been able to make more gains more quickly than any Western initiatives have?
China: Harmonious Wording for Advertisement?
Wangxiaofeng criticised [zh] the hypocritical nature of the criticisms towards housing property advertisements which used words like “supreme”, “luxurious”, etc. Can we change the reality by changing the wording of ads?
China: Shenzhen Nailhouse
Zola moved from Guangzhou and carried on his report on nail house in Shenzhen [zh].
China: Internet politics
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translates an interview with Yu Guoming, a vice-dean of the Renmin University School of Journalism and head of that university's Public Opinion Research Institute, on Internet and politics, published at Globe magazine.
China: Genocide Olympics
Imagethief analyses whether the “genocide Olympics” campaign against China's stance in Darfur would be working or not.
China: Delayed reporting
Chris O'Brien from Beijing Newspeak blogs about a recent delayed report by the Chinese government on an outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease in a city in Shandong.
China: New restrictions on Tibet travel
Granite studio points out that the Chinese government has imposed new restrictions for foreigners travelling to Tibet.
China: Internet Stories
ESWN translated a few blog posts about the saving of a blue hair girl by a photographer. There are at least 4 versions of the story. So who can you trust?
China: History Problem
Japan Observer notices that the twenty-first century China has been alienated from its past: The vacuum of the modern past seems to be filled, instead, with the hollowed-out and commercialized vestiges of the imperial past, the heirlooms of China's ancient civilization that the CCP has “naturally” inherited.
China: Zola in Guangzhou
Citizen reporter Zola has travelled to Guangzhou [zh] to cover stories concerning nail house at Li Wan. The house owner has written down his will on the wall of his house to show his determination.
China: The Blame Game
Positive solution comments in details on an article in China Daily which criticised western media reports on China environmental problem.
China: Angry customer sues China Telecom for GFW
Via Fons Tuinstra from China Herald: an angry customer of China Telecom sues the company because their corporate website in the US could not be accessed. A website has been set up with information about the case.
China: Learning from teaching
Onemanbandwidth shared with the readers what he learnt from his teaching in China.
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