Stories about China from September, 2006
Belarus: Chinese Language in Minsk Schools
TOL's Belarus Blog reports that the Chinese language has been declared a priority in Belarusian schools by the country's president Aleksandr Lukashenko.
China: managing foreign newswires
Xinhua released regulations regarding limitations on cooperation between Chinese media and foreign newswires yesterday (September 10). ESWN has translated some mainstream reports. China media project has summarized some blog comments on the issue.
China: teacher's death
ESWN translates various reports on the mysterious death of a teacher, Dai Haijing, in Zhejiang, which resulted in a series of demonstrations demanding the police to carry out proper investigation.
China: Mao Who?
Saturday marked the thirtieth anniversary of Mao Zedong‘s death. Like the closeted bones some families would rather just forget about, China seems to be serious about moving on from the helter-skelter days of high Communism, both at The Party level and at the grassroots. Wu Zuolai, whose Sina.com blog was...
China: Don't anger the youth
Trolls with dozens of axes to grind, China's angry youth (愤青) are the single loudest and mobilized group on the internet in China. Nationalist, racist, sexist and more, they embody pretty much every ugly extreme to be found in contemporary China. While most rational netizens ignore them, their dominant online...
China: Press, In Contrast
In the recently high-profiled case of First Financial Daily vs Foxconn, over the former's controversial news report on the latter's alleged Apple Ipod's sweatshop. The dramatical end to the case, in which the two issued a joint statement focussing on mutual understanding and “building harmonious society,” was generally considered as...
China: making sense
Picking up the discussion concerning Meng Guangmei and Toiletgate in DANWEI , Sun bin carries on the discussion to the phenomenon of “Feeling the China elephant” in China-related internet forum and blogs written in English: China is an enormous country, both geographically and demographically. Everyone watching China, including this blogger,...
South Korea: when North Korea falls
Robert Kaplan, a visiting Professor in National Security at the United States Naval Academy, wrote an article at the Alantic Monthly titled as “When North Korea falls”, and pointed out the likely winner is China. The articles has stirred up some discussion among some bloggers. Richardson from the Korea Liberator...
China: CCP and FoxConn
Chong at interlocals.net gives the readers more background about the reconciliation between FoxConn and the 1st Financial Daily: FoxConn's party committee secretrary said, “Party's task is to serve company's production and business.” Last year, the company allocated RMB 8 million to its party committee.
China: Golf court and Peking University
As part of the package to be the first grade international university, Peking University has been proposing to build a golf court. According the Xue yong, the proposal has been banned. But the blogger continues to explain what is the relation between 1st grade university and golf court: “the mission...
Hong Kong: doubts about Ching Cheong Verdict
ESWN translates Next weekly's article on Doubts about Ching Cheong Verdict.
China and Hong Kong: toilet stories
Simon World puts together two toilet stories, one from Beijing (bomb proof toilet) and one from Hong Kong (golden toilet).
China: positive report
Wang Xian-feng explains what is positive report: if we say “coal mine explosion in Shanxi caused 40 death” it is negative report and will have very negative effects on the society. So, how should we change it into positive report? we can change the headline to “coal mine explosion in...
China: defending private education
Recently, the education department claims that the Mencius’ Mother private school in Shanghai is against the spirit of education law. Some of its accusation is concerning its curriculum, i.e. lacking of patriotic education. Xueyong writes in his blog in defence of the school and the development of private eduation in...
China: fragant pears
Photos showing the picking of fragant pears in Xianjiang in the opposite end of China.
China: urban myth?
Dan Washburn in Shanghaiist investigates whether Lonely Planet is actually banned in China, or it is just another urban myth?
China and Hong Kong: Water pollution
Sunfai comments on the T.V news feature on water pollution in Dongjiang (Guangdong province), the river is the source of Hong Kong fresh water. The blogger says that there is a repeated formular in environmental news in Hong Kong: blaming China for everything. However, as a city with 7 millions...
China: How i lost my home
Ai Wei Wei talks about Beijing renovation in preparation for the Olympic, his beautiful traditional courtyard will turn into an artificial theatre, and so will the whole old Beijing city and its people: within one night, all the old courtyard in the district were painted by a gigantic hand with...
China: how to buy an apartment in Beijing
WangXianfeng puts up several proposals on how to buy an apartment in Beijing, it turns out none of those are realistic (zh).
China: Mao and textbook
Picking up the discussion from Peking Duck on the purging Mao from history book, Frog in a Well explains that the history book revision project is to change the historical perspective from a leader-oriented perspective to people-oriented perspective. And the revised edition is just in Shanghai.
China and Hong Kong: foreign blogger
Richard in Peking Duck raises a question concerning the suspected Sex and Shanghai hoax: Are the BBS forums in China really erupting in flames over the dastardly foreigner, or is this a false image that somehow got reported as gospel, and then got blown up out of all proportion by...
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