Stories from 18 January 2007
China: disclosure of information “in principle”
China Media Project reports on the national ordinance on information disclosure passed on 17 of Jan by China's top administrative authority, the State Council.
China: Starbucks ain't the problem with the Forbidden City
Imagethief discusses about the recent attack at Starbucks at the Forbidden City by a CCTV celebrity Rui Chenggang: The nice thing about singling out the easy target of Starbucks is that it plays on cheap, nationalist sentiment while completely avoiding a related but much larger and more important discussion about...
China: is Chinese peasant stupid
Zeng jingyan wrote an article in response to a famous rural reformist Wen Tiejun's comment that once land is privatized, peasants in China are going to sell their land and results in social instability and urban slum. She asks is Chinese peasant stupid? (zh)
China: smoking ban
Dan Washburn in Shanghaiist reports about the smoking ban policy in major cities : If “World Cities” are banning smoking, then China must follow. It’s also relatively easy – much easier than say lowering toxic emissions or letting people CENSORED their government.
China: Little Africa in Downtown Guangzhou
A piece written by Bruce Humes in DANWEI which highlights information deleted by a Chinese business digest, Cankao Xiaoxi, in the translation of Brandon Zatt’s article on the African trading community in Guangzhou.
China: Chinese sense of humor? You've got to be joking
Raymond zhou translates Wang Xiao feng's article in China Daily on “Chinese sense of humor? You've got to be joking”.
China: Spring Festival travel
Lyn Jeffery from Virtual China notes that the QQ BBS editors put out a request(zh) about a week ago asking people to send in their Spring Festival travel stories from now until 1/25. He also translates a few responses in his post.
