Chinese Man Seeking Overdue Wages, Kills Himself, Injures 7 in Explosion
on January 18, 2013
A man in south China’s Guangdong Province ignited explosives on his body, killing himself and injuring seven others, official media said.
Economists React: China GDP Growth Hits 7.9% in Fourth Quarter
on January 18, 2013
Chinese growth is likely to stabilize around 8% this year after a more than two-year slowdown.
Economists React: China's GDP Growth Hits 7.9% in Fourth Quarter
on January 18, 2013
Chinese growth is likely to stabilize around 8% this year after a more than two-year slowdown.
China’s Urban Billion
on January 18, 2013
Lurking silently behind practically every story on Chinese economic growth over the last thirty years has been the country’s unprecedented shift from being an overwhelmingly rural society to what is now a largely urban one, with almost 700 million urban residents now outnumbering their rural counterparts.
The Drums of War: China and Japan Square Up
on January 17, 2013
Watch Chinese TV these days and you might conclude that the outbreak of war with Japan over what it calls the Senkaku and China the Diaoyu islands is imminent.
In China, Can Pollution Spur Media Transparency?
on January 17, 2013
The Chinese press often puts the best spin on Beijing's pollution problem, questioning the accuracy of air-quality measurements and dismissing concerns as "fog."
An Alternative Top Ten
Chinese Independent Films of 2012
on January 17, 2013
Most accounts of the last year in Chinese cinema are dominated by films that were made for the ever-expanding domestic box office, and the local film industry’s struggle for screen time in competition with Hollywood imports.
Their Horizons Widening, China’s Web Users Look Abroad — And Want More
on January 16, 2013
Last week, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt urged North Korean leaders to embrace the Internet. Only a small proportion of that country’s 24 million people can access the World Wide Web, and the majority of the 1.5 million mobile phones there belong to political and military elites.
Hong Kong’s Bard of the Everyday
A Remembrance: Leung Ping-kwan (1949-2013)
on January 16, 2013
I have your words, that you put down on paper
but nothing at hand to return, so I write down
papaya. I cut one open: so many dark points, so many undefined things
On Sunday, January 6, when Leung Ping-kwan, author of these lines, passed away, Hong Kong lost one of its best voices. A film and literary critic, a university professor, a writer, a photographer, most of all a poet of course, and a wonderful human being, PK, as he was affectionately called, or Ye Si, as he signed his verses, was also a very cosmopolitan man.
Analysis: New China Leaders Must
on January 16, 2013
Xiang Songzuo, the Agricultural Bank of China's chief economist says “stabilizing growth is a pre-condition for delivering on reform.”