Man Who Had Mother Executed Wants Tomb Honored
on March 5, 2013
The 60-year-old Zhang Hongbing, who was among the most radical Red Guards during the tumultuous 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, describes his life as one full of regret.
What Do You Know About China’s Politics?
on March 5, 2013
The Liang Hui or “Two Sessions”—the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—are the most crowded, most covered, and probably most hilarious annual political events in China. Every March, thousands of “peoples representatives” to the NPC and members of the CPPCC gather in Beijing, and this year the nationalist state-run newspaper Global Times sent its reporters into the streets to ask random foreigners living in Beijing about their basic knowledge of China’s politics.
‘Zombies’ and ‘Reincarnation’
Why It’s So Hard to Take a Census in Weibo Nation
on March 4, 2013
Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, announced on February 20 that it had surpassed half a billion users—more people than live in South America, and approximately the population of North America. Thickly-settled Europe edges out Weibo by about 230,000, but the micro-blogging platform blows away Australia in this regard. In any event, we are talking about a membership on the order of continents—a remarkable fact, given that, unlike Facebook, its usership is almost exclusively Chinese.
China’s Frills and Posh Market Springs a Leak
on March 4, 2013
Imagine a luxury goods shopper so confident and flush with cash that one day he walks into a Shanghai handbag shop, flashes 300,000 yuan, and waltzes out with almost every bag in stock.
That’s what happened last year at a Prada store where Benny Lu worked as a clerk. The customer “entered the shop and pointed to the shelves,” she recalls. “Then he said, ‘Except this one and that one, pack all the others.’”
This kind of price-is-no-object customer, however, is becoming increasingly rare at luxury retailers in Shanghai and across China.
China Criticized over Tiger Farms and Illegal Ivory
on March 2, 2013
China is under pressure to regulate its rampant trade in illegal ivory and tiger parts ahead of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), opening this weekend in Bangkok.
It has also been accused of quietly stimulating domestic markets for tiger skins and body parts, with more than 5,000 captive-bred tigers held in Chinese farms and zoos.
Poison Eaters of Gansu Province
on March 2, 2013
Barely any rainfall on a bone-dry landscape has always made crop farming in the province of Gansu a rough gamble between the sky and local irrigation policies. But now, farmers reap only sorrow from fields that experts say are severely contaminated with cadmium and other heavy metals.
Infographic: 35 Countries That Rely On China
on March 1, 2013
An infographic from Bloomberg shows 35 countries whose exports to China constitute at least 15% of their total exports.
The Cold War Meets Taiwan
on March 1, 2013
James R. Holmes looks at the applicability of a Cold War analogy in regards to U.S.-China and China-Taiwan relations.
Secretary Of State John Kerry On China
on March 1, 2013
At Secretary of State Kerry's confirmation hearing he stressed more on coordination rather than confrontation in foreign relations, especially when it came to China.
No Closer to the Chinese Dream?
<p>The “Southern Weekly” Editorials—Original and Censored</p>
on March 1, 2013
2013 began dramatically in China with a standoff between journalists and state propaganda authorities over a drastically rewritten New Year’s editorial at the Southern Weekly newspaper.
