Many Asian Nations Believe That a War With China Is Looming
on July 15, 2014
A majority in the Asian countries polled in a new Pew study say they fear a looming military conflict with China.
Chinese Oil Rig Near Vietnam to Be Moved
on July 15, 2014
The China National Petroleum Corporation, a state-owned company, said the billion-dollar rig, known as HD 981, would be relocated to an area around the Qiongdongnan basin, closer to Hainan Island, a southern province of China, and apparently in undisputed waters.
Learn English, Chinese Style: Illustration 17
on July 15, 2014
China Tells U.S. To Stay Out of South China Seas Dispute
on July 15, 2014
China told the United States on Tuesday to stay out of disputes over the South China Sea and leave countries in the region to resolve problems themselves, after Washington said it wanted a freeze on stoking tension.
China’s Campaign Against Corruption Is Huge. Will It Do Any Good?
on July 15, 2014
President Xi has netted more “tigers,” or top-level officials, than his predecessor Hu Jintao did during his entire decade in power.
The Forbidden Game
on July 15, 2014
In China, just because something is banned, doesn't mean it can't boom. Statistically, zero percent of the Chinese population plays golf, still known as the "rich man’s game" and considered taboo. Yet China is in the midst of a golf boom—hundreds of new courses have opened in the past decade, despite it being illegal for anyone to build them. Award-winning journalist Dan Washburn charts a vivid path through this contradictory country by following the lives of three men intimately involved in China's bizarre golf scene. We meet Zhou, a peasant turned golf pro who discovered the game when he won a job as a security guard at one of the new, exclusive clubs and who sees himself entering the emerging Chinese middle class as a result; Wang, a lychee farmer whose life is turned upside down when a massive, top-secret golf resort moves in next door to his tiny village; and Martin, a Western executive maneuvering through China’s byzantine and highly political business environment, ever watchful for Beijing's "golf police." The Forbidden Game is a rich and arresting portrait of the world’s newest superpower and three different paths to the new Chinese Dream. —Oneworld Publications
Book Review:
Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times (July 11, 2014)
Edward Chancellor, Wall Street Journal (July 6, 2014)
Publishers Weekly (July 2014)
Steven Shwankert, The Beijinger (June 27, 2014)
Christina Larsen, Businessweek (June 25, 2014)
Simon Kuper, New Statesman (June 20, 2014)
The Economist (June 14, 2014)
John D. Van Fleet, Asian Review of Books (June 11, 2014)
Silencing a Health Reformer’s Voice
A Champion of the Public, the Pregnant, and the Press Loses His One-Man Battle
on July 15, 2014
Dr. Liao Xinbo is struggling to square his enormous popularity and thirst for healthcare reform with a recent demotion that, in his words, marked the culmination of his frustrated work life.
Liao served as Deputy Director of the Guangdong Province Health and Family Planning Department for a decade. But in April, superiors stripped the 58-year-old of his administrative responsibilities and moved him to a desk in the inspection office.
China TV Anchor Known For Fatriotic Views is Held in Corruption Probe
on July 14, 2014
For years, TV news anchor Rui Chenggang has been a China booster and an icon for China’s global “soft power” push. But in a development that’s shocked the nation, Rui has been detained on suspicion of corruption, the scourge of the system he has tirelessly touted.
Chinese Banks Halt Experimental Yuan-Remittance Program
on July 14, 2014
China’s major banks have halted an experimental program, sanctioned by the country’s central bank, that helped citizens transfer large sums overseas despite government capital controls, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
All Aboard: China’s Railway Dream
on July 14, 2014
At Asia’s biggest rail cargo base in Chengdu in south-west China, the cranes are hard at work, swinging containers from trucks onto a freight train. The containers are filled with computers, clothes, even cars.