Danwei.org has more details on just who has been hurting China’s feelings, including a list and map of the culprits.

Reading the People’s Daily is a bit like recess in elementary school. Someone always gets their feelings hurt. And more often than not, that someone is the “Chinese people.” For reasons that have defied analysis, Chinese state press wordsmiths and government spokespeople love to say that acts by other countries or world leaders which …

From Michael Elliott, a look at what Deng Xiaoping means to today’s China. He writes:

I’d give anything to have sat down with a tiny — barely 5 feet tall — bridge-playing chain smoker who used the spittoon liberally and had a weakness for croissants. And I’d ask him: Did you have any idea what you were doing?

A group of overseas Chinese including novelist Ha Jin and dissent physicist Fang Lizhi have signed a letter in support of Charter 08, the pro-democracy manifesto issued this week by several hundred mainland writers, lawyers and activists. Here’s a link to a Chinese version over the support letter by the overseas Chinese, and also our …

The latest statics on Chinese exports have economists worried. How worried? Take a look at this new report from Ben Simpfendorfer, chief China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland:

Exports fell -2.2%YoY versus +19.2%YoY the previous month. This is a shock figure. I had expected export growth to collapse in the final two months, but

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The detention of two prominent intellectuals in Beijing this week, which Simon discusses below, was touched off by the release of “Charter 08,” a human rights manifesto signed by more than 300 Chinese scholars, activists, lawyers and retired officials. China scholar Perry Link has produced an English translation of the document, which is …

The statement below is from Human Rights in China. Not a good sign, though not exactly surprising either. The questions is, as HRIC notes, whether this is the start of a more general battening down of the hatches ahead of the economic storm that is brewing. More on that in the next few days.

For Immediate Release

Date: December 9,

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Beijing has announced it is launching a four-month joint investigation by nine government departments into illegal food additives. The vice minister of health said the government is taking this step in response to the tainted baby formula scandal. So far six children have died and nearly 300,000 were sickened from drinking powdered milk …

Our colleague Lin Yang writes:

Fifty seven 57 year old Sun Fawu has been spent years attempting to obtain compensation for houses and farmlands lost to the coal mining industry in his village. His efforts to seek redress through China’s arcane petitioning system totally failed to get any compensation for his fellow villagers. Not

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From TIME’s home office in New York City comes a collection of top 10 lists to crush all other top 10 lists. There’s even a list of the 10 most popular top 10 lists, in case you’re feeling overwhelmed.

China made its way onto the top 10 news stories (here and here), the top 10 scientific discoveries, top 10 religion stories, top 10 …

When it comes to Euope and China lately, the hits just keep coming. Here’s an announcement from the Heinrich Boll Stiftung, one of the German political party-related donor groups among whom the country’s foreign aid budget is divided. Henrich Boll is affiliated with the Green Party:

Petra-Kelly-Prize 2008 – Zhang Sizhi honored by the

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What does it take to get rich in China? Brains, tenacity, a good idea and luck all help. But to get really really rich it appears that mommy and daddy can offer the biggest help of all, especially if they’re government officials. According to a piece (the Chinese version is here) carried by Xinhua, the state-run news service, more than …