Thanks to China Digital Times for the photo; the Chinese reads: Forward!
With the election of Barrack Obama as president (nonpartisan moment: Hurray!), many diplomats, academics, journalists and other asorted ne’er-do-wells are attempting to figure out how U.S. policy will change under the next president and who will do the …
The conventional wisdom on Sino-U.S. relations is that Chinese leaders prefer Republican presidents who would be less inclined to start trade fights or needle over human rights issues. Of course the leadership never explicitly says this. And the tough China rhetoric of presidential candidates like Bill Clinton and George W. Bush evolved …
Here’s our latest look at the continuing food safety crisis in China.
Spare a thought for the punters on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The market was already down by around two thirds for the year when the financial tsunami hit. Now, as other markets are beginning to stabilize or in fact recover some ground, it continues to head for the bottom. Here’s a comparison of its performance over the last year with …
Forgot to do a shout out for our piece on what keeps China’s leaders awake at night, here. If this story is any indication, the police ae alrady gearing up for further unrest. One thing I didn’t get into was graduate unemployment, an issue that has been out there for some time. With graduates pouring out of the many new universities set …
Translating into Chinese is often as much of an art as a science and often produces some pretty whimsical results. That’s true of all translation of course, but because of the gulf between sound-conveying letters and Chinese ideographs, which convey meaning, have a sound attached to them and sometimes also hint at the sound. Names are …
It is rather disarming to meet Jet Li in the flesh. You think of all the times you’ve seen him on screen, beating people to a bloody mess, and you muse on the fact that he could knock you out with a single well aimed chop, should the interview go badly. But there he is before you—slim, smiling and given to speaking about karma, …
One of the dramatic tales to come out of this spring’s Sichuan earthquake was the fate of the pandas. The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda was near the epicenter of the magnitude 8.0 quake, and the home of China’s panda recovery efforts was badly damaged and blocked from the outside world for several days. …
A new site calling itself Chinasmack (www.chinasmack.com) sets out to translate the latest controversies preoccupying Chinese netizens into English. Like the internet in China itself, the variety of maerial on Chinasmack varies hugely, ranging from the completely silly (man dressed as a mummy on the Shanghai subway! Pictures, too!) to …
Beijing is apparently ignoring the Dalai Lama’s comments about giving up on making a breakthrough and Chinese officials said yesterday that the next round of talks between the two sides would go ahead as planned. This is in accordance with their apparent long-term game plan, to wait until the 73 year old current Dalai Lama, with his …
Our 10 Questions for film director Wayne Wang is out in the current issue of TIME Asia, and online here (this link has been fixed), with an accompanying podcast and photo gallery. 15 years after The Joy Luck Club, Wang is once again telling Chinese-American stories.
Just over a year ago, Austin and I wrote about a bronze horse head from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace that was controversially auctioned off at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. Macau’s casino tycoon Stanley Ho swept it up for $8.84 million and donated it to the state-run Poly museum in Beijing. Now two more of the 12 zodiac animal heads, …
