During the past couple days some China Blog readers have offered a few suggestions. We always love to hear these, though I can’t promise we’ll go along with them. For instance, a regular commenter who goes by the handle “perseverance” suggests we add some posts in Chinese, which would be “an unusual publicity stunt.” I’m afraid that it …

No, this isn’t a story blaming China for global warming. Just a highly alarmed post about the Greenpeace report that just came out about their expedition to the Himalayan glaciers. As you can see from these now and then photos from the Rong Bu Glacier, the change from 1968 to 2007 is deeply disturbing the Greenpeace report (Reuters …

I would have posted the link but the Wall Street Journal, from which this comes, is behind a paywall so here it is. Considering the current worldwide furore over contaminate Chinese food products, this announcement is amazingly timed. Nobody’s perfect of course but the two parties involved-are both well known for their obsessive quality …

Disney Does Songjiang

I know that every parent in the United States has his or her own Holy Sh__! moment when it comes to how deep under the skin American companies get in trying to sell their stuff to children (via their parents). McDonalds, the toy companies, the Cartoon Network, etc etc. Their marketing tactics are, depending on …

Rebiya Kadeer, the Uigher human rights activist, has a piece on the OP-ED page of today’s Wall Street Journal talking about what has happened to her children in Xinjiang since she was released from prison in 2005. She now lives in the United States.
The link is here:
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB118049448867818199.html

Like everybody else, we wrote a piece yesterday about the surprise death penalty handed down to the former head of Chinese Food and Drug Administration, Zheng Xiaoyu. Like most people, too, we concluded that it was a case of shajijinghou(杀鸡警猴) or kill the chicken to warn the monkey, a much quoted piece of Chinese folk wisdom. For …

Blogs have become wildly popular in China, and one of the more interesting is written by a woman who is married to a Chinese American guy—a physician– and lives in the United States. The blog is called “The Shadow in the Water,” and it’s popular because it basically compares and contrasts middle class life in the United States …

From the New York Times, a fascinating story about a neighborhood in Queens where people have decided to learn Mandarin. The reason? To get along with the Chinese community.

Last year I did a piece on the growing popularity of Mandarin. TIME reporters talked to students in London, Phnom Penh and Kentucky, among other places. The chief …

I was in Hong Kong a couple of days ago. It was mainly a business trip but I also managed to hook up with a chef friend named Rolando Schuller who recently opened a new restaurant called Aspasia in a boutique hotel in Kowloon, the Luxe Manor on Kimberely Street. I headed over there on Thursday evening afire with happy anticipation. …

The Guardian had a story over the weekend about a floating menagerie found on the south China coast. An abandoned boat was discovered with thousands of rare animals, the story reported, including 2,720 monitor lizards, 1,130 Brazilian turtles and 31 pangolins, a type of scaly anteater. The sheer numbers and the “Noah’s Ark” touch ensured …

It’s all there in black and white, at least according to this poll. Despite the relative health of the US economy, US citizens seem paranoid when it comes to China.

These are the results of interesting UPI/John Zogby poll of US citizens responding to various questions about China.
Couple of random thoughts: what’s the difference …

Interesting report by Xinhua, China’s national news agency, over the weekend. The story describes how the authorities have decided to suspend work on a $5 billion Maglev train that would have cut journey time between Shanghai and the lake resort city of Hangzhou to around half and hour. I currently takes more than two hours, so it would …

Oops indeed. Just back from a trip in southern China, I see that, as several helpful readers have pointed out, my post a couple of days ago about the new adoption rules was, er, recycled, to put it politely. I had written it on a different computer and thought for some confused reason that it hadn’t been posted. Anyway, I have been …