China News
- China customs 'issue' keeps NZ meat off shelves - Stuff.co.nz May 18, 2013
- Photos of Ai Weiwei's latest work, a response to China's baby milk scandal - Washington Post (blog) May 18, 2013
- Pressured, China Measures Its Impact in Myanmar - New York Times May 18, 2013
- China Arrests Man Over Fake Plane Bomb Threats - ABC News May 18, 2013
- China's Premier to Visit India - VOA - Voice of America May 18, 2013
Recent News
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Austinite Exports Football to China July 23, 2011 03:07
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Redefining the Chinese Beauty Standard July 22, 2011 01:07
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Organic Food is a Luxury in Shanghai July 21, 2011 22:07
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The NFL Tries a Grassroots Approach in China June 28, 2011 18:06
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Heading In A Greener Direction: Jiashan Market June 25, 2011 01:06
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Recent Articles
Half the Sky: A Female Artist in China
Monika Lin has made a name for herself on Moganshan Shanghai art scene with contemporary work that explores the social problems in modern society. Despite government censorship of critical artistic expression, the 33-year-old Chinese-Latino American has lived and worked in China where many of her exhibits have created awareness of gender inequality.
Obesity in the Middle Kingdom
McDonald’s has been a fixture of China’s fast-food scene since 1990. Like many of its competitors, the burger chain has adapted some items to local tastes, like chicken McWings with spicy garlic sauce. But its flagship sandwich, the Big Mac, tastes the same in Beijing as it does in Boston, down to the two meat patties, special sauce and sesame seed bun.
Cracking Down on Schoolhouse Cheats
Stacy is not alone. In 2008 China Youth Daily conducted a survey on 900 college students, 83 percent of whom admitted to cheating on exams. Many Chinese students have cheated often without apparent remorse since they regard their action as necessary to get ahead in China’s highly competitive society.
What Do You Think of America?
According to the 2010 National Population Census of China, 19.3 percent of the world’s population are Chinese citizens. The relationship between the U.S. and China has become increasingly important. So what do China’s approximately 1.4 billion people think about the U.S. and Americans?
Youth Miffed Over Muzzled Microblogs
Twitter might limit social media users to 140 characters, but microbloggers in China face a different order of restriction. Sina Weibo—China’s most popular microblogging platform—functions similarly to Twitter in terms of post-length limitations, but it is also subject to the censorship rules of the Chinese government.
In Search of Old Shanghai
The bartender poured and the lemon peel danced in the cocktail glass, as the six-piece jazz band played “Shanghai at Night”—a tune all the rage in the 1930s—for an audience seeking a sense of Old Shanghai. If anyone could deliver, it’s the Old Jazz Band. Known throughout Shanghai and beyond, the band—average age of 75-years-old—has played the famous Peace Hotel over parts of four decades.
Shanghai’s Booming Business Scene
In the summer of 2010, Trevor Squier and Henry Hu traveled to Shanghai for an MBA program through Boston University. The two spent four months developing a mock business plan to bring customized T-shirts to China’s highly competitive market based on the popular design-to-order U.S. company Threadless.
Down from the Mountain in Rural China
All across China, the government is relocating citizens to ease growing pressures on land use—and often inciting a public outcry. In May, a man from Fujian Province suicide-bombed a government building after officials demolished his business. But in mountainous Zhejiang Province, some citizens are more than glad to be moved closer to villages with higher standards of living.
Illuminating the People Behind the Lightbulbs
When shopping at Home Depot, most Americans don’t give much thought to the origins of the lightbulbs they buy beyond the perhaps half-formed notion that somewhere a giant machine is churning them out at the push of a button. Come to China’s eastern countryside, however, and you’ll find a dramatically different reality within factories like the one at Tai Yang village west of Hangzhou, where workers assemble 300,000 lightbulbs a month—by hand.
Kingdom of Electric Bicycles
In the bike parking lot of Zhang Shan Park Subway Station in Shanghai, the electronic bikes outnumber the regular bikes. There are dozens of them, ranging from brand new and fashionable Giant bikes to old, rusted bikes. No matter their condition, they are a growing trend in China’s changing bike culture.
