China News
- China's War On Smog Sparks Conflict Between Beijing And Polluting Hebei - Huffington Post April 1, 2014
- How China Fooled the World - ABC Online April 1, 2014
- Asia stocks mixed after China PMI data, Yellen remarks - CNBC.com April 1, 2014
- China's New Wager: Pulling Energy From the Ocean - Wall Street Journal April 1, 2014
- Leader of China Aims at Military With Graft Case - New York Times April 1, 2014
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
Previous Editions
Articles By: James Jeffrey
A Dress Bespeaks Style and Freedom
When a woman wears a Chinese qipao—pronounced “tee-pow”—people notice its distinctive design. A tight-fitting dress that usually falls above the knees or ankles, the close fitted neck and buttons for doing it up along one side of the body make the qipao unique. Although a dress with traditional roots, Chinese women haven’t always been permitted to wear it.
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.
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.
Village Nightlife Minus the Nightclub
With music blaring from speakers connected to a laptop and strobe lights flashing, women lined up facing the same direction in four evenly spaced rows. Dancing in unison under the night sky, they stepped right, spun around, and put a hand out to the side. Texas-style line dancing? Not by a long shot.
The Poet and the Dragon Boat Festival
The poetry of Walt Whitman has lasted more than 150 years. The poetry of Shakespeare more than 400. Both are outdone by the Chinese poet Qu Yuan, who wrote more than 2,000 years ago and is still remembered in China where a major national holiday, the Dragon Boat Festival, is held annually in his honor.
Waking Up to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square
Sunrise, June 3: A phalanx of People’s Liberation Army soldiers marched in quick step from Beijing’s Forbidden City, escorting the Chinese national flag onto the broad expanse of Tiananmen Square. Despite the early hour, thousands of onlookers watched as the crack, green-suited honor guard hoisted the colors.
Religion May Provide Anchor for Chinese Lives
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, like Christianity in general, appears to be endorsed by the Chinese Communist Party’s rule. Yet some Christians can still be subjected to harassment and aren’t free to worship, and what’s permissible is based on a stark line drawn by Chinese authorities between official and non-official churches—even within the same denomination.
Reflections on Pursuing the Dragon
He looked back at me seeming taken aback, his hair disheveled, his face scruffy and his eyes wild. Yet it was only my reflection in the mirror. The face of a man who’d spent more than a month in China as part of a University of Texas-Austin Maymester program.
