All non-Chinese people will get free access to 12 major tourist sites in Anyang city, Henan province, under a new policy, which the country's citizens believe "fawns over foreigners".
The program, which will continue until the end of the year, is designed to attract more foreign tourists, who are smaller in number than domestic travelers to the city, the Anyang tourism bureau said.
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A short and sweet Danwei interview with Caijing's new English editor, Li Xin. Discussion centres around censorship in China and the new English edition of the often hard-hitting Caijing.
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Found this classified on a Guangzhou social networking website, and found it a little confusing.
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Today is Igor Stravinsky’s birthday.
How do I know this? Is it that I have a penchant for hoarding useless factoids? Perhaps it’s been hardwired into my brain by my old music teacher, who mocked my lack of talent by calling me “Stravinsky Stu”.
Read more »Explore the mysteries and treasures of prerevolutionary Beijing with Derek Sandhaus's colorful Tales of Old Peking. He delivers an informative and entertaining historical collage that includes riveting first-hand accounts dating back to the early nineteenth century as well as Western representations of the city occasionally colored by "Yellow Peril" paranoia and Orientalist fantasy.
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According to the latest IResearch release of the "China Online Game Industry Development Report", it shows that because of China's online game industry diversification, platformization, and constant user groups developments, the market will grow further.
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As you may or may not have heard, an apartment building (luckily still unoccupied and under construction) in the compound “Lotus Riverside” in Shanghai’s Minhang district fell over in one big piece on Saturday. How does this happen? Aren’t there inspectors to prevent this kind of thing?
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Well, my mom has not had to wait out in a park with my CV yet to try to find me a mate. That being said, I'm 28 years old and still not married...so if she were Chinese, she might start considering it. Every Sunday in parks all over China, concerned parents (and some grandparents) meet with the CVs and personal profiles of their single children and try to find a suitable match for them.
Read more »Buying a loaf from Tesco will never be the same again: now it comes with harmonious filling, anti-western topping, a sprinkling of chipped shoulder, and a smiling Tibetan waving a Chinese flag.
Read more »Tech business organizations around the world have signed onto an extraordinary letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, asking for executive clemency from China’s Green Dam-Youth Escort software...
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Shanghaiist shows an entry to the Expo's newest photo competition which puts the mascot Haibao in the middle of Easter Island. Unfortunately, the caption reads: "Haibao Appears at England's Stonehenge"
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Tomorrow it’s July 1st, our last public holiday until October. Or, if you are concerned for titles: ‘Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day’. To celebrate our fantastic city, why not pay homage to where we have been, are, and where we are headed.
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An Australian man has appeared in a Hong Kong Magistrates Court charged with the murder of a taxi driver.
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From NetEast: June 27th 5:30 am Shanghai Minhang district a 13 story building in “Lotus River Garden” Residential collapsed, resulting one death. The building was unoccupied and still under construction.
Read more »Sometimes I feel, probably wrongly, like most of the people freaking out about #gfw and tonight's possible Google block are foreigners. This article, about 1000+ death threats that have been called into the makers of the Green Dam software, which I presume are mostly Chinese, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. We ARE the world, and we are pissed.
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I saw a movie years ago called La Ciudad. A series of vignettes about Hispanic immigrants in the US. In one, a new arrival goes home with a girl and in the morning wants to be sweet and go buy breakfast. Coming out of the store he looks up at the identical Robert Moses built NY projects and realizes he'll never find his way back and the girl with think he ran.
Read more »It’s never easy to predict how one country’s stars will fair in foreign markets (David Hasselhoff in Germany?), and the Chinese market can be tricky. Something about Michael Jackson, though, hit all the right notes in China. I do wonder what, exactly, it was.
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David Bandurski at the China Media Project looks at this article from Guangming Daily about US involvement in Iran.
Read more »I was overly optimistic towards the future of Chinese football players. Though this year saw a few of them found jobs outside the country, almost all footballers still find their rights trampled by the country’s backward transfer rules.
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I love Paul's articles because they make me feel smarter. This article digs deeper into the employment problems facing recent college graduates and finds the situation for men and women is neither fair nor balanced, and starts to get into the troubling effects: cooking skills being listed on resume, racy photos attached to CVs, etc.
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