Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

Ma Jian, author of Beijing Coma, a new novel about the Tiananmen Square "incident", tears China's literary elite a new one in this scathing editorial asking where have all the good Chinese writers gone - the ones that marched in 1989 and weren't afraid to speak their hearts, minds and souls.

Chinese writer Ma Jian sums up the importance of the Olympics to the Chinese government.

Chinese Taikonauts want to start a chapter of the Communist Party in space. And they want to join the International Space Station. ImageThief is all over this one.

Floorplanner.com, a very handy online tool to create and share interactive floor plans for your house or office space has just released a Chinese version. It's FREE for personal use :-) Check it out at www.floorplanner.cn

Chinese gathered to see Zhang Tong, the first Chinese man to go into space without being chained inside the rocket (in case it's not immediately obvious - this is satirical).

China's three-man spacecraft shifted from an oval orbit to a more stable circular orbit 213 miles above Earth on Friday in preparation for the country's first attempt at a spacewalk.

TALK ABOUT FOREPLAY! A news story describing a successful launch of China's long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground.

TPD discusses China sharing more than their holiday spirit with the US. With ever-increasing need for coal, massive toxic clouds are on the fast winds across the Pacific - and unlike the Great Wall, can be seen from space.

The Duck brings up an interesting point about how environmental problems are quickly reaching the breaking point when people are going to stand up and say "I'm mad as hell and I ain't going to take it anymore!"

Two Chinese, one man and one woman, whose names have been withheld, have signed on to pay $200,000 to take a 3.5 hour space flight on Virgin Galactic next year.

Virgin Galactic plans to ..