Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

Meg over at Violet Eclipse gives us this recent photo-post that shows the eerie side of the off-season in Chinese amusement parks. Funny stuff.

Google Images China censors hundreds of thousands to millions of photos – from friend to foe. For example, no single photo shows for politician and “friend” Deng Xiaoping in a search for his name, 邓小平. China’s current leader Hu Jintao gets the same massive censorship treatment, as a search for 胡锦涛 reveals. This may well be more than a plain domain blacklist, because it’s of such broad scale.*

The latest post from our Lost Laowai blog is one of great fury and furious anger at China's population's apparently inability to get involved when someone needs help as well as a general detachment from the fact that the world is a shared place and not just for them to stand in doorways as the rest of us try to get by.

An unsourced map shows China's railway network plans for the year 2020... with an intriguing route that passes from Xinjiang into Tibet and then onto Yunnan. Behold, the future!

The Chinabounder's response to Chinese professor and blogger Zhang Jiehai's witch hunt for the Sex In Shanghai author's identity.

One of my students gave a short speech yesterday on the person who had most influenced her life. Like many others she named her mother as her personal hero. It was a great impromptu speech and I applauded her for her candor about one issue in particular: She lauded her mother for giving up a high paying managerial job to take care of her as she grew up, but lamented that her father was

Jeremiah's got a great post over at the Granite Studio discussing a recent story in The Nationa and its wonky history. If you've any interest in Chinese history, specifically Qing Dynasty and Western Imperialism - check it out.

“My mother has never told me that she loves me,” explained a 23-year-old Chinese friend of mine recently. “She doesn’t have to say the words because she shows me her love through her actions.” Such perceptions on the meaning of love are common in China...

Photo-journalist Tom Carter's China photos. Includes a lot of great photos of the recent snowstorm in northeast China, including a great shot of "Bag-head."