As the December 18 anniversary of 30 years of economic reform in China approaches, there is no better time to reflect back on changes in China’s media. In an interview that appeared in yesterday’s edition of the Economic Observer, journalism professor Chen Lidan (陈力丹), of Renmin University, discusses his personal experiences as a press worker and researcher.

In a toxic era, a Hangzhou restaurant pursues purity. A mouth-watering read!

QQ, for those that don't know, is China's most popular IM software. Usage is so widespread that among the younger generation you're near as likely to get someone's QQ # as you are their mobile number.

I’ve noticed at least three different waves of local propaganda since we’ve been here.

A general call to all HHR'ers to share their thoughts, ideas, dreams and aspirations for the Hao Hao Report. What can we improve, what can we add, what can we take away? Check out this forum post and leave some feedback.

Will China one day learn to be a “civilized” country to match its rising economic power and aspriation to be a power on the world stage? I wonder.

Months later, the problem of Internet addiction in China became a personal problem for me when my apartment was robbed. The police determined that the camera I lost (with 500 photos from a recent trip to Chengdu), as well as a computer and a Gerber knife had probably been pawned by local schoolboys to fund their Internet game addictions.

Over the past year The Library Project donated over sixty libraries to rural elementary schools throughout China. 14,581 elementary school students benefited from over 57,200 children’s books...

Ying-chun Hsieh is one of the recipients of Life Sustainability Awards 2008. This article provides a short presentation of his sustainable architectural work, focusing in particular on the rehabilitation project he led with the Thao’s tribe in Nantou County (Taiwan) after the 9/21 earthquake in 1999.

"I just read a forum post where several expats in Shanghai were saying that 10,000 RMB per month is not enough for an expat to live here comfortably. That 10K RMB pay is on top of what’s typically included in an expat package (rent and flights home paid for, sometimes more).

So I did a bit of calculation of my own to see what my monthly cost of living is like. Here’s a breakdown."