Former China president Jiang Zemin made a surprise appearance in Beijing last month and is certainly a complicating factor in the ongoing succession games, tells political analyst Victor Shih in Today Online.Read More →
Author Zhang Lijia was one of the first who helped to write stories about the blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng for Western media. Like the story in 2002 for Newsweek, reposted on her weblog. “We have to fight for our rights ourselves.” Read More →
Time reviews author Paul French’s successful “Midnight in Peking” and suggests the author has solved a 75-year old gruesome murder.Read More →
Paul French’s bestseller “Midnight in Peking” was already much praised, and got now also a raving review in the Wall Street Journal.
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The successful book “Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China’ by the author Paul French will be turned into a TV drama, according to Forbes.Read More →
Poetry had slowly disappeared from her live, writes author Zhang Lijia on her weblog, until she rediscovered her love to poetry on a recent gathering at the Bookworm in Beijing.Read More →
Internet search engine Baidu is now the most-wanted employer for graduates from Beijing’s top universities, writes their director communication Kaiser Kuo on their weblog Baidu Beat. Job search engine Zhaopin listed the internet company as the 2011 Best Employer.Read More →
Author Zhang Lijia attended a very popular play in Beijing “Life Attitude of Two Dogs”, and wonders on her weblog if she was really able to get the hidden meaning of the interactive play, if there was any.Read More →
The story China’s economy is a bubble that is about to burst, exists as long as the country’s economy started to boom. Economic analyst Arthur Kroeber explains in NPR why we do not need to worry right now and why signs of bubbles are part of the game.Read More →
The political trouble surrounding political big-shot Bo Xi-lai has still not been solved, tells political and financial analyst Victor Shih in Business Week. More than a week after he sent 100 police men to surround the US consulate in Chengdu to fetch Wang Lijun, Beijing still has to act.Read More →
A fuming Paul French reports on his website about the upcoming destruction of the Beijing house of Liang Sicheng, a famous architect. Paul French: I cannot bring myself to write too much about the destruction at Chinese New Year of Liang Sicheng’s house. Liang (below) was an incredible architect famously offeredRead More →
Apple, and its supplier Foxconn, are in the middle of revolts by workers, who are standing up for their rights. Former factory worker Zhang Lijia supports their actions, and hope China’s government will continue to support those workers, she writes in The Guardian.Read More →