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“He was already dead by the time that I arrived,” a Chinese friend explained to me. “I rode my bicycle as fast as I could to the countryside to see the execution but in the end, I only heard the gun shot.” My friend was recounting to me the story from her hometown of a young man who had [...]
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China Takes a Whack at Corruption — It appears that the CCP is becoming more serious about fighting corruption in China. In a post entitled China Declares War on an Old Nemesis, I discuss the firing of 12 local officials in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake as well [...]
For months, my friends and students in China have been accusing the world, and especially the United States, of trying to inject politics into the 2008 Olympics Games.Those who have dared to mention to mention the words Tibet’ and ‘Olympics’ in the same sentence are accused of mixing the sacred with the profane. The Olympics Games [...]
If there is one thing that the Communist Party cannot be accused of, it is inefficiency. Just 41 days after the deadly earthquake in China’s Sichuan province, CNN reports that the anti-corruption arm of the Chinese government has announced that 12 officials have been fired “for dereliction of duty and misuse of earthquake relief.” Just 12, [...]
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China Vs. Barack Obama – An article that I wrote on Tuesday entitled Is China Ready for Barack Obama? has been the focus of much attention in the blogosphere this week. Unfortunately, it has also been the focus of some well known racist websites in the United States. What do you think [...]
“She had small herpes on her hands and her feet,” was how a Chinese student recently informed me that her niece had just a few days ago contracted the Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease, also known as EV71. ”She is OK now,” my student explained. “We took her to the hospital on the first day so the doctors were able to treat her.” My [...]
“I don’t have a problem with black people,” a Chinese student recently stated in one of my classes. “It’s just that I don’t understand their language or their culture very well.” We were talking about the U.S. Democratic nominee Barack Obama who could become America’s first African American president in September if he can defeat the Republican nominee John [...]
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– This week, I wrote about ambitious regulations handed down from Beijing that are designed to ensure that new construction in Sichuan meets certain ‘earthquake resistant’ standards. But will Beijing be able to enforce the new policies and why are they not applying these regulations to other earthquake prone [...]
A few months ago, I wrote an article entitled Is Yao Ming a Sellout? in which I discussed the Chinese born NBA star’s unpopularity among many in his home country. Yao Ming has often been criticized for not having given enough back to China. Apparently, the 2 million dollars that Yao Ming has promised to donate to the [...]
On Sunday, Chinese Premier Wen JiaBao signed into law regulations that are intended to ensure that new buildings in Sichuan province will not ‘topple’ over again in the event of another earthquake. According to Xinhua, China’s official print news agency, the Chinese government ”put forward special requirements on earthquake-resistance levels of infrastructure construction in the quake-hit regions, including schools [...]
