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Photo Series: The Unbearable Heaviness of Industry – Zhou Hai
From Zhouhai.com: Industry provides the impetus for social development. The industrial stablishments upon which modern civilization is built-such as steel-making,imposes a heavy toll on those who take...
View ArticleChina to Become a 1960s-developed Nation by 2015 – Shanghai Youth Daily
Some new, weird numbers to chew on. From Shanghai Youth Daily via sina.com.cn, translated by CDT: A recently released paper, China Modernization Report 2007 (中国现代化报告2007), predicts that...
View ArticleA new world with Chinese characteristics – David Gosset
From Asia Times: To maintain equilibrium between the different components of the Chinese world and to ensure that one-fifth of mankind lives in decent material conditions are the two main tasks of...
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Shanghaied Into Modernity – Antoaneta Bezlova
From Asia Times: When one of China’s top leaders in charge of the country’s architectural landscape recently berated Chinese cities for their breathless rush towards modernity, none deserved the...
View ArticleThe Perils of Forced Modernity: China-Tibet, America-Iraq
Jeffrey N Wasserstrom, a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, writes on OpenDemocracy.org: The Chinese government’s plans for the Olympic games did not include a revolt in...
View ArticleWe’ll Always Have Dumplings ….
Returning to Beijing after a few years away, NPR’s Anthony Kuhn reports that traditionally polite questions like “how are you” and “have you eaten” no longer fit the bill. Now his main question is:...
View Article“Five Star Billionaire” And Other Must-Read Books
Tash Aw, a writer born in Taipei who grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to England, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel, “Five Star Billionaire,” a fictional self-help book for...
View ArticleA Mongolian Shaman in Atheist China
The Guardian’s Jonathan Kaiman visits a herder-turned-shaman who acts as a “short cut” between other Inner Mongolians and a way of life that has now been largely swept away. The shaman of Xi Wuqi city...
View ArticleChina Then and Now
Since Deng Xiaoping initiated market reforms over three decades ago, China has transformed from an isolated economic backwater into the world’s second largest economy by nominal GDP. The accompanying...
View ArticleInterview: Jeremy Wallace on the Chinese State’s “Limited, Quantified Vision”
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his new book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China. In a...
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