Frank Ching: China’s cultural soul being sacrificed on altar of growth
From the Japan Times: As the Chinese economy continues to power ahead, everyone in the country is pleased with the visible improvement in standards of living, but very few people are counting the cost...
View ArticleA Forbidden Garden Restored – Zha Jianying
In Metropolis Magazine, writer Zha Jianying writes about the reconstruction of a garden in the Forbidden City and the challenges of protecting China’s cultural heritage: At a May ceremony inside the...
View ArticleNew Law to Keep China’s Wall Looking Great – Peter Ford
From The Christian Science Monitor For the first time Friday, it will be a crime to damage China’s ancient Great Wall. For a national symbol so intimately linked to China’s international image, the...
View Article500,000 Yuan Fine for Great Wall Destroyers – China.org
From China.org: Hongji Landbridge Investment Development Inc., a construction firm in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was slapped with a 500,000 yuan (US$63,776) fine for deliberately...
View ArticleShowcasing the Pain of Nanjing – Mark Magnier
The Los Angeles Times profiles the museum honoring victims of the Nanking Massacre, which has been renovated in time for the 70th anniversary: With growing wealth and power comes a push to better...
View ArticleAs Winter Nears, Beijing is Blanketed in Cabbage
The New York Times reports on this year’s stockpile run on cabbage in Beijing, an annual occurrence fueled by elderly resident’s memories of food shortages during their youth: In a city crowded with...
View ArticleGilded Mao Statue Marks Birthday Bash
Chris Buckley reports for The New York Times that “the Communist revolutionary who rhapsodized the Chinese people as ‘poor and blank,'” Mao Zedong, is being commemorated this month with a golden statue...
View ArticleMao Zedong Reinvented at Memorial Museum
As China gears up for Mao Zedong’s lavish 120th birthday anniversary celebrations, Denise Ho and Christopher Young explain his rebranding from “revolutionary” to “incorruptible government official” at...
View ArticleSon of Purged Zhao Ziyang Tells of China’s ‘Shame’
The South China Morning Post reports that Zhao Wujun, son of the former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang who died under house arrest in 2005, is attempting to restore his father’s legacy: The man who...
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