Tag Archives: Nanjing

Urban redevelopment: a city’s life and death

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest is taking us through various aspects of China’s urbanization process. Zhang … Continue reading

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Impressions of Japan

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. After anti-Japanese demonstrations fired off around China, this week’s digest proposes to take a … Continue reading

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Guangzhou pays best

The front page of the New Express (新快报) from Guangzhou today reports on new statistics released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics showing that Guangzhou in 2011 had the highest average salary among 22 provincial capitals and four municipalities in China, namely … Continue reading

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Tears in the rain

The Yangtse Evening Post remembers the Nanjing Massacre and ignores Guangzhou’s Asian Para Games.

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A Nanjing without news kiosks

A Nanjing newsstand (see story #11 ) Nanjing has decided that news kiosks are a blight on the city. Erected on the roadway, they create yet another unnecessary obstacle to the growing number of cars on the streets. Moved to … Continue reading

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Proper escalator etiquette

The Modern Express can’t find anything newsworthy to feature on the front page.

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Lightning strikes Nanjing

Two street-cleaners killed in Nanjing.

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Spot the newspaper that reported the Nanjing factory explosion

One paper prints a huge picture that no other does.

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The Chinese Internet reports on Nanjing factory explosion

Old and new media reporting on the deadly blast at a chemicals factory in Nanjing.

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Bawang Group in license-sharing scandal

An interesting headline is related to the Bawang Chinese herbal shampoo scandal. The license for the product is for a product called Litao anti-hair loss shampoo (丽涛防脱洗发液), a product that had already expired, according to the State Food and Drug Administration website.

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