Category Archives: Newspapers

The tallest man in the world

Posted on 2007-07-13 by banyue

Bao Xishun (鲍喜顺) is 236 cm (7.7 feet) tall, and was named the tallest man in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2005.

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Asia Times: guilty of plagiarism?

Posted on 2007-07-13 by maya

She’s not the only one working in the “grey” economy Recently, your correspondent wrote a Danwei post about a study measuring the size of China’s “grey” economy, and its failure to take into account certain types of “grey” income earned … Continue reading →

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Training a new generation of political cartoonists

Posted on 2007-07-12 by Joel Martinsen

A cartoon from Southern Weekend (南方周末).

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Death sentence and Transformers

Posted on 2007-07-11 by banyue

Headlines from Beijing Youth Daily for 11 July, 2007.

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Small Swords

Posted on 2007-07-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Nice color scheme Small Swords is a promising new online magazine, produced in Shanghai. It’s an elegant and slightly eccentric collection of photos, essays and articles most of which are about Shanghai and China, although there are also stories such … Continue reading →

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Nuclear fusion and motorbike business

Posted on 2007-07-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Yin Mingshan Two articles in The Hindu by Pallavi Aiyar well worth a read: China’s road king A profile of Lifan Group’s founder and President Yin Mingshan: In 1992 he was able to start a small motorbike spare parts company … Continue reading →

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Should students decide whether their classmates are poor?

Posted on 2007-07-05 by Joel Martinsen

China Youth Daily (中国青年报) reports that the Ministry of Education (教育部) wants college students to evaluate the economic circumstances of their classmates.

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Harmony means everyone gets a passing grade

Posted on 2007-07-02 by Joel Martinsen

Article from China Youth Daily (中国青年报) about a teacher punished for failing plagiarized papers.

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How to donate money to a bank

Posted on 2007-06-29 by Joel Martinsen

In Southern Weekly (南方周末), Hong Er (弘二) writes about his difficulties closing a Minsheng Bank (民生银行) account.

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China’s unfavorable copyright imbalance

Posted on 2007-06-27 by maya

GAPP just released a report on the state of China’s publishing industries in 2006. The report concluded that, while China’s copyright-related trade has made strides, the “unfavorable copyright trade imbalance” hasn’t fundamentally reversed. In support of this conclusion, the report … Continue reading →

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